Sexual harassment

[blpurdom at yahoo.com]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at y..., Susanne Schmid <pigwidgeon37 at y...> wrote:
> You know that in Italy the Supreme Court has
> practically given carte blanche to "touching" bosses?
> As long as he touches her butt (or he breasts) only
> once, and only briefly, it's not sexual harassment.
> BTW, did you know that in Italy, when you are wearing
> tight jeans and somebody rapes you, it is not regarded
> as a rape (Supposing that to get you out of those
> jeans you had to be consenting)?
> And this is NO JOKE!  

I read about this some time ago and forgot about it.  It sounds 
insane, doesn't it?  When our friends Michael Swanwick and Marianne 
Porter took a trip to Italy, all they (well, actually Michael) could 
talk about upon their return were the Italian game shows, the main 
purpose of which seem to be to remove as many garments as possible 
from nubile young girls.  Plus, I had a friend in college who was a 
classics major also and went to Italy on a study program for a 
summer; a professor of ours warned her before she went (she is quite 
stunning) that she would be proposed to on every streetcorner.  
Propositioned was more like it, and her arse was black and blue from 
pinching.  She had a great summer in Italy and Crete on archeological 
digs, but she really could have done without the constant 
harassment.  I think she eventually went into investment banking, but 
I'm unclear whether it was to avoid going back to Italy...

--Barb