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In the legal wild west that is Title VII, egregious acts can go unpunished even as someone else gets in trouble over a chance remark in an elevator.
How did Title VII’s ban on discrimination become the basis for regulating sexual innuendo, lewd comments, and other risqué conduct in the workplace?
If #MeToo encounters a society-wide backlash, its positive effect may wear off.
Desire or Dominance?: Sexual Harassment’s Legal Maze
The discrimination approach doesn’t give us adequate tools for managing real differences between the sexes.
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In the legal wild west that is Title VII, egregious acts can go unpunished even as someone else gets in trouble over a chance remark in an elevator.
How did Title VII’s ban on discrimination become the basis for regulating sexual innuendo, lewd comments, and other risqué conduct in the workplace?
If #MeToo encounters a society-wide backlash, its positive effect may wear off.
There’s a way forward if we can separate isolated cases of improperly expressed attraction from cases bound up in broader prejudicial attitudes to women.
