No hug ruling must be embraced by employers

In a case workplace experts say highlights the need for employer vigilance, a disability support organisation, Distinctive Options, was found vicariously liable for sexual harassment after one of its case workers was repeatedly hugged by another. The Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal found the hugs bestowed on 62-year-old Colin Sammut were not jovial and supportive but "physically intimate" and "like a man hugs a woman". Mr Sammut, who made the harassment complaint after being dismissed, said he had repeatedly indicated the hugs were unwelcome because he didn't like physical intimacy. The tribunal heard this was common knowledge and he had been given the nickname "Colin who does not like to be touched" in the office. A tribunal member, Elizabeth Wentworth, found his co-worker gave him physically intimate hugs that were "more than putting an arm around his shoulder".

Out of touch school pushes PC line

If you ever doubted our sex-saturated culture was pathologising childhood, this story will send shivers up your spine. Two 13-year old and one 14-year-old boys - handsome football stars of Year 8 - have been expelled from a Sydney Catholic school after a female classmate complained they had touched her fully clothed breast three months earlier. The boys, who cannot be named for legal reasons, admitted to touching the 13-year-old girl during an English class, but said it was consensual, "and she had no problem with it", said the mother of one of the boys. A teacher was present in the classroom at the time and the girl did not complain or appear distressed. But three months later, the girl told a teacher and the official sexual harassment machinery swung into action.

SBS TV Insight Seeks Australian Men to Talk About Sexual Harassment

SBS TV’s Insight program is Australia’s leading current affairs forum. On Monday September 13, Insight is hosting a forum on Sexual Harassment in the Australian workplace and beyond: is it still active in the community?

Insight wants to create a forum that’s fair, balanced and diverse. Insight is asking Australian men to join our audience to share their personal experiences of sexual harassment in the workplace. Have you been on the receiving end of sexual harassment yourself? Have you witnessed sexual harassment at a workplace where it’s the norm? Have you regrettably crossed the line, only to realise you took it too far – and you’re now willing to speak out about it to help other men? Or do you think political correctness gone too far by limiting normal human behaviour?

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Woman offered 14-year-old sex, drugs on flight (USA)

A Chicago area father claims in a lawsuit that Southwest Airlines failed to protect his teenage son from an older female passenger who made sexual advances and offered him illegal drugs during a flight two years ago. The incident occurred on a July 2008 flight from Chicago's Midway Airport to Orlando, according to the lawsuit filed Monday in Cook County Circuit Court. The boy, who was 14 at the time, asked flight attendants to switch his seat multiple times but "was emphatically told no," the lawsuit said. "This was a little boy who was flying alone who was really, you know, in the care and custody of that airline," the family's attorney, Jeffrey Deutschman, said in a telephone interview. "They failed to protect him. They allowed an individual to get intoxicated on that flight. That person was harassing my client sexually as well as trying to give him drugs. He was a very scared little boy."

Sexual Abuse and Feminist Domination (NZ)

Is there a deliberate Feminist strategy to scapegoat men in relation to the issue of sex abuse, in order to further the female domination of education, and hence of society as a whole? In New Zealand, at least, there has been some publicity about the phenomenon of men school teachers and complaints. One estimate is that every man school teacher in New Zealand could expect to have no less than three complaints made against him per year - mainly over sexual misconduct and sexual harassment, etc. Much the same thing has occurred in Australia, and men school teachers have to constantly be looking over their shoulder for silly and unfounded complaints that are usually about some little feminist not getting the marks she feels entitled to, and who is then pushed by mum to complain as a means of getting better marks. In at least one Australian high school, any discussions between a girl and a male teacher are held in a glass room in the middle of the playground, so that everybody can see what goes on. Consequently, very few graduate men go into school teaching now - nobody would put his head in that noose - and the result is that - you guessed it - all those feminist indoctrinated little girls from university with their cheap and easy credits from Women's Studies are now running the show.