Sadly, plenty of women support this bullshit, too. Some asshole on Gawker is actually using that as an excuse to not support abortion: "If there are females who support misogynistic legislation, I can support it to without being misogynistic! Yay!"

He could develop some fucking self-control. Oh, right, that's too much to ask from a man. Seriously, acting like men are just runaway penises with no responsibility for their actions is insulting to me, as a man. I work and have worked with tons of extremely attractive women, and I've never had these kinds of issues.

Yeah, that's the worst part. I wouldn't want to spend time with these people, I just see it as one of the only inroads into a paid, non-freelance writing career that's left.

if only she weren't so attractive! if only she weren't so pretty! if only she didn't wear such revealing clothes!

I think you should quit because holy shit who wants coworkers like those they do not deserve you.

I used to work in advertising and I can attest that marketing types are a filthy bunch. Affairs and after-hours office sex were rampant at my former place of employment— hell, our president only became such because she was having an affair with the former president.

In my experience, one's wealth, either real or aspirational, has a pretty strong relationship to what one considers good taste.

Hotness is not a gender, obviously, but neither is "stereotyping" yet making employment decisions based on a gender stereotype is considered workplace discrimination. It's not about whether it's a "gender" - it's about whether the justification for making a workplace decision can be sufficiently related to gender to…

It's really hard to tell. Because, like, everyone knows that both of the married men in the department have had multiple affairs with the young, nubile blondes they've hired and then fired in rapid succession, but gosh — it could just be me and I should quit.

I have to state the obvious here: this woman got fired by her boss because he couldn't control himself around her. And this is her fault.

"Close personal relationships between men and woman can often produce personal emotions and conduct that are unfamiliar to the workplace relationship targeted by the general prohibition against gender discrimination in the workplace."

Wow, Your Holiness, such great advice for you in the responses! Do you think the problem is with you, like that one guy said, or do you think that the problem is with you, like the other guy said?

I hate that this also perpetuates the myth that men can't control themselves, and that sexual harassment is basically inevitable if they're attracted to a woman. I'm not sure who I despise more, the man for believing this and thinking the only possible solution was to fire her (instead of, you know, controlling…

Meanwhile, I can't climb the corporate ladder because all the dudebros in the department I'm trying to transition into mainly hire women for the sole purpose of trying to have affairs with them.

It is pretty tiny, comparably! A lot of my classmates growing up had giant extended family, so I always felt a little strange... until I met people from other regions, that had even tinier families than me.

Aww, three and five? That's tiny.

Exactly. My husband comes from a family of 12 (Catholic, not Mormon) and both his parents came from big families, and he could probably rattle off the names of his 100 "closest" cousins in about two minutes flat.

You shoulda seen the shit storm over child porn over there.

Yeah! I know! It's like Jezzie's don't want more harassment by douchebags in their life! What harpies!

Well, do you blame 'em? I find the older I get the less I have tolerance for dumbassery in general. Especially internet dumbassery over what type of genitals I happen to have.