American Taliban: Women have no right to their own bodies, but they're responsible for HIS

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59. Sex between coworkers is quite common as you well know...

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Many if not most marriages start in the work place. This suggests that sexual dynamics in the work place are quite common if not pervasive in some work environments. The boss sleeping with his secretaries or other professional sexual relationships is an age old tradition so to speak, and not just in America. Going away on a business trip and having a drink with a coworker and having a sexual "encounter" in not at all uncommon.

And why expect any different. Some professionals work more closely and are in a sense more intimate with coworkers than their own partner, sometimes spending more time in more intense situations with people with similar views, similar life situations, and of course similar career paths and goals.


I don't think you are taking into account the whole situation. He was obviously attracted to her and perhaps there was mutual attraction unstated or otherwise. Take into account a jealous spouse.


Also consider that this was not a rash and callous decision. He had obviously discussed the situation with his wife. And when I say discussed, I should say marriage rending, all out shouting matches. This is a situation dealing with the most sensitive and raw emotions. These feelings almost certainly entered the work place.

He also worked with his wife. Imagine the problems in a professional environment this would create. Supposing the wife hated the ex-employee and vice versa, which is probable, would make a very difficult and destructive work environment. It's also possible that he had had affairs. The wife may have known about these or not but either way it would have made a working relationship difficult to say the least.

He also took council with his pastor. This suggests that it was really something that he felt was beyond his ability to control. He was just flat out attracted to her. He also wasn't taking the decision lightly. He didn't want to fire her. She was obviously a good employee. But the marital and work place dynamics were just too obstructive to maintain a work relationship.

That all said,I know I am going to get a lot of flack for writing all this, but I just feel like it's not as simple as a discrimination case, although I understand why the case was filed. I'm not going to judge the court decision itself. I'm not saying she had no court case, or the court ruled incorrectly, but this was certainly not a simple situation with an easy answer for any of the parties involved.