Fired For Being Too Hot
December 28, 2012
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as posted by the channel"The all-male Iowa Supreme Court ruled 7-0 on Friday that a dentist was totally within his legal rights when he fired his female assistant because he and his wife all held hands and decided that the woman was a threat to their marriage. In other words, a female employee in Iowa was fired because her boss found himself leering at her too often, and this incapacity to behave like a decent, professional human somehow, in the hothouse imagination of the Iowa Supreme Court, became her problem."*
A woman was fired for being "irresistibly attractive," which was held up by the all-male Iowa Supreme Court. Is this going to set a ridiculous precedent? How is this legal? Cenk Uygur and Ana Kasparian break down the story, and the subsequent online justice.
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