TYT: Unbelievable Sexual Harrassment in Russia

Run time: 03:09 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y66Hrdt_w0g   Posted on YouTube: August 06, 2008 By YouTube Member: Views on YouTube: 0   Posted on DU: August 08, 2008 By DU Member: ihavenobias Views on DU: 1178

 








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Is having a (ostensibly) totally collectivist system (really just another form of feudalism, in this case) just not conducive to societal advancement? Or has the sudden plunge from Communism to corporatism (don't call it "democracy" because it's not) created a breeding ground for all manner of pathologies, from epidemic alcoholism to ultra-nationalism to things like that described in the video? Or is it a little from Column A and a little from Column B?

I ask because I'm genuinely curious.

To understand them, you have to understand the feudal system, which was going strong until the Revolution. Serfs belonged to the land, which was owned by the landowner. Anyone who rose to a position of authority had power over the serfs and after the Revolution, the common working class. Communism replaced the kulaks and the minor nobles with party functionaries, who bettered working conditions and pensions in general, but kept the social perks in particular. Ambitious people quickly learned to spout the Marxist-Leninist party line, and in collective interactions, they had clearly defined objectives spelled out for them, but in one-on-one interactions, they would revert to their feudal upbringing.

A society still stuck, in some ways, in a Medieval feudal mentality.

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A woman seeking to become only the third woman ever to successfully bring a sexual harassment case in Russia was dealt a shocking rebuke when the judge threw out her case, ruling that sexual harassment is actually necessary for the survival of the human race:

She alleged she had been locked out of her office after she refused to have intimate relations with her 47-year-old boss.


"He always demanded that female workers signalled to him with their eyes that they desperately wanted to be laid on the boardroom table as soon as he gave the word," she earlier told the court. "I didn't realise at first that he wasn't speaking metaphorically."

The judge said he threw out the case not through lack of evidence but because the employer had acted gallantly rather than criminally.

"If we had no sexual harassment we would have no children," the judge ruled.


http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/08/05/russian-judge-rules-sexua_n_117071.html

Fit right in Bush's justice system.

senseless and then told it's for the good of the human race!

They raped Georgia this morning.

really?