Just in time for Davos

[/ dave /]

Brad Mayer wrote:
 
> > True for most of them (with the prominent exception of France). But
> > at the level of daily life, things seem more egalitarian here. Maybe
> > I'm rushing to judgment; corrections eagerly received.
> >
> > Doug
> 
> Eh, simply to add that american women are subject to more brutality on the
> average than their european counterparts - from american men.  That might
> explain the egalitarian appearance of daily life - american women have to
> fight all the time.  And when you are fighting all the time, sometimes you
> win.

This just in...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/europe/newsid_1136000/1136861.stm

Italian court allows bottom patting
Thursday, 25 January, 2001

Italy's highest appeals court has ruled that a pat on the
bottom is not sexual harassment, provided that it is
"isolated and impulsive". 

The Court of Cassation supported a decision
overturning an earlier guilty verdict by a lower court
against a public health agency manager accused by a
female employee.

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/  dave  /