Sacking "Attractive" Assistant is Legal

 A dentist from Iowa has been found not guilty of sexual discrimination when he sacked his assistant for being attractive.

The Iowa Supreme Court ruled on Friday that the dentist, Dr James Knight, did not engage in unlawful gender discrimination when he fired his assistant Melissa Nelson, as he found her attractive and feared they might have an extramarital affair.

The seven justices, all male, threw out a gender discrimination lawsuit, saying that the dentist’s actions may have been unfair to the longtime female employee, but that his conduct did not amount to sex discrimination, according to C S Monitor.

The assistant was fired after the dentist’s wife concluded that the attractive employee had become a threat to the couple’s marriage. 

The jealous spouse demanded the assistant be terminated. 

Melissa worked for more than 10 years as a dental assistant for Knight, in Fort Dodge, Iowa. The two, who are both married with children, were friendly at work and allegedly began to engage in workplace banter and off-hours texting. Some of their private communications were highly personal and sexual in nature, according to the decision. Dr Knight said he sometimes told Nelson that she was wearing tight-fitting clothing that he found distracting.

At one point, according to a statement in the record made by Knight, Nelson commented about the infrequency of her sex life. The dentist said he responded to her: “That’s like having a Lamborghini in the garage and never driving it.”

Nelson denied ever flirting with the dentist or hinting at an intimate relationship with him. She said her clothing was not too revealing.

In a related development, a province in Indonesia has banned female secretaries. Rusli Habibie, the governor of Gorontalo province, said on Saturday that he had ordered his top staff to replace their female secretaries with men following a string of extra-marital affairs.

Source: Mumbai Mirror, Reuters

Men fear rape by Women

LONDON: Gangs of pretty women in Zimbabwe have been raping men to harvest their sperm for use in traditional luck-enhancing 'juju' rituals, according to local media reports. 

Local woman, Susan Dhliwayo , claims she pulled her car over recently to pick up a group of male hitchhikers and they refused to get in, as they feared they were going to be raped, the Daily Mail reported. 

"Now, men fear women. They said, 'We can't go with you because we don't trust you' ," Dhliwayo, 

According to reports, victims of the freeway femme fatales are drugged or subdued at gun or knife-point - one man was even compelled to perform at 'snake-point' when his rapists brandished a live snake. The male victims are then given a sexual stimulant and forced to have sex continually , occasionally unprotected , before being dumped on the side of the road. 

In November, three sisters and one of their boyfriends were charged in a Harare court for attacking male hitchhikers and collecting their semen. The Nhokwara sisters were detained when they were involved in a car accident and police found 31 used condoms in the boot of their car. 

They face 17 counts of aggravated indecent assault, as a woman raping a man is not a criminal offense in the country . The sisters have claimed that they were merely hardworking prostitutes.

Source: TOI

Hinduja College ask Parents to Bring Identity Cards

Charni Road-based KPB Hinduja College asked defaulting students to bring their parents, along with identity proof, to a parent-teacher meet, to curb instances of students hiring actors to pass off as mommy and dad 

College students may no longer be able to pass off older friends, lenient relatives, and rented actors as parents when brought to book over low attendance in front of teachers, if the move made by authorities at KPB Hinduja College at Charni Road is any precedent.

On September 21, the college authorities surprised students of second year, junior college, by displaying a notice that asked 51 defaulters to show up with parents who were carrying identity proof, at the parents meet yesterday, failing which they would not be allowed to fill the HSC examination form. 

Naturally, the students were all at sea. Suraj Shah (name changed), one of the defaulters, said, "I haven't heard of this happening anywhere else." 

Bhavin Mehta (name changed), another defaulter, added, "Even if parents bring identity proof for verification, the college will ask them further questions about the child's personal life to ensure that they are in fact, the real parents."

Parents, however, are positive about the move. Rupal Jha, (name changed) a parent of an SYJC student, said, "It's a good initiative. We don't mind bringing identity proof along." 

Smita Parekh, (name changed) another parent, agreed, adding, however, that the identity proof wasn't checked all that thoroughly at the meeting. "We just signed on a muster and left the college. Students who are defaulters usually bring along fake parents." 

Dr T.A. Shiware, principal of KPB Hinduja College explained the reason behind the decision. "Students are smart, and believe they can hoodwink college authorities. They hire 'parents' when asked to attend meetings after their names appear on the defaulters' list. This year, we decided to demand ID proof from the parents."

Source: Mid-day