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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Nobody said Paltrow lied. I just think she was rather naive and put herself in a bad situation. Lesson learned. I bet she never took a meeting alone with a strange man again.

All you people who think it's nbd to go to hotel rooms alone with a stranger are lucky your bones haven't been made into windchimes. A healthy dose of distrust and precaution would be a good thing. [/quote]

You're ridiculous. Harvard Law School had its on-campus interviews in hotel rooms when I was there. You would have just skipped job interviews? I assume, in addition to being distrustful, you're also independent wealthy? No need for a job?[/quote]

I think you are ridiculous to compare law school interviews with casting couch antics involving young adoring actresses and sleazy moguls like Harvey.

I'm a lawyer btw. There was nothing sleazy happening during OCIs...even those held at hotels.

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I think the point is, when you normalize having interviews in a hotel room with a bed, you shouldn't be surprised when some small percentage of the general population takes advantage of that norm to perpetrate abuse.  Frankly, if the normal professional expecatation is legitimate career opportunities are only to be proffered in professional offices with professional staff around, we'd all be better off.

And, please try to listen to what women are saying in this thread.  We are saying doing interviews in a room with a bed makes us uncomfortable.  You dismiss that as irrational, but for many of us it is a level of hyper-awareness of the circumstances under which we are more vulnerable - a hyper awareness that comes from the knowledge that, despite your statement that "nothing" happens, these things do indeed happen.  Many of us have been sexually harrassed in job interviews or internships or on the job when and where we never imagined it would happen.  I was sexually harrassed at a business dinner at a colleague's home while his wife and kids were there.  Never did I imagine that could happen!  I was sexually touched by my mentor associate in front of other law firm partners in plain view at a summer associate event.  There is nowhere it doesn't happen.

When you dismiss us when we say we're not comfortable you are part of the problem - listen to that tape of the Italian model/actress - how many times did she say, "No, I don't want to do that; I'm not comfortable."?

You are making the same argumeny Harvey Weinstein did - "oh, stop whining, nothing is going to happen, just do it any way even if it makes you uncomfortable."  And if you don't want to, then you will pay a career cost.[/quote]

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