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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Everyone keeps quibbling over the finer details, and while I believe Justin even if we dissect the arguments on a microscopic level, what's just as important is I believe Justin when it comes to the big picture.

Justin did not like her, and felt like he had to appease her every step of the way based on his exchanges with others. He just comes off as so resigned and as someone who wants to get the whole thing over with. He's berated by her husband before they even begin filming but then he can't control himself and wants to ogle her? It's just bizarre.[/quote]

Sexual harassment doesn't automatically mean that the perpetrator "wants to ogle" the victim or is trying to have sex with them. Sexual harassment can happen specifically *because* a boss or manager doesn't like someone working for them, and uses things of a sexual or gendered nature to make them feel uncomfortable. It's really about power.

Lively has never alleged that he hit on her. Just that his behavior was harassing. She also alleges that he repeatedly told her that he was speaking with her dead father.

He is creepy.[/quote]

Being "creepy" doesn't meet the threshold for workplace sexual harassment and you know that. That's why you said his behavior was "harassing" and not "sexual" harassment because seeing a birthing video and claiming someone talked to your dead father doesn't meet that threshold either. [/quote]

His behavior was both harassing and sexual and in several instances, sexually harassing. But "sexual harassment" does not just refer to someone hitting on or "ogling" someone at work, and the "sexual" in sexual harassment can also refer to gendered behavior, not just sexual behavior (i.e. a boss who repeatedly says nasty or critical things about women in front of his female employees could be guilty of sexual harassment even if he never tries to sleep with any of them).

Creepy isn't a legal term of course. But whether or not a situation constitutes hostile work environment requires a judgment call by a jury -- would a reasonable person find this behavior okay? I don't, I find it "creepy" and if I were on a jury and presented evidence of the behavior in Lively's complaint, I would consider this a hostile work environment.[/quote]

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