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My friend Dale Dougherty (editor and publisher of Maker Media) sent this to me for Boing Boing. He writes:
I just completed two plus hours of training in the prevention of sexual harassment. Thanks to Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger's flirtatious ways in his he-man days, California has a law (AB 1825) that "requires employers with more than 50 people to provide 2 hours of training and education to all supervisory employees." (Learning to spell 'harassment' correctly is a challenge itself - one 'r', not two, and two 's's; pronunciation is another issue.)
So I'm able to meet this requirement by taking an online course that teaches about "protected characteristics" and other terms. "Real-world" legal cases are presented throughout. At times, I thought I was reading Aesop's Fables, but with the "moral" of the story presented as multiple choice. Most of the lessons have the tone of a humorless teacher: "Employees should never use email or any business communication system to send or receive rumors or gossip, or to make disparaging or defamatory remarks about anyone." I felt like a student in the back of class wanting to say: "yeah, that never happens."
So I was surprised to read that the subject of one of these fables was Koko the Gorilla.
Case Study: Gorilla Suit
Kendra was a research associate for The Gorilla Foundation. As part of her duties, Kendra helped care for Koko, the sign-language talking gorilla.
Using sign language, Koko is able to communicate with humans. Over the years, Koko has repeatedly requested that female human visitors display their breasts to her. In fact, certain of Koko's hand movements were interpreted as a "demand" by Koko to see exposed human nipples.
Accordingly, when Koko made the signs about Kendra, Koko's primary caregiver instructed Kendra to expose her breasts to Koko as a way to bond with the great ape.
Although Kendra used to regularly dress in front of the pet parrot that lived in the Foundation's women's locker room, Kendra is uncomfortable with Koko's "demand."
This scenario is based on a 2005 case called Keller v. The Gorilla Foundation. Could Kendra complain that she was sexually harassed?
* No, because Kendra exposed herself to the Foundation's parrot and Koko wanted Kendra do the same thing.
* Probably not, because Koko is not a human.
* Only if she first "signs" to Koko that she will not indulge Koko's request.
* Yes, and the Foundation was required to take effective action to stop the harassment from continuing.
You can't make this stuff up, especially the detail about the pet parrot. David Pescovitz wrote about "Koko's Nipple Fetish" in 2005 on BoingBoing, citing the story in the San Francisco Chronicle. Now it has made itself into state-mandated training materials.
Note: I don't mean to make light of sexual harassment but, honestly, I don't work with gorillas.
The government of Iceland is asking US authorities why an Icelandic tourist who'd flown to NYC to shop and hang out over the holidays was held in shackles before being deported from the US:
The woman, Erla Osk Arnardottir Lillendahl, 33, was arrested Sunday [December 9] when she
arrived at JFK airport in New York because she had overstayed a U.S. visa
more than 10 years earlier.
Lillendahl, 33, had planned to shop and sightsee with friends, but endured
instead what she has claimed was the most humiliating experience of her
life.
She contended she was interrogated at JFK airport for two days, during which
she was not allowed to call relatives. She said she was denied food and
drink for part of the time, and was photographed and fingerprinted.
On Monday, Lillendahl claimed, her hands and feet were chained and she was
moved to a prison in New Jersey, where she was kept in a cell, interrogated
further and denied access to a phone.
"IM IN UR MANGER KILLING UR SAVIOR" is hilarious animated short about three nerds who turn a nativity scene into a LARP battle. It was hand created over a year by Ben Levin and Matt Burnett of the animation studio For Tax Reasons.
In possibly the shortest press release of the year, Vonage announced that they've settled -- as expected -- with AT&T over their ongoing patent dispute. No details were given, but their dime stock lifted 12%, so maybe someone on Wall St. knows something we don't about whether it was AT&T or Vonage that got the raw deal.
So, you've got an outstanding ticket from talking while behind the wheel in Chicago, do you? Meet attorney Blake Horwitz, who is now likely to be the best friend you don't even know. Reportedly, Mr. Horwitz is suing the city and claiming that arrests of citizens caught driving and talking were in fact illegal, and furthermore, he's demanding that Chicago "dismiss any outstanding tickets and refund almost $2 million in fines collected since 2005." Apparently, the actual law that prevents users from yapping and motoring requires that the city erect signs that instruct drivers not to converse while driving, yet such signs have purportedly not been posted across Chi-town. The devil's in the details, we suppose.
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