In most businesses such exploitation of individuals is criminal. In my line of work people lose their jobs when they use their
positional power over those junior to them for the purpose of sex. Apparently the entertainment industry is exempt from many of the legal niceties as alleged rape (Polanksi) and sex with subordinates (Letterman) seems to indicate.
Absent also is any sense of irony regarding Mr. Letterman who has made a career of making fun of others. Now it is his turn to be the butt of nation jokes.
People much more clever than me will be working on Top 10 Lists regarding having sex with subordinates. I can hardly wait.
The real issue here is the exploitation of those who worked for Mr. Letterman. Granted, there will be those who were eager to share the bed with him, and it is likely that there will also be a number who were less eager but felt an obligation to do so. What of them? What of those individuals who refused his advances? Was there a hostile work environment where sex with the boss equalled advancement? Did those who refused his advances lose promotion opportunities?
For the moment the nation has focused on the easy issue: extortion. I just wonder will the fullness of time whether Mr. Letterman will be seen not as the victim but as the perpetrator.
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Letterman is fine; he never was the “Family Values” type. Yes, he probably cheated on his girlfriend now wife. But at least he does go around claiming he is Mr. “Family Values” like some of our politicians/ preachers (can you just see the grin on all “Fake News” reporters/ commentators and the Palin fringe). This has been a tough summer, for Dave, for our economy but at least he did not end up on the “Republican 2009 Summer of Love” list: Assemblyman, Michael D. Duvall (CA), Senator John Ensign (NV), Senator Paul Stanley (TN), Governor Mark Sanford (SC), Board of Ed Chair, and Kristin Maguire AKA Bridget Keeney (SC). Did I miss the NOW statement of outrage with Senator John Ensign? They are so irrelevant.
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