I’ll grant is there is some indication of pervasive sexual, ethnic, or racial firings within an organization. But a dentist’s office?

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Hey now, why stop at 70? I like younger women.

Sackable

The term is ambiguous in itself.
There are two interpretations of it which would normally have no connection.
In this prticular case the two interpretations amount to the same thing.

New Continuum of attractiveness of women.

Average
Good looking
Attractive
Career limiting beauty
Fatally attractive

I’m still hot….. heck… I am 46 and still hot….
I plan on being hot until I am at least 70

That’s the spirit.

With regard to this dentist. What a putz. A marauding hormone ravaged teenage guy has more restraint than he. He needs to man up and stay faithful to his wife, or at the very worst go down to Nevada and rent a hooker and get it out of his system.

This guy is a schmuck and he thinks he is a jewel of a man. (you German speakers will know what I mean)

and nick, you’re going to have to pay full price for the 2013 edition of the “girls of turley blog” calendar.

I wonder if it will also be legal to fire somebody
for being ugly?????

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Swarthmore mom
1, December 24, 2012 at 9:53 am
Nick, Why not? Some of us have daughters in the work place and some of us were hot when we were young.

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I’m still hot….. heck… I am 46 and still hot….
I plan on being hot until I am at least 70….

Is he the guy heading up the “Impose Sharia Law In The Interests Of American Family Values” campaign?

Answer: As pretty as she can be – as long as she’s in niqab.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niq%C4%81b

She should also wear dark glasses, in case men might find her eyes seductive.

It reminds me of a custody battle I saw in Chicago. The mom had some kind of chronic illness that made her very skinny. Her ex-husband claimed that it was a MENTAL ILLNESS and made her an unfit mother. Meanwhile a father in Virginia was claiming that his ex-wife’s obesity made HER an unfit mother. I remember working on an amicus brief that asked, “How much does a fit mother weigh?” This outrageous Iowa decision (but of course, consider the source) has much in common with that concept. “How pretty can a good employee be?”

“Dr.Knight also recalls that after Nelson allegedly made a statement regarding infrequency in her sex life, he responded to her, “[T]hat’s like having a Lamborghini in the garage and never driving it.”

Both her statement and his were over the line inappropriate and the type of banter that bespeaks of flirtatious behavior and of opening the door to sexuality. That he used it in an exculpatory manner, only makes the story ring true. My guess is that there was more than just his fear of his “feelings” getting out of hand to this story. In that type of situation he could have fired her for any number of reasons for cause since she didn’t have a contract. That he chose this excuse and wanted a seemingly unimpeachable witness (his minister) with him, indicates to me that there was a more intimate relationship involved here and that neither Dentist, nor Assistant could charge because both of them were married. The Judges, given the evidence must also realize that there was more involved, but they chose to add their own feelings (as men) towards it and made a ridiculous ruling and justification. One problem with laws trying to curb such noxious behavior as sexual harassment and/or discrimination is that there will always be situations like this where the law is twisted for personal gain. As someone married for more than thirty years I always knew what line not to cross with females and I never crossed it.

Justice and decency should oblige him to at minimum continue to pay her full wages – leave of absence on full pay – until such time as she has been established in an equivalent job locally.
His inadequacy deprived her of an income. It will also have disrupted her life in very many ways.
The fault appears to be entirely his own.

Some likes ‘em tall and yella,
Some likes ‘em short an brown,
but do it make a difference, when the light’s turned down?
Oh baby, don’t you want a gal like me?
Who know how to make love to you, baby,
Well I can show you…my degree.

Must be his marriage isn’t all that great if it can be threatened by an associate. Maybe his wife worked for him before they were married and knows where his workday thoughts go.

Building a conspiracy onto Justice’s post…

” Does this sound familiar? Think Saudi Arabia, Afganistan…”
This is an example of how Sharia Law is being stealthily imposed on the USA by Barack Hussein the socialist terrorist Obama. Blame the women for the inadequacy, immaturity and weakness of men.

Yep.

And what Justice Holmes said.

Surely Shirley, being a Man of God, he said to the dentist:
“And if thine eye offend thee, pluck it out, and cast it from thee: it is better for thee to enter into life with one eye, rather than having two eyes to be cast into hell fire.”

Or maybe they have modified teaching in his church:
I suggest: “And if thine eye offend thee, by making thee horny, it is not thy fault or sinful. It is whatever that makes thee horny that is sinful.
Cast it out of thy dental practice.
I say to thee, be not content with casting it out.
Get thee a barring order from the court, preventing that sinful thing from approaching anywhere whithin 5 leagues of whatever place in which thee might be.”

Extreme, I know but why is it that women must be punished because men are so deficient in self control that the mere sight of a woman will cause them to run from their wives and families. This Iowa court decision is one more step along the line of accepting that in the US men are weak, feckless and unable to control themselves and that as a result women must be excluded from the work place and separated from men to protect men from themselves. Does this sound familiar? Think Saudi Arabia, Afganistan…
Thank you Iowa Supreme Court for such a “family friendly values”decision.
One other comment, how does this dentist work with female patients or interact with women in public? He sounds like a dangerous man to me.

At the end of the workday on January 4, 2010, Dr. Knight called Nelson into his office. He had arranged for another pastor from the church to be present as an observer. Dr. Knight told Nelson he was firing her, reading from a prepared statement. The statement said, inpart, that their relationship had become a detriment to Dr. Knight’s family and that for the best interests of both Dr. Knight and his family and Nelson and her family, the two of them should not work together. Dr. Knight handed Nelson an envelope which contained one month’s severance pay. Nelson started crying and said she loved her job.

Seems religion-based personnel decisions were confirmed by religion-based jurisprudence. Welcome to the conjoining of church and state in Iowa.

It’s not just a bad decision; it’s a warning.

Abominable. And brought to you by the National Organization for Marriage, America’s anti-gay bigots in the religious right, and our very own Republican party. They replaced three Iowa Supreme Court justices because they ruled in favor of gay marriage, and therefore had to be destroyed and replaced with far-right religious right nuts.

As a result, the Iowa Supreme Court just ruled that men can fire women for being too hot. And, what’s worse, it’s actually a family values kind of thing, firing women for being “too hot,” because that way take away the temptation for adultery.” American Blog. Seven right wing GOP men advancing their war on women.

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I think it’s a crazy decision but it does lend itself to a great song and video so it’s got that going for it: