Reply #40: Do you not acknowledge that men and women who --

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-- feel themselves sexually harassed can, if they choose to, seek legal remedy? In the Middle Ages, that was not the case; from Packwood forward, it is the case. That addresses their grievance with clout in a public courtroom.

I agree with other posters here that power relationships involving sexual favors are not limited to inside-the-beltway. They are correct to suggest that these relationships go on in hardware stores in Utah and retail shops in Connecticut. Lapses of judgment do not have a zip code.

If you know of a data source which demonstrates that bad sexual behavior is more prevalent in DC than elsewhere, post it. If not, I think you need to back off this part of your theory.