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Again, I'm not saying that this wasn't unwanted behaviour, and I'm not saying that it wouldn't be construed as harassment if it continued. But in court (it woul

by anjc 10y ago

Again, I'm not saying that this wasn't unwanted behaviour, and I'm not saying that it wouldn't be construed as harassment if it continued. But in court (it wouldn't ever get to court but) they'd just say "but it's in the Webster's dictionary as a noun and is synonymous with 'attractive', it wasn't meant literally". Then in my country the guy would be able to sue for wrongful dismissal. I get what you're saying though.

runako 10y ago
I got sucked far enough into this thread and its references to MILF in the dictionary that I became curious as to whether Webster's actually includes MILF. I don't have a printed copy of Webster's handy, and it's not in webster.com. Dictionary.com has it as follows: noun, Slang: Vulgar. 1. an attractive older woman, usually a mother, who is regarded as a sexual object by a younger man. Origin of MILF Expand M(other) I(‘d) L(ike) to F(uck) Oxford online is roughly the same. I'm not sure I'd want either of those read to a jury as part of a description of conduct I chose (as a manager) to ignore.
- anjc 10y ago
  Every year here in the UKish area the media makes a big deal about what words are being added by the big-wig printed dictionaries. Mostly because, as time goes on, the only words that get added are 'funny' like...YOLO...words like that. We have different main dictionaries to the US, Oxford English and Chambers, for example, and milf is in all of them as a noun and has been in some for a long time. So I mean, if even the dictionary says that it's a noun and only that its origin was an acronym which was made a generation ago, I think it's fair to say that anybody could legitimately plead ignorance here, if needs be. Like I've heard people on TV calling their family members Milfs even, and "incest" doesn't immediately spring to my mind. I feel like people here are just pretending that they don't know it, effectively, now simply means "attractive" so that they can attack the guy in OP's post. You wouldn't need to have a jury read it because this case would never ever make it to court, and as I said elsewhere, in any modern country not only could you not fire this guy for this, but if you did fire him you would be probably on the hook for damages due to wrongful dismissal.

by anjc 10y ago

runako 10y ago

I got sucked far enough into this thread and its references to MILF in the dictionary that I became curious as to whether Webster's actually includes MILF. I don't have a printed copy of Webster's handy, and it's not in webster.com. Dictionary.com has it as follows: noun, Slang: Vulgar. 1. an attractive older woman, usually a mother, who is regarded as a sexual object by a younger man. Origin of MILF Expand M(other) I(‘d) L(ike) to F(uck) Oxford online is roughly the same. I'm not sure I'd want either of those read to a jury as part of a description of conduct I chose (as a manager) to ignore.

anjc 10y ago
Every year here in the UKish area the media makes a big deal about what words are being added by the big-wig printed dictionaries. Mostly because, as time goes on, the only words that get added are 'funny' like...YOLO...words like that. We have different main dictionaries to the US, Oxford English and Chambers, for example, and milf is in all of them as a noun and has been in some for a long time. So I mean, if even the dictionary says that it's a noun and only that its origin was an acronym which was made a generation ago, I think it's fair to say that anybody could legitimately plead ignorance here, if needs be. Like I've heard people on TV calling their family members Milfs even, and "incest" doesn't immediately spring to my mind. I feel like people here are just pretending that they don't know it, effectively, now simply means "attractive" so that they can attack the guy in OP's post. You wouldn't need to have a jury read it because this case would never ever make it to court, and as I said elsewhere, in any modern country not only could you not fire this guy for this, but if you did fire him you would be probably on the hook for damages due to wrongful dismissal.