Beard plucking = Sexual Harassment
Watch out, salarymen: the next time you ask that cute office lady to pluck your beard, you may be committing SEXUAL HARASSMENT! The Scotsman has the story:
A JAPANESE man has been found guilty of sexual harassment for forcing a female work colleague to pluck his beard.
“Asking a female colleague to pluck your beard is totally inappropriate and illegal,” the judge said as he ordered the man and the government, as his employer, to pay a total of almost £2,700 in compensation.
The man – an employee in his thirties in an office affiliated with the labour ministry – had repeatedly asked the woman to pluck his beard, and she was finally forced to give in.
Media reports said the man had been warned previously for sexually harassing the woman, including sending her notes demanding she come on a company trip in her “best bathing suit”.
It’s a sad day for businessmen in Japan. What’s next? Will women expect equal pay for the same job?!
