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When Captain Lisa Stout kept finding secret, but apparently deliberately-placed stashes of pornography in the cockpit, she didn't feel like she was flying the friendly skies, and filed a federal sexual harassment lawsuit with United Airlines. The case has been settled, but the terms, like the stashes, are also secret.
It's disturbing to hear how immature and twisted the harassment was, and think that the perpetrator could be a pilot still working for United.
Stout found pornographic photos of women on flights more than 20 times in 2004 and 2005, taped in surprise spots like the lid of an unused ashtray. (Um, by the way, why do airplanes STILL have ashtrays? How old are these planes we fly in?) She alleges that United's efforts to find the perpetrator were inadequate and she suffered retaliation as as result. Stout's suit claims she developed a "severe condition" that required her to take medication and eventually ground herself.
Check out United's defense:
United argued that Stout could not have been offended by the
sexually explicit photos because she once worked in a retail store that
sold pornographic magazines, she sometimes sketched nudes as an artist
and she had attended art shows displaying photos of nude women.
We're surprised they didn't add in that Stout was a woman, so she had seen herself naked before, so she couldn't possibly be bothered by this so-called harassment.
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