This week the great relic announced in his ancient, gravel tones the women he employs must wear skirts to work to please him.
Yet there they were, excusing Laws’ sexist ways and tone and skirt diktat on TV. “He’s actually a really good, decent man,” Rowe said.
No, he’s not – he’s someone treating professional work colleagues as objects of decoration.
“He’s a lovely man,” Buttrose echoed.
This is what Laws says of ogling his female staff: “I love them to look feminine. A skirt on a beautiful body is a very, very feminine thing.”
That’s not lovely. That’s the exploitation of a power dynamic in which workers are obliged to service the skeezy pleasure of the boss on top of doing their day job. Australian law says sexual harassment is not on, and the community knows anything close to sexually questionable behaviour at work is not on.
