Hateful chapters

So right now I'm working on chapter 2. It's incredible, actually: I have a really profound finding to share with the world. That finding is:

Depending on what the "sex" is that happened in a case, judges on federal sexual harassment cases write the cases differently.

That's not a clear statement; if I weren't drunk on margaritas I'd be able to say it better. But this is the first time I've been able to say it in one sentence...I think.

At any rate, let me elaborate:

I've read every federal circuit sexual harassment case since 1994, and every sexual harassment case of the US Supreme Court. And I can tell you that the cases vary in a predictable way: if the case is about a woman being harassed by a man, sexually, the cases read one way; if it's about a man being harassed by a man, it's another; if it's about a woman being harassed by a woman, it's another; and so on.

This difference is clear, strong, and salient. I think it reflects nothing less than differing standards of dignity for men and women and heterosexual and not heterosexual.

I'll elaborate when I'm less hammered.

Mark