If there are gender studies textbooks out there, surely they are filled with cases just like this one. A white, Southern male boss not only gropes female staffers on the job, but in fact defiantly defends his right to do so.

“Oh, shut up,” he counters when confronted by a colleague. “I do whatever I want to Yolanda!” There are elements of sex, power and even race at play here, since the state legislative employees he speaks of and treats like his property are black women.