An Important Message from the American Bar Association.

Can you imagine anybody saying that sort of thing in a regular workplace? Let’s try a similar scenario in the average office, shall we?

Boss: Does anybody know where Elaine is?

Worker: I dunno! Maybe she’s put peanut butter on her crotch and is waiting to see if any dogs come by!

Boss: You’re fired, John. Meet security at your cube.

As a socially progressive hero, Green Arrow surely knows that this sort of behavior only makes for an uncomfortable working environment for all parties involved. Aquaman now has the stigma of being called a fishfucker (yes, I know, porpoise!=fish), Wonder Woman (for example) now wonders what animals she’s accused of consorting with, and nobody wants to confront Ollie on this because they probably haven’t written up this sort of behavior in the JLA employee handbook.

This website goes into the importance of a sexual harassment policy and item number one is:

If your company does not have a sexual harassment/discrimination policy, get one fast! The policy should communicate that the company is taking a “zero tolerance” approach toward sexual harassment. Have an attorney review it, and make sure it gets out to all your employees either through the employee handbook or in memo form. Have the employees sign it to acknowledged that they received and read the policy. The policy should be verbally communicated to all new employees, and can even be posted in the workplace. If you have employees whose primary language is not English, have your sexual harassment policy translated or communicate to them in their primary language.

To this, I say a hearty “Hear, Hear!” Making anyone uncomfortable in the workplace for anything other than their incompetence is unacceptable and deserves more than a healthy amount of scorn. If I were Batman, I’d bring in the Wayne Foundation office policy manual at the next meeting and use that as a basis for an addendum to the JLA charter to cover behavior such as this. Then I would kick Green Arrow in the throat.

Zero tolerance, indeed.