Man steps into a crowded hotel elevator. “What floor?” asks the woman closest to the buttons. “Ladies lingerie,” he answers. Everyone laughs. She doesn’t. She’s from Women’s Studies, so of course she files a sexual harassment complaint against him. It’s possible she’s too young to get the joke. But even so …

To his credit he did not accede to his Association’s demand that he apologise. Nor would I have. As I say, with people as stupid as this, don’t explain, don’t argue, and don’t apologise.

Interesting thing about some words in our language. Her complaint was frivolous, but she was certainly not engaging in frivolity. Simona Sharoni is precisely the Nothing from the NeverEnding Story I wrote about in my last entry. Richard Ned Lebow is precisely the One Tin Soldier standing up for the Something against the Nothing.

Categories: Everything You Wanted to Know About What's Going On in the World But Were Afraid to Ask, Humour

Tags: Simona Sharoni