Sexual Harassment: Sometimes a Real Problem

J. P. Freire over at AmSpec is scandalized by Russian norms about sexual harassment:

She alleged she had been locked out of her office after she refused to have intimate relations with her 47-year-old boss. ...

The judge said he threw out the case not through lack of evidence but because the employer had acted gallantly rather than criminally.

"If we had no sexual harassment we would have no children," the judge ruled.

With that level of clarity, it's a small wonder we won the Cold War.

I think this is a simple case of mistranslation. What the judge meant to say was, "If there were no sexual harassment, I would have no children," which, given that he seems to be quite a creep, is obviously true.