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McKamie said Brown wants an apology and wants to punish Victoria Osteen with punitive damages amounting to 10 percent of her net worth, saying his client was "traumatized" by the whole event.

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From the news article: "According to court documents, Brown claims that she suffers from anxiety and hemorrhoids because of the incident and said her faith was affected. She is also suing Osteen for medical expenses for counseling."

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Originally posted by Robespierre:
I hope she doesn't accidentally read Babble forum one day, she might turn into a Satinist.

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Originally posted by Catchfire:
Actually, I thought it was kind of funny. Like the Ray Davies said once, you really got me.

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1. I agree completely with remind. There's nothing funny about any workers being harassed and assaulted on the job. Female flight attendants are particularly vulnerable for a host of reasons.

2. I believe Continental flight attendants are unionized with the IAM&AW. Where is the union in this whole piece? They're the ones who should be progressing and financing any legal action on her behalf. It's possible they investigated and decided not to, but I'd like to hear that side of the story.

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Originally posted by unionist:
A few points:

1. I agree completely with remind. There's nothing funny about any workers being harassed and assaulted on the job. Female flight attendants are particularly vulnerable for a host of reasons...

3. The worker says her faith was affected by the attack. I don't want to hear any cracks here about the need for a faith-saving settlement.

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There is comedy in many things, though not in all things. Ridiculing the worker for filing a complaint against the televangelist isn't where it can be found in this story. But, that didn't happen, no one joked about the action she took against her assailant.

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Originally posted by Michelle:
Would Jesus throw a flight attendant against the wall and elbow her in the breast for not cleaning a spill fast enough?

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Originally posted by oldgoat:
There's nothing funny in the story. M. Spector actually making a joke just set a few people off their equalibrium, that's all.

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In fairness, Michelle's OP wasn't exactly sombre in tone.

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Originally posted by M. Spector:
What, like I never make jokes?

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People make jokes about bad things all of the time.

I remember a few days after the Challenger blew up in 1986 (the space shuttle with the teacher, Christa McAuliffe, on board), someone said: "Did you hear that they recovered the 'black box' from the shuttle wreckage?? The last thing recorded about three seconds before the explosion was McAuliffe asking, 'Hey, what's this button for?'"

But, I guess we should be somber and long-faced about every piece of serious news (even though that would be the end of careers for many social commentators).