Edison K. Spearman v. Ford Motor Company

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• holding that employer was not liable under Title VII for sexually explicit insults directed at employee by co-employees, where the insults were meant to “express [the co-employees’] acrimony over work- related disputes” with the employee, and “not to harass him because he is a man”
• rejecting same-sex discrimination claim where record showed that harassers’ conduct was motivated by factors other than plaintiffs gender
• ignoring the plaintiffs claim that he was discriminated against because his co-workers perceived him to be too feminine to fit into the male image of the company, and finding instead that the discriminatory comments were directed solely at the plaintiffs sexual orientation
• \Title VII is not a `general civility code' for the workplace; it does not prohibit harassment in general or of one's homosexuality in particular.\
• use of sexually-explicit insults to express anger at plaintiff over work-related conflicts may be juvenile, but is not sex discrimination
• use of sexually-explicit insults to express anger at plaintiff over work-related conflicts may be juvenile, but is not sex discrimination

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