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(116,301 posts) Mon Sep 26, 2016, 04:47 PM Sep 2016

Gay Boulder Woman Sues Whole Foods for Discrimination, Says Supervisor Called Her ‘Unf–kable’

A woman in Boulder, Colorado is suing Whole Foods for discriminating against her because she is gay.

Jennifer Johnston filed a lawsuit in U.S. District Court last Wednesday against the grocery retailer, saying she was repeatedly harassed by her supervisor because she is gay and married to a woman.

Johnston’s supervisor allegedly told her that she was “unf*ckable” and made other insulting remarks on a regular basis.

CBS Denver reports:

Johnston married her wife, Kristin, in October of 2014. Not long after, Johnston said that her supervisor at Whole Foods on Pearl Street in Boulder started to harass her on a near-daily basis.

The lawsuit complaint, filed in U.S. District Court on Wednesday, alleges that Johnston’s supervisor made fun of the clothing and shoes that she wore, made offensive comments about her being a lesbian, and pried into her personal life in the bedroom.

“She told me that I looked ‘unf**kable,’ and that only gay people wear crocks, which I took offense to,” Johnston said.

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Gay Boulder Woman Sues Whole Foods for Discrimination, Says Supervisor Called Her ‘Unf–kable’ (Original Post) TexasTowelie Sep 2016 OP

This supervisor's alleged conduct would be preposterous. raging moderate Sep 2016 #1

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1. This supervisor's alleged conduct would be preposterous.

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Mon Sep 26, 2016, 04:57 PM

Sep 2016

I am a straight woman, but my sympathies are totally with this young woman, if her allegations are true. Excuse me, but what right would that man have to demand F##kability in an employee? Back when I was young, unf##kable would have been called by another name: professional. Furthermore, what about people who cannot look sexually appealing, to anybody? What are they supposed to do, and how are they supposed to feel? Work is the place where our work performance should count, not our sexual appeal. And it would be better if everybody remembered this.

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