"Las Vegas" show takes a pot shot at sexual harrassment

The second episode of Las Vegas, Season 4 had a few scenes where the cast did an executive sexual harassment seminar. Of course by now, most people knew Danny (Josh Duhamel) was fraternising with Delinda (Molly Sims) which is pretty much a no-no in a lot of corporate environments. The first scene does not really go into depth about sexual harassment, but some of the cast including Ed's (James Caan) voice recorder try to make a few pot shots at different scenarios where they can be accussed of SH.

Near the end of the episode, Danny gets the cast and executives of the hotel together and makes an apology for the seminar for being confusing, lame, stupid, and a waste of their time. He then announces that Delinda was his g/f. He explains that in Las Vegas, you can get sex, riches, and dreams, so there is a lot of temptation out there.

He then laid out a few simple rules:

Guys - Don't be creepy, if you ask a girl out, and she says no, that's it.

Women - There is a difference between a guy being a jerk and sexual harassment. Use common sense, you got plenty of it.

Gay or straight, young or old, the golden rule is the standard.

Knuckleheads or those that cannot help themselves will see Danny or the corporate lawyer.

Is it possible to treat this with simplicity and know that a lot of people have a good decent amount of common sense to deal with the complex world of sexual harassment? With rules and guidelines on how we say, behave, and treat other colleagues, we are basically walking in a minefield everyday.

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