the solitary vice

Some light reading from the Seventh Circuit:

In Baskerville, we held that the plaintiff could not establish an objectively
severe environment even though, over a seven-month period, the plaintiff's
supervisor had: called her a “pretty girl”; grunted “um um um” when the
plaintiff wore a leather skirt to the office; told the plaintiff that her
presence made the office “hot”; suggested that all “pretty girls,” a category
that presumably included the plaintiff, “run around naked”; told the plaintiff
that he left the company Christmas party early because he “didn't want to lose
control” at the sight of “so many pretty girls”; and suggested to the plaintiff
that the solitary vice was his chief consolation in his wife's
absence. Id. at 430. After reviewing the record in the light most
favorable to the plaintiff, we observed that the plaintiff's supervisor was “not
a man of refinement,” but we concluded that no reasonable jury could find the
environment plaintiff endured to be objectively offensive and *753 therefore held that the defendant was entitled to summary judgment. Id. at 431.

Rogers v. City of Chicago, 320 F.3d 748, 752-53 (7th Cir. 2003) (emphasis added). First of all, apparently someone at your office has to slap you in the face with a penis in order for your workplace environment to be objectively offense! Second, note the excellent use of euphemism in the above passage. Took me a couple passes to understand that one.