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Staten Island Ferry Is Like a Frat House, Says Lawsuit

NEW YORK - MAY 08:  A Staten Island Ferry heads towards Manhattan following the crash of another ferry into a dock in the city's borough of Staten Island on May 8, 2010 in New York City. Dozens were injured in the morning crash in which the ferry was returning from Manhattan. This is the same ferry, the Andrew J. Barbieri, which in October 2003 crashed into the pier at the same terminal in St. George, Staten Island at full speed, resulting in the death of 11 people while injuring another 70.  (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

"Is there anyone who thinks sexual harassment is a real thing?" some dolt asked amid Herman Cain's early "lady" problems. Former Staten Island Ferry employee Jennette Suarez does: She's filed a lawsuit, alleging that she was fired from her job for complaining about fellow staffers staring at her "intimate body parts" and making "slurping, smacking" noises at her. Passengers were victims, too, she claims, detailing how ferry employees would use security cameras to zoom "down a women's blouse or up a woman's skirt," and two-way radios to alert one another to attractive women, while using "offensive and disrespectful language." If true, it sounds like pretty run-of-the-mill workplace assholery, which doesn't make it any better. Actually, the fact that it's not shocking probably makes it worse.

Photo: Spencer Platt/Getty Images