Men in tailored suits bidding for plastic surgery that promises to “add spice to your wife”. Ignoring the event brochure’s full-page warning against sexual harassment, these same men grope, pinch and fondle young women’s bodies. A businessman complains a woman isn’t drunk enough, pushes alcohol on her, and demands she remove her knickers and dance on a table.
You’d be forgiven for thinking these were scenes from Margaret Atwood’s Jezebel club depicted in The Handmaid’s Tale. Not so — instead these are experiences women shared with the Financial Times for the paper’s expose of “the most un-PC event of the year”: the Presidents Club Charity Dinner at the Dorchester Hotel.
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