Beauty Is Beastly: Good Looks Cost Her Job, Worker Claims

A woman construction worker filed a lawsuit today claiming that she was fired because her good looks distracted male employees and caused them to have accidents on the job.

“Is it my fault? I shouldn’t get the sack because men can’t keep their minds on the job,” said 24-year-old Tanya Graovac, who brought the action at the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission.

She said it was not her fault if “somebody apparently cut his finger.”

Graovac, who was dismissed in June, told the newspaper Australian that she didn’t mind “wolf whistles” and suggestive remarks from male workers but that she was not prepared to accept being fired for being too good-looking.