Title : "The chairman of the Court of Master Sommeliers, Americas, resigned on Friday, after... 13 women went public with accusations of sexual misconduct in the court’s highest ranks."
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"The chairman of the Court of Master Sommeliers, Americas, resigned on Friday, after... 13 women went public with accusations of sexual misconduct in the court’s highest ranks."
The NYT reports.All of the women who came forward to The Times have been candidates for the title of master sommelier, an honor conferred by the court after a long process of evaluations and exams, some of which are graded in secret. All of the men are master sommeliers who had the power to help, or hurt, the women’s progress....
At 25, [Marie-Louise Friedland] had passed the introductory exam, and joined a study group to practice for the next level, while also working full-time. Mr. Broglie offered to help her study for the tasting portion of the exam in private sessions at his home [which]... proved to be preludes to sexual invitations.
“At first I was flattered, but also very confused and afraid,” she said. “I never enjoyed our encounters, and really tried to make that clear in the hopes that he would stop trying.” She said she rejected most of his sexual advances, but had to do so in a friendly way in order to preserve the professional relationship.... “I forced myself in my head to treat it as a fling or relationship, to be able to wrap my brain around the interactions,” Ms. Friedland said. “But it never fit. We weren’t dating. We never spoke about it. I felt like I was on call for sex from someone I couldn’t say no to.”
As she advanced in the wine profession, that power dynamic — and the question of whether she had earned her success — haunted her. She moved to San Francisco to work as a sommelier at Quince, one of the most prestigious and popular restaurants in San Francisco, then became wine director at State Bird Provisions, a “dream job.”[but] the emotional cost of working with the many master sommeliers in the Bay Area, was too high. She eventually left the city, the profession and the court....
Isn't this sommelier process mostly a scam anyway? There's a mysterious process to get a valuable credential on the say-so of purported authorities.
Here's an article at Eater: "Is sommelier certification bullshit?" I wouldn't trust the already-certified, especially the wielders of power, to say it's not bullshit.
What a temptation to those authorities to offer a shortcut to success when it serves their personal, sexual interests! And what a temptation to the credential-seeker to take the shortcut! And then if that's how you got your "dream job," what's to save you from self-doubt? The NYT says it plainly: She was "haunted"!
ADDED: And then there was "The Legendary Study That Embarrassed Wine Experts Across the Globe" (Real Clear Science)("In a sneaky study, [a PhD candidate] dyed a white wine red and gave it to 54 oenology (wine science) students. The supposedly expert panel overwhelmingly described the beverage like they would a red wine.")
ALSO: The NYT concerns itself with the women who took the offered shortcut and regretted it. What about the women who did not? Think about how they were hurt. And what about the men who were denied even a choice whether to trade sexual favors for advancement? They too are hurt. I'd also like to see some investigation into the lookism within the sommelier profession. That's not unrelated.
All of the women who came forward to The Times have been candidates for the title of master sommelier, an honor conferred by the court after a long process of evaluations and exams, some of which are graded in secret. All of the men are master sommeliers who had the power to help, or hurt, the women’s progress....
At 25, [Marie-Louise Friedland] had passed the introductory exam, and joined a study group to practice for the next level, while also working full-time. Mr. Broglie offered to help her study for the tasting portion of the exam in private sessions at his home [which]... proved to be preludes to sexual invitations.
“At first I was flattered, but also very confused and afraid,” she said. “I never enjoyed our encounters, and really tried to make that clear in the hopes that he would stop trying.” She said she rejected most of his sexual advances, but had to do so in a friendly way in order to preserve the professional relationship.... “I forced myself in my head to treat it as a fling or relationship, to be able to wrap my brain around the interactions,” Ms. Friedland said. “But it never fit. We weren’t dating. We never spoke about it. I felt like I was on call for sex from someone I couldn’t say no to.”
As she advanced in the wine profession, that power dynamic — and the question of whether she had earned her success — haunted her. She moved to San Francisco to work as a sommelier at Quince, one of the most prestigious and popular restaurants in San Francisco, then became wine director at State Bird Provisions, a “dream job.”[but] the emotional cost of working with the many master sommeliers in the Bay Area, was too high. She eventually left the city, the profession and the court....
Isn't this sommelier process mostly a scam anyway? There's a mysterious process to get a valuable credential on the say-so of purported authorities.
Here's an article at Eater: "Is sommelier certification bullshit?" I wouldn't trust the already-certified, especially the wielders of power, to say it's not bullshit.
What a temptation to those authorities to offer a shortcut to success when it serves their personal, sexual interests! And what a temptation to the credential-seeker to take the shortcut! And then if that's how you got your "dream job," what's to save you from self-doubt? The NYT says it plainly: She was "haunted"!
ADDED: And then there was "The Legendary Study That Embarrassed Wine Experts Across the Globe" (Real Clear Science)("In a sneaky study, [a PhD candidate] dyed a white wine red and gave it to 54 oenology (wine science) students. The supposedly expert panel overwhelmingly described the beverage like they would a red wine.")
ALSO: The NYT concerns itself with the women who took the offered shortcut and regretted it. What about the women who did not? Think about how they were hurt. And what about the men who were denied even a choice whether to trade sexual favors for advancement? They too are hurt. I'd also like to see some investigation into the lookism within the sommelier profession. That's not unrelated.
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