‘Badonkadonk’ butt slap & more costs Long Island fire company $85K in harassment case
Beatrice Lozada, 35, is a single mom who volunteered for the Elmont, N.Y. Fire Department’s Truck Company 1 in 2006 and 2007, The New York Post reported. She filed a Division of Human Rights complaint against the truck company in 2011, alleging that her lieutenant repeatedly said “badonkadonk” and slapped her rear end. Other firefighters at the company began to follow suit.
“Badonkadonk” is slang for a “curvaceous” woman’s behind, according to Urban Dictionary (explicit). That definition was actually cited in the Division of Human Rights ruling, according to the Post. The term was also popularized in part by Trace Adkin’s 2005 Top 40 hit “Honky Tonk Badonkadonk” (video).
The Long Island fire department was also fined $25,000 over the complaint.
Julia Marsh & Lorena Mongelli, NY Post:
“They made a lot of comments about my body. I have a very big butt and they would make a lot of comments about that,” Lozada told The Post on Wednesday, saying the taunting drove her to cover her curves while on duty.
And he (Administrative Law Judge Robert Tuosto ) specifically singled out his “use of a vulgarism to describe a part of her body” in awarding the five-figure sum., adding that the Elmont firemen “acted more like members of a college fraternity rather than those sworn to protect the public against fire emergencies.”
But the taunts didn’t end with “badonkadonk”: Lozada also received a text from one of her 35 male co-workers during a firehouse meeting in 2009 that read, “I want to eat your p—-,” the ruling revealed.
