> I'm not totally okay with blackballing brilliant people for touching someone's thigh.

Are you saying you'd be fine with it if they weren't brilliant? Or that touching the thigh of a junior in your organization, who you are also hitting on in texts, should just be OK in general, for both brilliant and non-brilliant managers?

I mean either way I think you were born a few decades too late, but for clarity's sake, I'm curious what you're getting at.