Have We Taken The Concept Of Sexual Harassment To Far?
Others may say, that it has caused a space for finger pointing.
What are your thoughts?
what can I say? I feel like women can do/say anything and men just tolerate it. it's not manly to complain. But women can, apparently.
And some women weaponize this against natural male behavior. Like noticing a new hair style on a female coworker "Wow, I see the new hair-doo. Looks great on you - really bring out your eyes!" with a friendly wink. The response used to be "Oh, thank you for noticing, [person]!" and a giggle. That was the 80s, and mom would come home saying everyone at the office LOVED her hair. And Dad would come home and say that he was complimented on his new tie by both of the secretaries and one of the guys.
But, these days that hair compliment can quickly get you escorted out of the office with all your stuff, if you get my meaning. Probably within 15 minutes.
Now it's all about women being precious and victims, but men are assailants and disposable. It's unfair and sexist that women don't sign up for the draft. Why don't they? It's been 50 years since the last draft... what's the problem? The laws were not made for equality. they were made to criminalize male behavior, even though we're supposedly the same. Male toxicity is just a made up phrase that sounds bad to hate men. Jeez, even kids in school are getting the cops called on them for saying something they didn't know was sexually offensive. It's all bull.
Sorry, but these laws scare me a bit. I have to explain this weird unfair stuff to my son, and it doesn't all make sense. He's getting confused at this crap from school on what's acceptable and not, what's equal and what's not. After a long discussion I landed on "You're a male so this is something you have to deal with as a male, even if it's unfair. But, we all have to deal with it so that means you do too - so don't complain. Now shut up and go to bed." ... ok, last part I didn't say, but you get the kind of weird crap I have to deal with as a male Dad with a son that has questions.
I think it's good to understand the innocent man. Not the harasser but the one that is trying to be respectful. Give helpful hints to him. Especially with sex hit him bluntly over the head with how you feel.
I just watched a movie about a guy that became friends with a girl that social distanced and kept to herself. When being friends she made it clear that she did not want to sleep with him. But a surprising part was he had a very bad day and he just decided to take her in a heat of passion. It clearly was not right and it damaged their friendship. They later on got back together as friends but I say that because he was not painted as a rapist or a bad character in the movie. He was actually very respectful. What this says is even good guys make dumb mistakes in the heat of a moment. But it's also up to each of us to say no. If she's clearly drunk, it's ok for a guy to say no I'm not having sex or if a girl feels not into the moment or not as ready as he is to have sex it's ok for her to say no. It's very very very important to stay strongly vocal with each other. I'd argue bluntly so. This allows confusion and regret less likely to take place. It's amazing what someone is willing to do if you just make yourself clear about it
I think it’s great that more and more people are speaking out about sexual harassment/abuse because I feel like especially woman who have been sexually abused were oppressed and couldn’t say anything about it, so I think it’s great that men and woman are being confident and getting justice
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It's all fkin drama
Yea some people doing that, but rarely
Yes. It's part of the reason I don't date: if the date goes badly I might end up being harassed by the police, like Aziz Ansari was!
As a culture we have been promoting the courtship ritual of playing hard to get. Which has served to blur the line between innocent flirting and full on harassment; as the primary difference is how the lady feels about the guy. This ritual has been terrible for men and women; and should be abandoned post haste.
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