Sexual Harassment - Will It Ever Be Eradicated?

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With the recent allegations against film producer Harvey Weinstein, the question again has been raised of how do we stop sexual harassment? Can we stop it? I think with the right mentality and the right education, we can.


I am male. I grew up without a mother and I was never explicitly taught the right or wrong way to treat a woman. I just figured it out for myself that women were people and not objects for my own entertainment or things to be possessed or prizes to be won. But there are some out there who do not understand that women are not there for their sole amusement.

Liar: Andrew Earlham was clearly in the wrong.

Take for instance, the gripping ITV drama 'Liar' that's just concluded it's first season in the UK. It starts off with widowed surgeon Andrew Earlham (Ioan Gruffudd) and newly single schoolteacher Laura Neilson going on a date, they spend a lovely evening together until we see Laura waking up believing Andrew raped her. Then we see Andrew protest his innocence most vigorously, we don't know who to believe...


While that case is rather extreme and most definitely abhorrent, Sexual harassment of women is something that should have a zero tolerance policy. Unfortunately, society has minimized the effect of catcalling and harassing women as 'just something that happens'. The mindset of a person who sees an attractive woman and thinks that calling out them in an explicit manner is the right way to go about things is extremely wrong. There's something called respecting boundaries and you will cross them every time you verbally harass a woman.

But can this behaviour be stopped? We can only but try to curb it. It is clear from many experiments performed that towards women it has more of a zero tolerance policy than if it was a woman harassing a man.Why the difference? Because women getting harassed is more prevalent, perhaps?

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