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> blame the victim of sexual harassment for being there and not finding a way to not be harassed. There were examples of sexism in the article but I didn't see
by Klockan 9y ago
> blame the victim of sexual harassment for being there and not finding a way to not be harassed.
There were examples of sexism in the article but I didn't see anything about sexual harassment, they are very different things and shouldn't be mixed up.
- dragonwriter 9y agoBlatant sexism in the workplace typically creates a differentially-hostile environment based on sex, which is all that is necessary for sexual harassment (at least, in US law; legally speaking, the definition is obviously jurisdiction dependent.) (Lots of harassment stories are about unwanted advances or actual sexual assault, which also is, in the workplace, harassment but is not necessary for harassment.)
- Klockan 9y agoI didn't say that we should ignore sexism, I said that we shouldn't cry "sexual harassment" when we mean sexism because they are different things. Edit: Ah, now I see, I think we read the story a bit differently. I read the following part as being said to everyone and not just her, if he had singled her out then it would be sexual harassment but to me this looks like it is directed at the entire group: > When this director arrived, we were all seating around a large table, on 2 benches. The first thing he said was "Move over, I need room for my big dick"