This is probably similar to the whole "men always want sexual attention" stereotype.
Title made me think it as about amount the sex of the harassers.
But yeah, I bet it's way better more than 1/5 just that men are more afraid to come forward.
It's not surprising.
When I worked retail I was worked in the same section as this lady who was 8 or so years older than me. She would hit on me constantly, and physically grab me at certain times, but majority of my coworkers, including my superiors, were female so I felt nothing would be accomplished if I came forward and I would look like I was lying as an act of disdain towards her.
I liked her at first but when she started doing that shit in front of people at my workplace is when she really kinda lost my respect and started to irritate me. It was completely embarrassing.
Maybe I was in the wrong for thinking nothing would come of reporting it, but in my final days there I did mention it to a manager of a different section of the store, feeling he would understand more and hear me out. I never knew what became of it afterwards.
I feel like I handled it stupidly but it was my first job and I was so lost on what to do.
A symptom of "toxic masculinity", no doubt. They're probably embarrassed at the notion of coming forward because of potential ridicule from their peers, and that's not okay, like, at all.
Yet another example of how patriarchy harms men as well as women.
just my thoughts based on what I've heard in rumors and such but men, especially the older ones are more afraid of reprasals from the harraser because men are disadvantaged in sexual harassment investigations.
And then you find people who say shit like
"You're men, we should just shut up and enjoy it."
It harms literally everything.
Classic case of toxic femininity, the woman in question thinks she can do it just because she's a woman and you're a man and thinks its OK to disregard your personal space.
That literally also applies in reverse, except on the flip-side women are afraid to come forward because people choose not to believe them for some asinine reason.
I always wondered if let's say a man who was sexually harassed in work decided to file a complaint,what would happen if the woman in question (the harasser) decided to lie and say it was the other way around,that she was harassed and he was lying.
What would happen then?
I'm sure that she would be believed.
yeah if you're a guy you really need to provide some evidence, maybe record what shes saying or doing to you or something like htat
There are cases of cops literally laughing at male domestic violence victims.
If you think corporations will take sexual abuse against men seriously, well you have another thing coming.
Been sexual harassed at both of my workplaces. When I was 17 and when I was 22.
Once by a creepy old woman, second time by a co-worker who was 7 years older than me and had kids.
Luckily; first time co-worker saw what happen and was ready to kick the living shit out of the creepy 40+ yr old woman. Never seen him that angry.
Second time my boss saw what happen and the co-worker got a warning. She never did it again.
"It was just friendly" and "She is old" are both bad excuses.
i think this is probably my biggest issue with victims of harrassment trying to come out about it
like we have some kind of wild double standard everywhere except the "woke" internet where all women must be believed, but if a man raises the same problem with reversed genders, they're commonly laughed at / told that it shouldn't bother them that much, or if they're even taken seriously at all, as we've recently seen in terry crews' case, the wider public finds it strange that a 6'7" action hero / former footballer is making a big deal about some guy literally grabbing his dick in public
By default it should be assumed that victims are suffering, whether or not it seems like they took what happened to them seriously or not
As an openly bisexual man (and later a transwoman) I was routinely sexually harassed in my old place of work by other men.
I made multiple complaints but nothing really got done about it. So glad to be out of that place.
It's interesting that every example in the article is homosexual in nature. I wonder what the stats are when it comes to sexual harassment of men.
Also last fall, the EEOC sued another fast-food chain, Chipotle Mexican
Grill, alleging that it allowed a female restaurant manager in San Jose
to sexually harass a 22-year-old male shift manager by groping and
propositioning him and posting a daily “sex scoreboard” with details
about staff members’ sex lives. A mediation hearing was scheduled for
later this month. In a public statement, a Chipotle spokesman said the company does not tolerate discrimination or harassment in any form.
My fault, seems I missed that that one was perpetrated by a woman.
I would still note that the examples given, which are obviously not necessarily statistically representative, have a very high overrepresentation of male on male sexual harassment. It wouldn't surprise me, though. Men are statistically way more likely to sexually harass someone else. I don't know why that stat wouldn't carry over from straight men to gay men.
What "stat"? Considering there's a reporting bias I'm not sure how you got a stat that accounts for it.
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