Sexual Harassment ...The Final Frontier

A well-documented (though still morphing) concept of sexual harassment has to do with how a woman reacts to things a man says or does. Many men are discovering the hard way that they have stumbled blindly into the grey-zone of this issue and have experienced how harshly women, employers, lawyers, courts and politicians can react to their carelessness.

As many readers know, it wasn't so many years ago that sexual harrassment was far too common in the workplace and yet was overlooked, denied, swept under the carpet, hidden, ignored (and the author recognizes the reader's ability to fill in the blanks here with their own words of choice).

Women internationally have, for years, experienced objectionable, offensive and harmful advances by "men," both physically as well as verbally. Measuring the trauma associated with them as individuals is as impossible and it is varied.

Has anyone noticed how, during 9/11, issues like sexual harassment kinda disappeared from the news? A sad fact about "media coverage" and focused attention is that when an attention-grabbing issue hits the press, so many other issues kind of pale in comparison and, at times, disappear.

This author has an example of something which gets almost no press at all. It will surprise some readers that the issue can be safely filed under "sexual assult."

The assult to which this author is alluding happens "almost exclusively" to men. Just as there are men who have said or done things which women consider to be sexual assult, so also men find them assulted sexually by people who might claim that they had no intentions of offending, let alone assulting, the man.

There are other people who go out of their way to sexually impact the man.