Is it sexual harassment if...

[MrCynical]

Except in the event that the person has already refused the other's advances, or are deliberatly pressurizing them to agree by causing problems at work, I don't regard any of the above as sexual harassment.

 

[C~G]

Very hard to say any of those.

I think it has lot depending of interaction between people what can be thought as sexual harassment.

I have found that being friend's with younger women in workerplace and otherwise can be extremely hard nowadays. They will expect that you're trying to hit on them while you're just trying to be friendly. But it depends a lot from who we are talking about. The most difficult thing is that if you have feeling that there might be something between you and this other person or that other person is uncomfortable in the situation. It starts to make you feel also uncomfortable which makes it a lot more troublesome.

Quite often you want to get the formalities out of the way so you can be then friends.

 

[Mathilda]

@ C~G - How old are you?
When you say "younger women", do you mean young women, or women younger than yoursel?

 

[C~G]

@ C~G - How old are you?
When you say "younger women", do you mean young women, or women younger than yoursel?

Between 25-30

I have noticed that some women younger than me take me as some kind of threat. Don't get me wrong with many young women I get along very well but it seems that with some you don't want to get overly friendly or they will think you're hitting on them.

I think it has to do with the women experiences with other men and also somehow my behaviour. Would like to sometimes know which of my characteristics make them feel that way. It makes me feel sleazy which I'm certainly not.

Whoever it is, I always make the person count first, then comes gender.

 

[Bungholio]

I guess the ones directed towards men aren't harrasment, or the ones of just talking.

 

[Paradigne]

All of the above IF they take place at the work place. If they take place in a outside environment (chance meeting at a bar, etc) then they are not sexual harassment until turned down.

 

[Neonanocyborgasm]

This is kinda like the terrorism thing, I'll post down some situations and you use the poll to say which ones you think are sexual harassment. So is it sexual harssment if:

I don't think any of these are sexual harassement.

The only thing I'd consider sexual harassement is when an employee's job (or promotion) is leveraged against her willingness to perform sexual favors. Otherwise, I consider sexual harassement to be a useless law, because it is vague and by that virtue, tempts complaint for any trivial perceived infraction. In fact, I haven't seen a single workplace enforce it to the letter of the law, although much lip service is paid. In the medical field, for example, the staff are constantly flirting with each other, dating, and sleeping together, even in conditions in which one partner is the superior of the other. I have never seen or heard of this leading to any conflict.

 

[chorte]

I don't consider any of these sexual harassment. However, assuming that these take place an America, a lawsuit could easily be filed for any of these actions. So, while I don't think of these as sexual harassment, society certainly does.

 

[bender19]

Asking for phone numbers or complimenting someone on their looks, i don't think is sexual harrassment.

Every female at my work place has my number and I've had an older female manager at my workplace make sexually suggestive comments and advances towards me, I dont consider it sexual harrassment.

 

[Stormrage]

I saw somewhere that joke where an ugly secretary barges in the boss` office and says :"All the women in the office are sueing (sp?) you for sexual harassement, except me. So I`m sueing you for discrimination."

I harass my female co-workers on a daily basis, and they harass me, and its lotsa fun!

 

[Mr Moron]

My understanding is that if the other person thinks it's sexual harassment, it is. That there are no other guidlines beyond that.

 

[aussieboy]

Between 25-30

I have noticed that some women younger than me take me as some kind of threat. Don't get me wrong with many young women I get along very well but it seems that with some you don't want to get overly friendly or they will think you're hitting on them.

I think it has to do with the women experiences with other men and also somehow my behaviour. Would like to sometimes know which of my characteristics make them feel that way. It makes me feel sleazy which I'm certainly not.

Whoever it is, I always make the person count first, then comes gender.

Well, it's hardly surprising, since the girls are taught in high school to avoid talking with a male as much as possible. For example, my PE teacher was doing a course on 'self-defense', discouraging women to help any male on the street, for fear of rape.

 

[Tenochtitlan]

As long as there isn't any forcing, unwanted touching, or blatantly offensive language used, it should not be considered sexual harassment. Voted 'none of these'.

 

[GenMarshall]

Well, it's hardly surprising, since the girls are taught in high school to avoid talking with a male as much as possible. For example, my PE teacher was doing a course on 'self-defense', discouraging women to help any male on the street, for fear of rape.

Misandry in the making in making women think that all men are bad And yet they wonder why many men are afraid to approach women whom they feel attracted to. .

These days when a woman can slap you with a sexual harassment suit for even just looking at a woman you find atractive has gotten to the point of rediculous. Attention women, not all men are bad, not all men are rapists. So go put a HELMET ON!!!.

(And yes I do listen to the comedian named Brad Stine, thats where I got that "PUT A HELMET ON!!!" quote )

 

[Ace]

My understanding is that if the other person thinks it's sexual harassment, it is. That there are no other guidlines beyond that.

Well, just one more...Can the plantiff's lawyer convince a jury that it is sexual harassment...

 

[Shylock]

All the odd numbered ones. Women can do no wrong.

And they are most definatly sexual harrassment if I do any of them.