From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!npoiv!npois!houxm!houxa!houxi!houxz!ihnp4!ihuxn!stoltz
Newsgroups: net.social
Title: Re: Harassment? - (nf)
Article-I.D.: ihuxn.221
Posted: Sun Feb 20 16:20:46 1983
Received: Mon Feb 21 03:07:17 1983
Reply-To: stoltz@ihuxn.UUCP (Ben Stoltz)
References: zehntel.759

The problem with your defintion (harassment is known to be such by the harasser)
is that there are patterns of harrassment ingrained in our society. It is
possible to harrass someone without even knowing it. It it very easy to play
the roles outlined for us in television, radio, music, by our parents
and friends. You don't know what some one else has experienced in
their life and what they will interpret as harressment. It may be
quite painful for a women if they havebeen repeatedly been attacked by
men for you to even to say hello to them. I don't remember who it was
who said it, but in a high school sociology class I remember hearing
that reality is what one preceives it to be or somthing like that. I
thinl that harrassment is much the same way.
	It causes the harrasser no pain to harrass, but the pain and
humilation in the harrasser can vary quite a but.
	the world is so cold and unfeeling. If the woman down the hall
from you feels offended please understand. You have to realize that
women have been discriminated against for a few thousand years as have
men. Just as women have been protrayed as weak and mindless sex
objects, men have been pprtrayed as rough, cruel, and unfeeling
brutes.
	We are all humans (as much as you may doubt it). Please act
like it.
	If a picture in some ones office offends you ask youself why
and tell the person who put it there why. If you do nothing to inform
that person how you feel you are as responsible as they are. If they
do nothing about it then they are a two dimensional cut out playing a
role as old as the hills (or you are unjustified).
e