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  • (Score: 2, Flamebait) by DrkShadow on Monday March 03, @09:23PM (2 children)

    by DrkShadow (1404) on Monday March 03, @09:23PM (#1395138)

    > It is equally or even less (or more?)[1] impossible that male harassing a male could actually happen in real life.

    What you seem to not get is: men don't bitch about it. It's how men interact. Women do it to women, too. Women *DO* do it to men. Yet only women bitch about it, and only when men do it to them.

    The problem is so profound that even when men *don't* do it to women, women report it regardless. And regardless whatever the man did, the woman must be cared for, must be protected - and so the man failed, no matter what.

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  • (Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 04, @02:24AM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 04, @02:24AM (#1395153)

    Also, any M --> M, F --> M or F --> F sexual harassment will be investigated carefully before any assumptions are made. Any claim of M --> F sexual harassment is automatically assumed to be true - guilty until proven innocent.

    • (Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 04, @08:45AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 04, @08:45AM (#1395180)

      The problem is with M --> F sexual harassment historically is that it was not taken seriously. It was often just dismissed or brushed under the carpet. Things changed from essentially victim blaming or accusing the female of hysteria to believing the victim. In many cases this is a useful way of approaching the situation. The problem is that there are people who will make malicious and vexatious claims of harassment against others. Mounting a robust legal defence is expensive and beyond the means of many people.