Here is Tom's tale.

http://www.ifeminists.net/introduction/editorials/2004/0922rolph.html

Whilst it has very little to do with sexual harrasement. It does relate to gender politics.

This is why olo is so great. Fully fueled people with much to say.

This is the best site ever. Sexual harassment! Its all in your heads.

BLUE

Why did they marry women whose hearts were not into the land in the first place Hasbeen?

All of the women married to Farmers and Graziers [life long friends of mine] work part-time or full-time to pay for their families bills and groceries Hasbeen. 30 couples I mixed with at a recent get-together [all farmers and graziers wives] travel up to an hour daily in order to work and meet most of the household costs while raising their children. Basic fare, none of those new kitchens or renovations many people undertake in the cities.

No swish latest 'mod cons'.

These wives are on cloud nine to replace their washing machine no longer working. Or buy a few basic clothes for their kids.

Many of my friends and their mothers married to Farmers and Graziers [my aunties included]worked in town and on the land to pay for all of their luxuries. I was no different.

Your farming community must have been doing extremely well over the past 15 years [discounting recent rains].

Antiseptic <"A (very) recent survey (of my friends and work colleagues)found that none of those surveyed had ever intended to sexually harass anyone."

Ok Antiseptic....so you go up to your friends and colleagues and asked them what? "Hey guys, did you ever sexually harass a woman?"
You were surprised when they said "No, of course not!"?
What rubbish.

"Sexual harassment in the workplace is any form of unwelcome sexual attention that is, or that you find, offensive, humiliating or intimidating..."
http://au.reachout.com/find/articles/sexual-harassment-in-the-workplace

Believe me when I say that if some guy is commenting negatively or aggressively on the size of your breasts, or the unlikely chance of you 'ever getting a f###', it is NEVER a come-on.
It is sexual harassment.

Surely even you guys can tell the difference?

Houellebecq <"The rest of society either isn't affected by it or minds their own business and doesn't make a scene when they see it occurring."
'Make a scene'? In my mind, those people who stand up and say something against sexual harassment are true heroes.
Only cowards shut their mouths and let it go on in front of them.

Algoreisrich, thank you for your understanding words. At least you and CJMorgan seem to grasp the obvious conclusions that the author came to.
Real men will make a stand against sexual harassment, and THAT sort of strong behaviour is the real turn-on for the women around them.

Fact is women even have more scope for standing up to harassers as they're not as likely to be punched in the head as men.

Really? What planet have you lived on Houellebecq? Obviously not around blokes working in the real world.

Physical and sexual harrassment is not gender related, I agree with you on your previous comments posted on OLO.

Although there are still many blokes in the workforce and via other avenues, I meet who are not bothered one iota about the consequences of both physical and sexual harrassment or violence used against women, particularly towards their 'partners in life' or women they are interested in getting to know, or appearing vulnerable in the workforce.

There is always the element of sexual harrassers in both genders in society, why is it, that after working with thousands of people regularly over 30 years, I notice it more with males as opposed to females?

Do female 'sexual harrassers' hide their behaviour well?