The liberal idea of tolerance is more and more a kind of intolerance. What it means is 'Leave me alone; don't harass me; I'm intolerant towards your over-proximity.
Slavoj ŽižekTags: liberalism intolerance tolerance harassment sexual-harassment
Beauty provokes harassment, the law says, but it looks through men's eyes when deciding what provokes it.
Naomi WolfTags: sexuality equality self-esteem beauty society advertising feminism law rape culture magazines aging cosmetics double-standards objectification body-image marketing pornography eating-disorders images sexual-violence harassment sexual-harassment plastic-surgery diet-industry cosmetic-surgery fashion-industry mass-culture
When a stranger on the street makes a sexual comment, he is making a private assessment of me public. And though I’ve never been seriously worried that I would be attacked, it does make me feel unguarded, unprotected.
Regardless of his motive, the stranger on the street makes an assumption based on my physique: He presumes I might be receptive to his unpoetic, unsolicited comments. (Would he allow a friend to say “Nice tits” to his mother? His sister? His daughter?) And although I should know better, I, too, equate my body with my soul and the result, at least sometimes, is a deep shame of both.
Rape is a thousand times worse: The ultimate theft of self-control, it often leads to a breakdown in the victim’s sense of self-worth. Girls who are molested, for instance, often go on to engage in risky behavior—having intercourse at an early age, not using contraception, smoking, drinking, and doing drugs. This behavior, it seems to me, is at least in part because their self-perception as autonomous, worthy human beings in control of their environment has been taken from them.
Tags: sexuality society violence rape culture entitlement sexual-abuse abuse rape-culture sexual-violence harassment sexual-harassment hypersexualization
If your flirting strategy is indistinguishable from harassment, it's not everyone else that's the problem.
John ScalziTags: flirting behavior harassment sexual-harassment
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