Men Being Victims Of Sexual Harassment

It’s always an established fact that women are prone to sexual harassment. At work, school and even at home, women are always prone to various advances by men or even by other women.

This is a very traumatic experience that has led the society to promulgate laws that will prevent and heavily persecute those who sexually harass women.

But a shift in the focus of harassment is taking place.

Women are still prone to sexual harassments but increasingly, men are also experiencing harassment. Like the harassment that happens to women around the world, harassment to men should also be prevented as much as possible.

The alarming rise on harassment has been reported in the American Sociological Review. The study that shows the increasing harassment on men was conducted by the University of Minnesota.

This conclusion was reached after extensive research and questioning of adult men and women about harassment experience. While women have reported experiencing sexual harassment, men are also experiencing harassment.

It even gets worst since the harassment is not just based on sexual harassment. Men are also experiencing harassment by other men because of their activities and even in their financial standing.

The harassment experienced by men is not just based on their sexuality. Many men are being insulted and harassed by other men especially the more muscular and successful.

Men that perceive themselves as “manlier” often harass those that do things or involved in activities that oppose the idea on how a man should behave.

This type of harassments can also happen to women. Aside from sexual harassment, women could be harassed based on their educational achievement; financial standing or simply inability to do things at work or at school could solicit ridicule from men and women.

These harassments are especially dangerous when they are experienced by adolescents since this will affect their self perception when they reach adulthood.

Further investigation even reveals a starting truth about these harassments. Most of the individuals that have experienced a variety of harassment fail to see their experience as actual harassment.

This behavior was particularly noticed in men since they consider these as simply taunting or jokes. But when they were confronted about this behavior by the researchers, they started to realize that they are experiencing harassment that can have significant affect in their future.

This form of harassment should be addressed as soon as possible. Everyone has to be aware that taunting and joking about the current status of an individual is a form of harassment.

Adolescents who are experiencing this type of problem should put a stop to this type of harassment immediately. They can tell their supervisors, teachers or parents if they are still in school.

It is important to stop this type of harassment as soon as possible since this will become an acceptable act for men. They will become the subject of taunts and their self esteem will never improve. This will have significant effects on their future especially on their chosen career and personal life.