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Women over 50 see sexual harassment very differently to millennials
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Somewhere between the main course and dessert at a dinner party, I became aware of a colossal chasm in the way my generation and my parents’ generation perceive sexual harassment. It was during a recent trip to my parents’ home in rural Warwickshire, England, that I found myself embroiled in conversations with family friends and neighbours about sexual harassment and sexual correctness with women over the age of 50.
I learned that some women over the age of 50 feel that, in the wake of the Harvey Weinstein scandal, we are in danger of entering an era of extreme sexual correctness, where men will feel under constant scrutiny when interacting with female counterparts. And, though I’d read—and rolled my eyes—at headlines about sexual harassment allegations going “too far”, this was the first time I’d heard a view like this uttered aloud IRL. Needless to say, I did not share their views. Read more…
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Women over 50 see sexual harassment very differently to millennials
Somewhere between the main course and dessert at a dinner party, I became aware of a colossal chasm in the way my generation and my parents’ generation perceive sexual harassment. It was during a recent trip to my parents’ home in rural Warwickshire, England, that I found myself embroiled in conversations with family friends and neighbours about sexual harassment and sexual correctness with women over the age of 50.
I learned that some women over the age of 50 feel that, in the wake of the Harvey Weinstein scandal, we are in danger of entering an era of extreme sexual correctness, where men will feel under constant scrutiny when interacting with female counterparts. And, though I’d read—and rolled my eyes—at headlines about sexual harassment allegations going “too far”, this was the first time I’d heard a view like this uttered aloud IRL. Needless to say, I did not share their views. Read more…
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