If you're ringing my doorbell eight times every three minutes and hiding behind my garbage cans, I will call the police. That is literally harassment.
I know what sexual harassment looks like. I'm also a lawyer by training and am highly aware that these behaviors should have real consequences.
Every company should have zero tolerance on sexual harassment so that victims feel secure while taking a stand.
The 'Horn 'OK' Pleassss' harassment incident and the mob attack there had sent me spiralling into a deep state of depression in 2008.
Sexual harassment and gender discrimination is real, it's far more pervasive than I think people have been willing to acknowledge.
As women and as lawyers, we must never again shy from raising our voices against sexual harassment.
Forcing victims of sexual harassment into secret arbitration proceedings is wrong because it means that nobody ever finds out what really happened.
Whether it's Hollywood or Bollywood, sexual harassment is a reality. I've experienced it first-hand, and I know many of my counterparts have as well.
The brutality of apartheid drains you of that emotion of fear if you have gone through everything you can be put through in the process of harassment.
He looked at her rather as a man looks at a problem that he would very much prefer to do without. She supposed it was a distinction of a sort to be a harassment to a king.
Harassment is about power---the undue exercise of power by a superior over a subordinate.
I have been subjected to constant harassment and humiliation by Mr. Abad Ponda with his sexist remarks and insulting comments.
Beauty provokes harassment, the law says, but it looks through men's eyes when deciding what provokes it.
At my direction, the Department's Office for Civil Rights remains committed to investigating all claims of discrimination, bullying, and harassment against those who are most vulnerable in our schools.
The only women who don't believe that sexual harassment is a real problem in this country are women who have never been in the workplace.
Workplace harassment and gender discrimination exist in all spheres, not just films. I have been lucky enough not to face it, but I don't deny its existence.
The intense campaigns against domestic violence, rape, sexual harassment, and inequity in the schools all too often depend on an image of women as weak and victimized.
I have watched the spread of violent extremism and jihadism across Europe and the U.K. with dismay, particularly given my history of experiencing threats, abuse, and harassment by Muslim fanatics.
I definitely hope women know that abuse/harassment/blackmail on social media is also a crime, and the police definitely help.
Encouraging individual firms to develop forward-leaning policies that address sexual harassment is necessary, but alone such prescriptions are insufficient.
Do you know how many women in a survey reported experiences of sexual harassment on the job? Eighty percent. It is so common. It's normalized. And it's an abuse of power.
Women cannot be equal participants in a society that views sexual assault and sexual harassment the way Donald Trump and his defenders do.
It takes courage to come forward, and I don't want any victim of sexual harassment to think twice about doing so.
We need more women in higher roles, because the tone for sexual harassment would no doubt be different.
I've been trying to reassert myself as a human and not just a current events story. I should not be the face of online harassment.
Women politicians in Pakistan have to deal with severe sexual harassment within their own parties and from their opponents.
Religious minority communities in India have endured incidents of harassment, discrimination, intimidation and violent attacks for decades, often with little hope for justice.
We all know that abuse, harassment, and worse have long invaded the entertainment ecosystem. That story goes back to the beginning of Hollywood... probably farther.
If you see harassment happening, speak up. Being harassed is terrible; having bystanders pretend they don't notice is infinitely worse.
My family and I have been the target of constant harassment and death threats, and I have been called the most vile and hateful names imaginable.
It was rare to see an Asian man and white woman together when my parents fell in love. They went through years of persecution and harassment.
I've spent many hours on national TV talking about politics and current affairs, including sexual harassment and the #MeToo Movement.
The supposedly petty sexual harassment that so many women have to endure, from Hollywood studios to the factory floor at Ford, is a national outrage that needs to end. Period.
I can't watch Kevin Spacey's show anymore, though I have loved it earlier, because he has been accused of harassment. It disgusts me as a person.
The harassment, violence, and attacks against our Asian American and Pacific Islander friends, neighbors, and community members must stop.
She was the only woman in the homicide unit, and already there had been problems between her and another detective, charges of sexual harassment, countercharges of unrelenting bitchiness.
All the legal action I've taken against newspapers has had a massively positive effect on my life and achieved exactly what I wanted, which is privacy and non-harassment.
We have to start calling sexual harassment out because only then can we start to make progress on it.
The West has a better understanding of what the word sexual abuse or harassment means. There are some concepts that they understand way better.
I don't think anybody should be subject to any sort of harassment in any way, shape, or form.
Every university has its problems. The issues range from lack of amenities, plagiarism, poor quality research, sexual harassment, faculty moonlighting, and faulty and biased recruitment.
There is no compulsion in Islam. You convert "voluntarily". But you are free not to convert by accepting subjugation, humiliation, discrimination and constant harassment. What can be more democratic?
Of all the threats to free speech in history, the one the media give the most credibility to without question is the feminist movement, which is trying to rebrand public debate as harassment.
Some women who are on top of their game have come out in the open about sexual harassment, what publicity do they require?
#MeToo is a welcome change, and I would encourage women to call out sexual harassment issues in their workplaces.
Children should be able to live a life free from bullying and harassment and it is time that we all took a stand against this.
Nobody bothered to ask me how I was doing when my livelihood was snatched away after the 'Horn Ok Pleassss' harassment episode.
Harassment doesn't just happen to 'social observers' and 'comedians' - women who express themselves publicly are reliably verbally attacked online and in person, not for their substance but for their form.
So many people who deal with sexual harassment don't have the means to file lawsuits or to get legal representation or legal advice.
I would give back every single award to be able to actually do our jobs as journalists without this kind of harassment.
I wouldn't call it a silver lining, but with more women speaking up, online harassment is beginning to be taken more seriously.
Hmm, that's not sexual harassment, baby. When I decide to get sexual, trust me, you'll know it. ~ Braden ~
I'm all for teaching about important concepts like consent; I'm also very aware of how damaging and destructive it can be to be a victim of sexual harassment.
Game studios, developers, and major publishers need to vocally speak up against the harassment of women and say this behavior is unacceptable.
I think one of the great innovations of sexual harassment law was that it did not use the word "consent." It used the word "welcome."
There's so many careers that didn't happen because women are like, 'I can't deal with this harassment. I'm going to leave this industry.'
Obviously, there is much similarity among the challenges of transgender people and all women - from health care to harassment to discrimination in the workplace.
We just were saying no more police brutality. And we had enough of police harassment in the Village and other places.
When someone is humiliating and harassing a woman, he must be knowing that the victim is needy and left with no option but to tolerate such harassment to save the job.
[Bill Clinton] gave - he settled a - he settled a sexual harassment case for $850,000 with Paula Jones in 1998.
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