This morning I appeared on Channel Seven Sunrise to discuss Dr Gabrielle McMullin’s comments that given the level of sexual harassment in the medical profession and the penalties women faced when they complained, it may be better for them to submit than to take matters further. While it is good that Dr McMullin has exposed the shocking reality of gender inequality within the profession, I was concerned that her response suggested women have to make concessions rather than be treated with respect and as equals.
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Here in the UK there are existing laws criminalising male sexual harassment/male sexual demands that female colleagues/workers must enact the role of mens’ disposable sexual service stations within the workplace.
Whilst these laws exist this doesn’t mean they are commonly upheld by our Male Supremacist Legal System because as usual the onus is on individual women to prove that x male subjected them to male sexual harassment and/or male sexual assault. Male controlled workplaces rarely support individual women who challenge male sexual harassment of female colleagues so the woman commonly finds she either has to endure the male predator or leave. UK’s employment tribunals have been decimated by our women-hating male controlled coalition government. This means individual women have to pay the cost of taking a male predator to an employment tribunal whereas before the state took responsibility for the financial cost.
However the answer Dr. McMullen is not to advise women to submit to male sexual assault within the workplace because pandemic male sexual violence against women and girls continues to escalate outside what men continue to believe is their male only workplaces. Women submitting to male sexual predation sends the message such male criminal behaviour is ‘okay’ and a male (pseudo) sex right!
I am not blaming women because it is very hard for an individual woman to challenge male pseudo sex right to her body within the workplace but individual women need to know that collective action by female colleagues does work to challenge/prosecute the male sexual predator.
Women know that male sexual predators within the workplace never ever target just one female colleague because these men always seek out women they know are in subordinate work roles and/or who do not have the institutional power within the workplace to lodge a complaint with Human Resources. This is why female collective action against the numerous male sexual predators is the only successful course of action to take.
Women who are interested in how to deal with those numerous male sexual predators/male women-haters who use every means to oppress women within the workplace and what men claim are their male only streets; public transport and public parks, should read this book.
Back off: How To Confront and Stop (male) Sexual Harassment and (male) Harassers by Martha J. Langelan. This is book isn’t just another one telling women ‘you are responsible for mens’ women-hating behaviour’ – this book explains clearly why innumerable males harass women within the workplace and outside in what men believe is their ‘male only public spaces.’ The book also provides real practical measures women can take collectively and/or individually to hold men to account.
Most male predators are shocked when they discover the woman/women they are threatening/harassing does not submit but responds assertively. Men believe all women are innately weak but we are not – that is a male lie but sadly it is a very effective male lie.
Collective female action does work which is why men too work collectively by protecting/supporting/excusing/denying pandemic male violence/male harassment of women and girls.