Challenging masculinity: male-on-male sexual harassment?

"It's about the use of homophobic behavior to stigmatize any man who doesn't meet gender stereotypes for masculinity," she said. Illegal conduct--sometimes dismissed as "horseplay" or "locker-room antics"--increasingly includes sexual taunts, simulated sex acts, use of female pronouns, and threats of sexual aggression, she said. Offenders aim to humiliate their targets by challenging their masculinity.
the number of sexual harassment claims filed by men has more than doubled in the past 10 years.

"Perhaps the culture is changing enough that a man feels able to [report harassment] without any further loss of power or self-esteem."..................What do you think about this last quote from this?


http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1...

Sexual harassment claims filed by men with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) has grown from 9% of all charges in fiscal 1992 to 15% in 2003. Many of those claims involve male-on-male harassment; harassment of men by women is rarer, according to legal experts.
Second source...
http://www.usatoday.com/money/workplace/...

I think that last quote makes a lot of sense. I know I've read about under-reporting of male on male rape due to embarrassment, and it makes sense that reporting of rape or sexual harassment would increase as the culture changed. At least in my workplaces in academia, the culture has changed a lot. We didn't talk about sexual harassment in the 70s, it was something taken pretty seriously in the 80s, but we never got to the point of mandatory attendance at workshops about sexual harassment until the last few years.

Company boardrooms will universally freeze operations the day that men will be entitled to claim sexual harassment on a homo basis just because they lost power or self esteem when another male (or female for that matter) made them lose face over a negotiation. This is seriously redonkulous. Get it into perspective people!

Workplace bullying is another matter altogether... and the dealing with it should have nothing to do with gender or gender preference. But a company boardroom is fair game - how are we going to regulate that? Shareholders exercising moral ideals?... lol hahahaha

It simply means that men are gradually losing their sense of masculinity and, consequently, are becoming more feminine. It shows that feminism is having a profound impact on men in America.

Before you know it, feminists will have found a way for men to breast feed the children while women go shopping.

"Feminism is teaching boys that masculine qualities are bad and feminine qualities are the golden standard. These males are mostly result of feminist environment." Absolutely, "dsds."