Perplexed? Looks like a statement made in an inebriated state? Well, the answer is a both a Yes and a No. No because the author is not in an inebriated state, however the society that is listening is definitely is. Years of hardwiring and constant input from media about the problems faced by women, the society, including men themselves, believe that harassment of men in any form, sexual being one of them, is a funny topic.

This is quite natural because, Too Much Audio Visual input jeopardizes the cognitive ability of the brain. Because of continuous bombardment into the media regarding the problems of women, men's problems have become irrelevant now. Even a mention sparks humor and people tend to ignore it first unless something legally outrageous act like a road show or a media event is done to draw attention, even then people forget it the moment it's over.

And sexual harassment of man is a topic which never gains ground, although sexual harassment of men is going on. Before going into details I will first talk about what I mean by the phrase, "Sexual Harassment".

Sexual Harassment is a type of harassment that occurs to any individual due to the sexuality of either the individual in question or any other individual.

Women often complain of sexual harassment and say that a particular man looked at them in an obnoxious manner or made some lewd comments on the dress or some ‘indecent proposal' was made et al.

But it does not end there. First it has to be realized that why only ‘some' women are ‘sexually harassed'? Is it not a fact that those women do dress skimpily to draw attention? Otherwise who stops them from dressing normally like other women who do not complain of harassment?

And when they dress skimpily to attract ‘MEN' (obviously, unless the woman is a lesbian), and arouse the sexuality of men and then complain against the same men for making remarks, is that not a SEXUAL HARASSMENT of men? Of course it is. Also if the woman drags the man to a police station or files a case against the man because he reacted (as part of natural tendency), to the skimpily clad woman is also SEXUAL HARASSMENT of the man since he is harassed because of the SEXUALITY of the woman.

There's an ad shown on TV wherein a woman inspector, inspecting for drunk drivers, asks the man to repeatedly give breath samples as she finds freshness in his breaths and later allows the man to go. Just imagine this ad with a girl being asked to do so by a male inspector, immediately the Women Empowerment Brigade and a volley of Women Pamperers would have jumped into action, marked off the ad as ‘sexist' and would have had it off the air.

But just because the target is a man, everyone is silent, how is this not portrayal of men as SEX OBJECTS and how manhood is not SEXUALLY HARASSED by this ad? A question to ponder over and would probably also answer, Can Men be Sexually Harassed?

In my opinion the answer is YES and men do need protection from that as well.

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