“A single incident of harassing behaviour can be sufficient to create a hostile working environment. Even the implicit possibility of harassing behaviour can serve to remind women of the basis on which they have been admitted to the workplace, that is, that they are required to ‘run a gauntlet of sexual abuse in return for the privilege of being allowed to work and make a living’. Columbia University Law professor Katherine Franke has emphasised the pervasive harm of harassment as going beyond the detriment done to its individual targets, to a construction of the workplace as a man’s world in which the violence of sexual harassment is a way of performing masculinity, or at least, a stereotypical version of virility. Women are permitted to participate in this toxic theatre as long as they consent to give men pleasure while they are there by acting the part of a spectacle, not that of a person of dignity.”
- The Making of Women’s Unfreedom: sexual harassment as harm by Helen Pringle
loooved kate moore’s latest… it’s an incredibly inspiring woman’s story. to be able to see (and write! and share!) a vision of a world so different from the present you live in is such an amazing radical act.
