and other emotional problems that inevitably occur from being sexual harassed is disturbing and infuriating. Sexual harassment occurs anywhere a person could go; is that not a scary thought to people, especially women, everywhere? Knowing this statement is true makes sexual harassment an injustice that needs to be stopped. People refute sexual harassment as an injustice and claim behavior is just a part of human nature. Sexual harassment “…is everywhere, whether it is there or not” (Willis). People who believe this statement add that it is futile to attack behavior that is in the range of normal human response. A theory concerning a man’s need to pursue a woman in order to rise from rejection to acceptance in repeated trials is what opposing views claim. Woman also are said to want this type of attention and reject only to stimulate either or both of the two involved. Therefore concluding that sexual harassment is among people in daily situations, and conflicts such as the one exampled, should not target harassers for the over-dramatization of the victim. It seems incomprehensible excuses are made for sexual harassment, but that is all they are excuses, not reasons. This injustice puts victims into a wave of emotional distress. “Woman know what sexual harassment is. It’s when your neck hairs stand up…when you feel like you’re being stalked” (Kantrowitz 35). People making claims that human nature should not be illegal must not know or have someone close to them be a victim of sexual harassment. Men should know when women cry out NO! they are not secretly meaning yes. Not to mention sexual harassers may openly provide better grades, job opportunities, etc, if the women would grant him a sexual favor. Hence, sexual harassment indeed is an injustice and excuses in opposing viewpoints can clearly be refuted. If anything, sexual harassment is assumed to have increased over the years and...
