Sexual harassment

[meboriqua at aol.com]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at y..., blpurdom at y... wrote:

> I had a friend in college who was a 
> classics major also and went to Italy on a study program for a 
> summer; a professor of ours warned her before she went (she is quite 
> stunning) that she would be proposed to on every streetcorner.  
> Propositioned was more like it, and her arse was black and blue from 
> pinching.>

A friend of mine spent her junior year (college) in Paris, and she was 
once chased back to her apartment by a man who thought she was pretty.  
He stood outside her building and yelled for her to come down until he 
gave up and left.  She was terrified.

I can only explain this by assuming that men from different cultures 
expect very different responses from women than we do here in America.  
Perhaps my friend should have rejected him differently than she did; I 
don't know.  

Then again, here in NYC, if a man calls out to a woman in the street 
and she ignores him, she often gets a "You b***h!" yelled at her.  Why 
any man would think being hissed at by a stranger is worthy of 
positive attention is beyond me.

--jenny from ravenclaw **********************************