Is it ok for a woman to file sexual harassment if she does the exact same thing? On Saturday at my job a coworker was fired for saying, “Do some work and stop being such a Vagina”. And her response was “Stop being such a Dick, I’m tired, I was out at the club last night”. So the male coworker was fired because he used the term “Vagina” but the women just had a stern talking to about using the word “Dick”. She was the one who filed the grievance but I feel that it shouldn’t matter. How can one word be worse than the other? It really made me mad because the male coworker actually does his work and doesn’t complain much. While the female just sits around and lets others do the work for her while she complains. The argument was heated because the female was just sitting down letting others do her work because she was “tired”. But she is always tired and the male was mad because there was a lot of work that needed to be done.
He fighting to get his job back, with back pay for the lost time. But it’s a fight he shouldn’t have to make. They both should have been fired for using the terms in a derogatory way.
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Im sure if the guy wanted to file a similar grievence against the girl she would have the same consequences. It depends on the person wether or not they find sexual harassmet offensive. And if a man or woman feels they are being sexually harassed It is ok for both of them to come forward and tell someone about it especially and employer
The thing is that he could not because she filed for it first. He said if she was filing then he would to but they denied him saying he could not do it just because she filed it first.
In most situations where sexual harassment takes place men are seen as the aggressors. Which is clearly noted in the situation that occured where the man yelled at the woman and called her an innapropriate name and was fired. Yet, the girl said just as much as the guy, and was only repremanded. What was interesting was the girl filed a complaint for the man harrasing her, yet I bet she never mentioned what she said. I feel like the girls side was taken, and they didn't even care to listen to the man.
I agree with CallMeSasha, I would think that if the guy filed a similar grievance against the girl BEFORE she filed it against him, she would have the same consquences. Unfortunately the social standards is that "dick" is not as harsh as "vagina." But, like the other commenter said, in most cases of sexual harassment, men are seen as the aggressor which is probably why he got had such a problem with it. Unfortunately, I'm not saying that's right, but it's true.
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