“Family Ties Tested: Father Defies Tradition as Son Rejects Family Friend’s Daughter, Unraveling Unexpected Drama!”
But his dad disagreed and sided with him; he listened when the son told him that the girl has been harassing him
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Men experience harassment and violence but are less likely to address and talk about it
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Gender stereotypes are hard to get out of our heads. Many of us might still think that harassment, be it verbal, physical, or sexual, doesn’t happen to men or happens too seldom to be significant. However, statistics and stories like this one paint a very different picture.
Men do experience harassment, and we ought to talk about it more. In a 2024 #MeToo survey, 42% of male respondents said they had experienced sexual harassment or assault at least once in their lives. In fact, 18% of the men surveyed said this happened for the first time before the age of 18.
What’s more, men are less likely to report such harms and seek formal treatment for them than women. Many fear their self-image, masculinity, and sexual orientation will be questioned if they do. One NIH study found that men usually react to harassment with passivity, acceptance, or minimization.
Teaching teens about consent and rejection is crucial to avoid misunderstandings like these
That’s why it’s important to teach teens that harassment doesn’t only happen to girls and women. The experts at Every Body Curious, an educational series about sexuality for the youth, write that if we want teens not to become perpetrators of any kind of unwanted advances, we need to teach them to take rejection well.
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