Where Have All the Good Men Gone? A Tale of Sexual Harassment

By Phil La Duke

I wrote this piece over a year ago and shopped it around to the magazines for which I routinely write only to have it rejected. “It’s off-putting” I was told. “No one wants to read about sexual harassment”, I was told. People are tired of “women’s issues” I was told.

I would like to say things have gotten better in the world, but as the election cycle is in full swing, you can expect more accusations and even more people denouncing the accusers and assassinating their characters. I have become the voice that no one wants to hear, because I am talking about subjects that make people squirm.

I’m tired of hearing about sexual harassment; not because I think the allegations are wrong or that I think it’s blown out of proportion or because the allegations alone ruin promising careers. No, I am tired of sexual harassment because I thought we as a nation were better than this. I taught sexual harassment avoidance classes in corporate America beginning 30 yers ago and I really thought we as a country had matured since then. I was wrong, and I HATE being wrong.

Sexual harassment is widely misunderstood and is far more prevalent than people believe. I thought I would share my knowledge of the topic and clear up some of the misconceptions about it.