Saturday, March 5, 2011

Sexual Harassment in Washington DC

The culture and norms of all the states of America are almost similar, but as there are different states made so there is also a slight different in the people who are living in these different areas. The case of sexual harassment is totally offensive and disturbing in all part of areas in America and there is almost no difference in any area but still the nature of people is different because everyone comes from a different background and living.

In Washington state sexual harassment is usually found in work areas, in public places and in schools. The main focus is in school because the students who are sent over there are sent to learn and educate to have more knowledge, there are some teachers who act like a mother father figure and by acting like this they take advantage of students. There are many teachers who are young and they get attracted to their students and there are many students who are old and they don’t have any company so to fulfill their desperation they take advantage of their young students.

Teacher’s status in schools in superior and they give more and more homework to students and ask favors from student by giving them excellent marks, they even ask students to take tuitions and visit their home, and even call students to their own place and by reasons touch them in their private parts. There are many students who get to know about it but they get into fear of failing in the subject or being expelled.

In Public places sexual harassment in found a lot, for example in a shopping mall there are people who are dressed up like clowns and they come and hold kids and touch them but the victim never realizes the intention of the clown man.

In airport there are many custom people and police officers who intentionally stop the passengers for checking and then check them from top to bottom by touching them and sometimes they purposely hold the private parts and make the passenger feel uncomfortable and the passenger just can’t argue because in return the custom people will say that they are just doing their duty.

Whistling occurs a lot in Washington, there’s always a bunch of male genders and whenever they see any hot female gender hey start whistling at them and female gender feels embarrassed about it. Even there are some news reporters who go to the teams of football and soccer for interview and whenever they enter the locker room the whole bunch of team starts whistling and hooting at them and makes the reporter feels uncomfortable.

Drinking Alcohol is common in US, so people usually throw parties and call everyone at their places and keep plenty of alcohol and sometimes they use overdosed drugs in order to make some unconscious and then they take the advantage of that person who is drunk and who is not conscious and not in his or her senses and they just become the victim of sexual harassment on a high level, and when they come into their senses they don’t even realize that who did that with them , so they don’t even take any further actions on it.

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