The guy said in group therapy for the second or third time that he’s receiving unwanted sexual advances and the guy won’t stop. I’m wondering why the group therapy therapist didn’t report it. So I told my case manager about it, and she’s going to get with the group therapy therapist, and get the name of the client who’s being harassed. I also reported it to the vice clinic director who handles sexual harassment complaints for the clinic.
I went through the same thing with unwanted grabbing and hugging me, even though I told him not to touch me, so I know the clinic’s procedure.
My conscious is clear now anyway.
I think the therapist is gender biased because the person being harassed is a guy and not a woman. I’m really not happy with this therapist.
Definite NO. Anyone, regardless of gender, shouldn’t have to put up with any kind of harassment.
It’s true that a lot of people think men being harassed is not as bad as a woman being harassed, but that really needs to change. The whole idea that men can’t show emotions or can’t be victims of harassment or abuse is absurd.
Thanks @Blossom. I don’t know if the guy complaining in group is being harassed by the same guy who was grabbing me. I know he was bothering one other guy who didn’t report it. The guy complaining looks a lot like me and has the same body build. He’s younger than me though.
I guess being a guy maybe you are supposed to beat the crap out of him or something. It’s just the three of us don’t know how to fight. We are pretty passive.
When I went through my crap as a teen people told me how lucky I was because it was an older woman who assaulted me. I didn’t talk about it for a long time because the few people I mentioned it to always said something like “I wish I could be assaulted like that.” It was almost half of my life ago, and it still has implications as to how I form relationships and has caused a lot of trust issues with people but I’m not nearly as jaded as I was when I was younger. It was more than just being taken advantage of when I was incredibly drunk as a minor, it was a couple of years of being in an abusive relationship with this person who had more life experience and was in a position of power over me.
I have to stop myself from cracking skulls every time I hear a grown dude wish that they were as lucky as the teens who “get to sleep with their hot teachers” whenever it makes the news, because that has real consequences that the young men will have to deal with for a long time. I’m anecdotal evidence of this, except it wasn’t a teacher for me.
Sexual harassment is common in psyche wards. People are so crazy. I had some crazy chicks grab me or pester me before. And then I was told by a staff member it happened because I am ‘gorgeous’
I was sexually harassed at my last work place. I am only 30 and a 75 year old woman kept flirting with me. She would pinch my butt as she walked by. I told my boss yet she kept doing it.
