Although a popular success, Disclosure was derided by feminists who considered its premise—sexual harassment of a man by a woman—silly at best, dangerous at worst. After all, everyone knows sexual harassment is something a man does to a woman. That assumption is reflected in the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission’s guidelines on sexual harassment, where the harasser is always a “he” and the victim a “she.” You have to refer to a footnote to verify that the law, in theory, protects men as well as women.
Most of the published research on sexual harassment agrees: women are victims; men are harassers. In surveys, some 40 per cent of women report being harassed at work, compared to a negligible proportion of men. When men do report harassment, their harassers are often other men.
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