An employer is responsible for a supervisor's harassment, but when the harasser is a co-worker, the employer is liable only if the victim proves that the employer was negligent in failing to stop the harassment.
Everyone is against sexual harassment, everyone is against the rapist or the harasser.
Ninety per cent of the women said their harasser had been a man, with men constituting 79% of harassers overall.
More than a year ago, Harper authored an auto-blocker for Twitter that lets users automatically, pre-emptively block users likely to be associated with harassment groups – people who follow more than one high-profile harasser, or who frequently use hashtags associated with abuse movements.
The nonprofit organisation Stop Street Harassment has a host of suggestions for responding to street harassers, including the recommendation to name the behaviour and describe the harasser ("Man in the yellow shirt, stop touching me"), which places the usual shame and embarrassment felt by the victim on the perpetrator instead and gives bystanders an open opportunity to step in.
A third case raises the question of whether a man can sexually harass a man (even if, as in the case before the court, neither harasser nor victim is gay).The court could use these cases to clarify the law and limit its scope or to expand it dramatically.
If a case could involve serious misconduct, it might be appropriate to suspend the alleged bully or harasser pending an investigation.
But with Todd's harasser, the malice is unquestionable.
The systematic way the harasser allegedly followed Todd to new schools, repeatedly posting the images and threatening to do it again, makes it textbook harassment regardless of the medium.
It is a cultural myth — one particular to the Internet — that the methods of a harasser are fundamentally "legal," and that the state is helpless to intervene in all cases like this.
While the police have yet to confirm the identity of Todd's harasser, the "hacktivist" group Anonymous has identified an adult man who lived nearby as the culprit.
