Yes, but the reason women are more likely to be subjected to what we in the West would call “sexual harassment” in places like Iran is not because they’re more covered up but because of the general state of gender relations in societies like that. I mean, women just recently got the right to drive in Saudi Arabia, as I understand it. They’re treated as second-class citizens in virtually every respect, so of course they’re going to be dehumanized in all kinds of ways, sexual harassment included. It has nothing to do with the fact that they’re wearing more clothing. Wearing less clothing doesn’t really help:
My point, more generally, was not that we need to adopt Shariah law or go back to Victorian morality, but rather, that we can’t have a schizophrenic society where, on the one hand, women are completely sexualized in every possible way, and on the other hand, men are told, in essence, to ignore those blatant sexual displays and repress themselves. That doesn’t work. If we’re going to be living in a more sexualized society, then let’s acknowledge that fact and understand that it comes with consequences for both genders. And if we need to pull back a bit to achieve a better balance, then let’s do that.
Nor is it fair to allow women to take advantage of men by using their sexuality freely to flirt, tempt and sleep their way to the top with impunity, if they so choose, while shaming, firing and disciplining men who take advantage of women in their own way in this same kind of environment. Either both these men and these women should be shamed/fired, etc., or else they should be all be left alone to do what they’re doing, with only those who break the law subject to further action.
