Toto@lemmy.world to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · 9 months agoFrom what I know about male boomers and their political views of women the more i feel the 60s were less free love and more uncomfortable kinda rape-y encountersmessage-squaremessage-square107fedilinkarrow-up1401arrow-down183
arrow-up1318arrow-down1message-squareFrom what I know about male boomers and their political views of women the more i feel the 60s were less free love and more uncomfortable kinda rape-y encountersToto@lemmy.world to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · 9 months agomessage-square107fedilink
minus-squarefubo@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up9·9 months agoYup. Just to emphasize the point – the term “sexual harassment” didn’t exist in the 1960s as a legal term. It only really came about in the mid-1970s as a result of feminist lawyers applying ideas from civil-rights law to gender and the workplace. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexual_harassment#Etymology_and_history
Yup. Just to emphasize the point – the term “sexual harassment” didn’t exist in the 1960s as a legal term. It only really came about in the mid-1970s as a result of feminist lawyers applying ideas from civil-rights law to gender and the workplace.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexual_harassment#Etymology_and_history