Jordan Harbinger

It was commissioned by Stop Street Harassment.

it was carried out by UC San Diego, and then it was summarized by the National Sexual Violence Resource Center, this did find that nationwide, 81% of women, and by the way, 43% of men, reported experiencing some form of sexual harassment and or assault in their lifetime.

But it might be good to note that the original survey defined sexual harassment and or assault broadly, and that included verbal harassment,

unwanted touching slash groping, flashing, stalking slash following, cyber harassment, and actual sexual assault.

Got it.

Which many people, including I imagine our friend here, would say, yeah, that's all harassment slash abuse.

Anything from being minorly catcalled on the street to, you know, literal physical abuse.

I just want to be clear about how the study defined harassment and assault.

I don't know how much that number would change if you, for example, left out verbal harassment, which might include, say, being unwontedly hit on at a party or something like that, or being sent a suggestive message on social media or something along those lines.

I'm speculating a little bit, but I think you know what I'm getting at.

Yeah, and that's good to call out because I would say that if it's getting an unsolicited flirty message on Instagram or whatever, I'm surprised it's not 100% of women having had that at some point in their life.

So she continues, As I explore this statistic in my own experience, almost all of the women I know fall into that 81%.

Yet not a single man I have encountered knows a man at fault.

I question which is more likely.

Is it just a few men whom apparently no one knows on a rampage making contact with all these women?

Or are you all complacent?

Complacent?

Complacent.

I don't know if she meant complicit or complacent.

It sounds like I think she probably must have meant complicit, no?