Basson Sexual Harassment In The Workplace Case Study

Basson, in Sexual Harassment in the Workplace: An Overview of Developments, makes the claim that ‘unwelcome conduct of a sexual nature’ is not necessarily sexual harassment until a certain level or degree of unacceptability is attained (Basson, 2007: 426). This according to the author is the first step towards a threshold in which one should ask the question as to whether the conducts was welcomed or unwelcomed (Basson, 2007: 427). As far as the types of conduct that may be constituted as sexual harassment is concerned, a distinction is usually made, “within the broad spectrum of the sexual nature of the conduct, between physical, verbal and non-verbal conduct” (Basson, 2007: 427). Sexual harassment can also be defined as sexual innuendo, comments

In almost all instances that I have been ‘out’, either to a party, club, braai or any other social event, women are wearing sexualising clothing. Sexualizing clothing, for the purpose of this essay, is defined as clothing that reveals or emphasizes a sexualized body part; and has characteristics associated with sexiness and/or sexually suggestive writing (Goodin et al., 2011: 1). This reminds me of my first night out. It was my twentieth birthday and my friends decided to give me my first nightclub experience. I must say I was very much experienced, because clubbing was something one only read about or watched on television. It was autumn and the weather had stared to get a little bit cold, so I decided to add another (thin) layer of clothing. When we got to the club it felt like we were Eskimos, mostly me because my friends were on the notion that ‘it gets hot in the club (with all the movement and talking) and that an additional layer was unnecessary’. What I found to be unfortunate, about the experience is how the different sexes dressed. Yes, it was ‘hot’ in the club, but a lot of young women went overboard with respects to the amount of material worn. In that regard, I argue that women’s attractiveness, according to the social standards of ‘the night life’, is determined by sexualised clothing and also on the number of sexual advances made towards them in a single night. Therefore, one