Watch: How to ask a girls for a date; understand what's okay, what's harassment

  • 6 years ago
When i walked into office today, I saw our team huddled up having an intense conversation. As I approached them, a colleague of mine told me that I'd missed out on a very interesting conversation. It went on for another hour because that's how complex certain things can be all day today, we've been trying to understand what's okay and what's not. This conversation becomes even more complex as we enter the office or tight social settings like colleges. The office is expected to have a code of conduct and ethics. We walk in hoping the office will be a space free of harassment, because that's what being professional means. However that's far from it as people in positions of authority often believe that the said authority gives them the right to exploit employees, as they prey upon people in inferior positions or those who desperately need that job. Then we come to colleges where definite cliques exist. For those of you not aware, the debating society and circle of a prominent university has been taken up by a storm as allegations of sexual harassment flood our social media leaving us completely shocked. It's the same people you once perhaps shared a room with at a tournament, or went out for a drink with because who would've thought. And then comes the student-professor relationship. In school, it's ingrained in our heads to respect our teachers but that changes when you go to college with the rite of passage, that relationship can often become a more chilled out, friendly one where you find yourself talking freely to your professors, discussing things you could never think of discussing with a person who's supposed to be your guru that relationship too can often get twisted.

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