Social Experiment: Fail at Boobs

So as some of you have been following, I conducted a very small social experiment in regards to Sexual Harassment in the work place. R e p e a t; in the work place.

 

This all came from a Beavis and Butthead episode talking about Counter- SH cases.

These tend to be generally a little more towards women than men. (Source http://www.sexualharassmentsupport.org/SHworkplace.html)

In this episode,  a girl was sued because she was too alluring. Then it made me think, omfg. There are so many sexual harassment cases, but what about the root of some these cases? Now sometimes, this "root" might not be the case, but other times I just might be.

So, because I'm a girl, and it's embarrassing to me when another girl so easily whores herself for attention, I wanted to see what would happen if I wore your typical low cut top to work, to see what kind of reaction I would get, for a day. Now I'm also counting this towards super corporate office suit and tie jobs too.

 

Questions I asked myself:

- Why would a (generally) man feel like he had to approach a woman for something other than work purposes?

- Why would a (generally) man feel like he wanted to look at her chest or legs?

- Why would a woman accentuate her body features for work?

- How does form fitting and revealing clothing help your work situation, if you're supposedly a strong confident woman with skill?

- There are perfectly good professional womens work suits out there without a V-neck cut, as well as pants. Why not wear those?

 

My answers:

- Because he knows her enough to get past the barrier, inducing non-work related interaction

- Because he noticed it more that day than he did before, maybe she did something different

- Because she wants to feel "pretty" for work

- BECAUSE I'M CONFIDENT IN MYSELF AND I CAN SUPPORT MYSELF AND I'M A WOMAN IN AMERICA WITH RIGHTS DON'T JUDGE ME HEAR ME ROAR WOMANS RIGHTS (< -- angry answer because i wasn't offended or anything)

- Because they're ugly! Teehee

 

^ Now think about that. Am I incorrect? If I am, please correct me.

 

Now that we have our questions, lets begin. Sex is behind wanting to look good. You don't need that for work. Period.

Unless your job requires you deliberately promote yourself in that manner to attract more people under the influence who have little to no judgment, then it's just unnecessary.

 

Example: A woman sues a man because he kept leering at her every day at work, never said a word. She's a lawyer. Good at what she does. Her work outfit is a low v cut blazer thingy, and a form fitting suit skirt whachamacallit. She wears make up, rockin the red lipstick and appears to come off as high maintenance.

 

--- Now lets give her the benefit of the doubt and pretend red lipstick isn't supposed to subtlety mimic a womans lips engorging with blood while she's having sex k? she wears it because she likes stephen king---

 

The guy gets sued. End of story right? No. Because he can totally counter-sue her. Why? Because she came to work dressing a little too... not worky. A man will succumb to his animal instincts way before a woman would. Her animal instincts are to nurture and snuggle her boyfriend cuz she's happy she has a protector and wants to reproduce and then snuggle that too. Men want to spread their seeds. It's not my opinion. It's fact. It's in our DNA. SO-

 

Billy here can counter-sue Tiffany because he looked at her, BECAUSE she probably googled sexy womans professional suits and got it from there. Just like I did;

http://shop.nordstrom.com/s/t-by-alexander-wang-cutout-back-knit-blazer/3138016?origin=category&resultback=4104

 

Does she need to be sexy for work? Nope. Does she need to do anything but work for work? Nope. Does she need to go to work to look pretty for her co-workers? Nope. But she took the extra step and did it anyway, and now she's getting results. She got what she wanted. Attention from her target audience.

 

Now is the part where I go to test peoples' reactions to what I wear to work. This isn't 100% because it was only for one day, but I got my results, and they're good enough for someone with common sense.

 

Day 1 - Thursday Jan 10 :  I wore a typical black low cut top with a push-up bra with black flared jeans. Simple enough.

Results: Before I even walked into the building, I noticed two men in a passing car turn their heads and face me as I walked around the block to my building ala Natalie Portman in Closer at the end. 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dh5yAQXNsyo

Throughout the day, I tallied up 11 glances from males that didn't know I existed the day before, at my sternum. Sternum. Sternum. At my sternum. Es, tee, ee, ar, en, yoo, em. Sternum. Google it if you don't know what it is. Eleven. At my Sternum. Not my kitty cat bag, not my face, not my dreadlocks, not my octopus necklace because I tucked it under the cut, but my Sternum. I don't have a piercing there anymore thanks to Rotny, and I don't have a scar there from heart surgery. So really, nothing material drawing these glances other than deliberate naked flesh.

 

Day 2 - Friday Jan 11 (Today) : I wore a black form fit t-shirt with a logo and olive cargo pants i got from the army surplus store. Super baggy

Results : No one looked anywhere near my chest. When we paired up for a training activity, They didn't even look at my logo. I got a question about my dreadlocks, and talked with someone about Warcraft 3 in the morning before I flashed them my shirt, but uh... not one glance at my boobs. Not one.

 

End result: 11 - low cut top with boobs vs. 0 - black t shirt with un-padded bra

I wore my make up just as I would any other day. The only thing that changed was my top. And this was only for a day. Imagine if I went to work every day in revealing attire.

So uh, yea. Before you think you can get someone for sexual harassment, look at your self in the mirror and ask yourself a couple things.

 

End note --

I was sexually harassed by a co-worker at GameStop years ago. Not because I wore scantily clothing - it's GameStop. But because he asked me what my favorite mythical creature was. I said Centaurs, I love em. He followed that with a question; would you ride me if i was a centaur? I didn't yell at him, but i made it clear that i was upset and that his comment was unacceptable to me. then he said whoa, calm down. what, are you on your period or something?

 

in that case, it would've been legit. he was fired shortly after for something else.