It only takes one abusive man to make every woman in an office miserable. If he also happens to be the boss, then what is anyone, man or woman, to do to stop him?

It's just as difficult for a man to stand up and oppose his boss as it is for a woman. More so, in fact, if he only heard about the harassment but never witnessed it. When people's jobs are on the line, it's not hard to see why we have a culture of silence.

Even small stuff like calling BS on the sort of comments that happen when only guys are around (we've all heard them).

The implicit consent of everyone around these kinds of people is what lets this stuff continue (along with everything else of course).

I don't really think so. I think there are better ways to handle this.

Are you saying that from most women having been harassed it follows that most men have been harassing women?

This one.

Most men are great people. But, the amount of damage that the minority can cause is what astounded me.

Also noticed that some perfectly normal people, have a couple of very weird ideas about romance, sex and women that cause them to act in a way that to a 3rd person and the woman herself to rightly consider it harassment.

Personally, I feel the rules around acceptable behavior when drunk/high need to be taught in school and a few solid lines need to drawn to let in most cases men and in a few cases women, know what constitutes consent.

Because if most men would do this (and most implies: a majority of them), then even the current deluge of reports would be nothing compared to what you’d expect it to be.

I’ve have asked female colleagues about this and while they did complain about sexism, it was always isolated cases. Not most men.

Of all the respondents, 20% report sexual harassment of some sort. That’s a very high number. There is no reason to doubt its veracity.

But if 50%+ of all men were like that, you’d expect this number to be way higher.

Google is letting me down on that.