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Re:Calling a man bald counts as sexual harassment, UK judge ... by treesprite82 on Friday May 13, 2022 @02:28PM (#31370976)
> a stupid bald c** and threatened to deck me

The "harassment" part makes sense at least.

> and it related to the claimant’s sex

I'd have assumed "sexual" meant relating to sex (intercourse), rather than relating to sexes (male/female).

I think the relevant act would be: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2010/15/section/26

Re:Calling a man bald counts as sexual harassment, UK judge ... by true_religion on Friday May 13, 2022 @04:11PM (#31372057)
> I'd have assumed "sexual" meant relating to sex (intercourse), rather than relating to sexes (male/female)

No, sexual harassment is any form of it that references the sexes (male/female), otherwise garden variety misogyny (e.g. "women are bad at X", "X is bad at Y, because she's a woman") wouldn't be considered sexual harassment.

Re:Calling a man bald counts as sexual harassment, UK judge ... by veltas on Friday May 13, 2022 @06:08PM (#31373043)
But "women are bad at X" is not 'sexual harassment'.

Misogyny is not identical to sexual harassment, they are two different things with some overlap.

EDIT: would downvoters (or downvoter + socks) like to explain their disagreement? I'm happy to be corrected.

Re:Calling a man bald counts as sexual harassment, UK judge ... by uvnq on Saturday May 14, 2022 @02:20PM (#31380774)
Not sure why you're getting downvoted. The statement has nothing to do with anything sexual. Unless "sexual harassment" has lately been redefined to mean "harassment based on sex"
Re:Calling a man bald counts as sexual harassment, UK judge ... by colejohnson66 on Friday May 13, 2022 @08:04PM (#31373816)
Saying "women are bad at X" isn't necessarily sexual harassment; It's just misogyny. But if you said it to a woman, it would be sexual harassment.
Re:Calling a man bald counts as sexual harassment, UK judge ... by veltas on Saturday May 14, 2022 @05:02AM (#31376210)
There's a difference between sexual behaviour and gendered insults, that's my point. Or no?