When some women complain of sexual harassment, they are often hit with this reply: then just report it lah!
But it’s not that easy. According to one recent survey, victims of sexual harassment in workplaces in Singapore said 20% of perpetrators faced no consequences despite evidence of harassment.
In other cases, those who did not report their harassment said they wanted to forget about the incident or believed that what they experienced was not severe enough.
Some also felt there wasn’t enough evidence of the harassment.
But it now turns out that there’s another way to deal with harassment: smacking your harasser with a mop.
Woman in China Beat Up Her Boss With a Mop After He Kept on Sending Her Harassing Texts
A video of a woman beating up her boss with a mop has gone viral on social media with millions of views.
According to the New York Times, the incident appears to have taken place in northeastern China and involved a government worker and her boss.
The woman, surnamed Zhou, had complained of receiving harassing text messages from her boss, Wang, and filed a police report last week accusing him of harassment.
But the woman then took matters into her own hands, as can be seen in the viral video.
At the start of the 14-minute video, the woman pours a big bowl of water over the man before grabbing a mop and smacking his head with it repeatedly.
He tries to apologise, saying he was just joking, but the woman wasn’t having any of it.
After taking a brief break to use her phone, Zhou grabs the mop again and strikes the man’s head several times, as well as smashing all his things off the table.
In the video, Zhou accuses Wang of assault and claims that other women in the office have received similar unwelcome advances.
Few Lawsuits Brought Against Harassers
There’s a good reason why this video was viewed so many times, and not just because it’s entertaining to see someone get hit by a mop.
According to Dr Darius Longarino, a senior fellow at the Paul Tsai China Center at Yale Law School, few lawsuits are initiated against harassers, and of those that are, even fewer are successful.
Moreover, if there’s nothing more than witness testimony to go on, the court often rules that there is insufficient evidence to prove that the harassment occurred.
Consequently, many women don’t report their harassment for fear of not being believed or even facing retaliation.
This is why many women enjoyed the flip in power dynamics in the video; they were engaging in a vicarious punishment of sorts for their own harassers.
Maybe some harassers will now think twice before they make such unwelcome advances, unless they enjoy getting smacked in the head with a mop, that is.
Featured Image: YouTube (月下笛)
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