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...Honnet says she feels that at Harvard it is especially hard for students to admit uncertainty. "Harvard students are human. They don't want to appear uncertain or naive," she says...
...Working Group is trying to present the issue [of sexual harassment] without men feeling victimized and women embattled. We are teaching men to be more sensitive and women more assertive," says Honnet. "But no one likes to be told that they don't know what they're doing, that they don't know how to date...
...women learn how to say no and men learn how to understand that no means no, then people could be a lot happier and there would be a lot less pain and anguish," says Honnet...
...action that puts a person in a vulnerable position is an abuse of power, but Honnet makes a clear distinction between peer harassment and inappropriate behavior on the part of graduate students. The latter, she says, often "don't realize how powerful they are in the eyes of the student...
While most experts agree that harassment can be directed at both men and women, all of the complaints received in the past few years by the sexual harassment hearing officer have been made by women. "Maybe it's because we don't have enough women faculty," says Honnet. "Once we have more numbers, men, too, will have equal opportunity for harassment." Male faculty members far outnumber female faculty members with only about 25 tenured women versus about 350 tenured men in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences...