Most people — none of them women — believe the myth that harassment occurs between a woman and someone she doesn’t know. Actor David Schwimmer debunks that myth in the best possible way, by creating different PSA’s that focus on six different forms of sexual harassment experienced daily.
“Everyone’s seen the guy jumping out of the bushes,” Schwimmer noted — but predatory men often take advantage of power structures in the workplace, pressuring women into uncomfortable, and even dangerous, positions. It might not be as obvious, Schwimmer said, but subtlety doesn’t matter.
It’s vital that men understand this “gray area,” as Schwimmer put it, still qualifies as sexual harassment. It’s just as unacceptable.
“I really hope that men see these films as well, so they can learn, ‘Oh, that’s not appropriate behavior,'” he said.