Women seem to be coming out of the woodwork claiming they were sexual harassed by a famous/influential person. While I don't discount all of these claims, I do think some are illegitimate. Garrison Kellor was fired and I think his termination was unjust. Granted we should never touch anyone without their permission and yet there are many circumstances that come up in life when it only seems normal and natural to reach out to comfort someone and most often we do so without much thought. I will almost guarantee that if the office hunk whose attention that woman would have love to garner had been the one to touch her back there would never have been a claim made.
Some of these claims are made hoping for a payoff (like the woman who recently made a sexual harassment claim then offered to settle for $15 million. Some claims are made just to get ones name in the paper or to get a little attention. Some are made from a misunderstanding and sometimes such claims are made because the complainant just wants to get back at someone for a wrong or perceived wrong.
I do think all complaints should be taken seriously but I also think that if one makes a complaint that is shown to be completely false, the complainant should receive the same punishment that they wished for the person they complained about. I'm not talking about incidences where facts show there might have been some inappropriate behavior but the evidence wasn't strong enough to support the claims but those times when a person makes up a claim or blows something small out of
proportion.
An example would be a woman is clocking in for work and she steps backwards not realizing their is a man behind her. He instinctly puts his hands on her shoulder so she doesn't knock him over.
Granted he touched her without permission and he intentionally did so. If it be found that he did so legitimately then neither should be punished. But if an employee is upset with their boss, then they should be punished for bringing a claim when no incident happened.
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