Why is it you are surprised? Time to name and shame them, ladies.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-19861146

Thank you Sandi Toksvig and Liz Kershaw and all the others who are speaking out now.
If David Cameron thinks this only applies to the BBC he is greatly mistaken. Open your eyes, David.
This sort of thing has been going on for years and years in every environment where women work alongside men. Jimmy Savile was just one of thousands of men who have thought they could grope women and get away with it.

Many women know this has and is still going on in other industries. Women have been the subject of such behaviour during their working lives for centuries and have not been able to do anything about it. If they complained it was they who were made to feel they were at fault. They didn't have a sense of hunour! Or were frigid! Or were lesbians! So what if they were - that was their business and had nothing to do with their abuser. A bit of slap and tickle to laugh about? I don't think so!

It's all a big joke with some men and it is time that the women who have been treated this way are encouraged to speak out, and name names, and are listened to. Women working in other industries and services, as well as the public work areas such as the Civil Service, NHS and armed services, have also been subjected to such behaviour. It is time some men were faced with their attitude towards women.

I am sure some women have even gone along with it as well - just to get along with their male colleagues. Feeling they had no alternative. They saw that when they complained it was seen as a big joke and it was made clear they were making a fuss over nothing. No doubt they will now be set up to be blamed for encouraging men to behave like this. Shame on the men.

This attitude has so often been - well you wanted equality and this is what equality is all about. It is still a man's world in the United Kingdom, and the time has come for women to speak up especially with Christmas on its way and the Christmas party offering some men the opportunity to take advantage over a few office drinks. Were you invited to kiss her under the mistletoe or did you trick a her into it? Yes, it includes that behaviour as well when it is not welcome.
In my own working life I have been the subject of uninvited male sexual behaviour and have been forced to laugh it off. It's embarrassing to be the victim and embarrassing to feel you have to complain about what is happening.
All good fun, is it? I don't think so and those men know it.
Time to name and shame them, ladies.