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Originally Posted by undercoverbrother
So if I am on a job, as a plumber and I see a hot electrician, I am ok, to make sexual comments to her?
This seems wrong to me.
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You are not "okay" at all to make sexual comments to her. You are being an a$$hole. However, it may or may not be "sexual harassment", depending on whether it ties in with her employment. This is a contextual issue.
If you are, for example, a plumber that frequently does business with the company that employs her as an electrician, creating a similar context to the one I described above (say, for example, one might think "I should just smile, I don't want to cause us to lose a job opportunity down the road"), that would be workplace sexual harassment.
If you are a bike courier riding by a job site and see a hot electrician, and whistle and yell "nice tits" at her, you are being an a-hole. However, that is not "sexual harassment" any more than it is "attempted murder". It's still unacceptable behaviour but it's a misuse of the term "sexual harassment".