Ellison V. Brady Case

According to Bennett-Alexander & Hartman (2015) in order to determine the severity of the sexual harassment, the perspective must be obtained from the reasonable person standard (usually a male or gender neutral) or reasonable victim standard, which is viewing from the victim’s perspective (Bennett-Alexander & Hartman, 2015). The reasonable victim standard was issued as a policy by EEOC in order to be fair and obtain the woman’s perspective or reasonable woman (Bennett-Alexander & Hartman, 2015). Both of the standards mentioned are not intended to favor one gender more than the other, but rather create a gender-conscious examination of sexual harassment (Bennett-Alexander & Hartman, 2015). Thus, it is the employer’s responsibility to make the

Brady case, the reasonable victim was appropriately used. As the case examined the case from the Ellison (Woman’s perspective) in this case the victim. While also considering the male’s perspective, the person standard. Thus, Ellison, was not being overly sensitive, such a situation was causing disturbance in her life, a hostile work environment, and she felt unsafe in her own workplace. Ellison have every right to feel the way she did, her coworker Grey was crossing the line and boundaries by not picking up on body language, continuing to be insistive, and stalking Ellison in a way. It seems that perhaps, Grey had developed an infatuation or obsession with Ellison and was too blind to pick up all the negative signs from Ellison of lack of interest. Grey continued being inappropriate by continuing to write Ellison letters expressing how he felt about her, further, suggesting the illusion of sex, which created a severe and pervasive condition to alter the workplace and thus created an abusive work environment (Bennett-Alexander & Hartman, 2015). And Ellison may have been guilty of misleading Grey, rather than, being honest and informing that she did not feel the same way about him. However, such confrontation could have been engulfed by Ellison’s feelings of fear and threatened by Grey and what he would do next. Would her life be in danger? Would she become another statistic? Everyone is entitled to feel they way they want to, no one’s feelings should ever be minimized as everyone is