Sexual harassment is defined as unwelcomed sexual advances, requests for sexual favors, and other verbal or physical conduct of a sexual nature.
We, as moviegoers, laugh at sexual harassment without even noticing it. The sexual harassment is purely atmospheric. All popular movies somehow deals with ramifications of the sexual harassment that’s been turned into a punch line. The harassment here functions as part of the scenery, more or less unaddressed. Whether the harasser or the harassed is the butt of the joke is beside the point; these moments are unimportant, accepted, and almost instantly forgotten by the film and its characters.
A recent video by All India Bakchod has taken the internet by storm for all the right reasons.
I don’t think that there needs to be a scale for “how bad” an instance of sexual harassment is. There are different instances in the movie that shows the “badness” of a male character; sometimes showing how “strong” the female character is, and sometimes its nothing but a meaningless joke. But the stigma has always been there because no one had the imagination to think of how to achieve these things in a way that didn’t involve a woman being somehow violated. In none of the instances below does the sexual harassment itself directly affect the plot of the movie.
