WrenchWring
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Everything I've looked up about sexual harassment in the United States says that it's a term limited to employment law. For example: https://www.eeoc.gov/laws/types/sexual_harassment.cfm
Note that the harassed person has to be an applicant or employee. So if Monica, Jamie, etc., are all independent contractors and not employees, how can they have been sexually harassed? If Vic is an independent contractor and not an employee, why does Funimation care if he may have sexually assaulted the twins at an anime convention? They're not employees, Vic isn't an employee, and the anime convention isn't Funimation property.
It is unlawful to harass a person (an applicant or employee) because of that person’s sex. Harassment can include “sexual harassment” or unwelcome sexual advances, requests for sexual favors, and other verbal or physical harassment of a sexual nature.
Harassment does not have to be of a sexual nature, however, and can include offensive remarks about a person’s sex. For example, it is illegal to harass a woman by making offensive comments about women in general.
Both victim and the harasser can be either a woman or a man, and the victim and harasser can be the same sex.
Although the law doesn’t prohibit simple teasing, offhand comments, or isolated incidents that are not very serious, harassment is illegal when it is so frequent or severe that it creates a hostile or offensive work environment or when it results in an adverse employment decision (such as the victim being fired or demoted).
The harasser can be the victim's supervisor, a supervisor in another area, a co-worker, or someone who is not an employee of the employer, such as a client or customer.
Note that the harassed person has to be an applicant or employee. So if Monica, Jamie, etc., are all independent contractors and not employees, how can they have been sexually harassed? If Vic is an independent contractor and not an employee, why does Funimation care if he may have sexually assaulted the twins at an anime convention? They're not employees, Vic isn't an employee, and the anime convention isn't Funimation property.