Perspective from the old lady:
This whole thing is a nasty can of worms which is subjective. The subjectivity is where the issues lies. Often there are no witnesses to the behaviors that are seen as threatening (which the current case law and the SOPs at employers attempts to address) and this makes things extremely messy because everything can be construed as hearsay.
As far as actual harassment I think it is far more ubiquitous than many people wish to acknowledge and far more insidious. Furthermore, it is never going to go completely away because they dynamics of one-way attraction are always going to exist, and the dynamics of power are always going to exist, and these things are going to exist in combination in many cases.
I myself have been victimized twice in ways that would be considered cut and dry legal slam dunks were they on film. But that's the problem. They weren't.
First was as an adolescent by the director of a summer camp when I was 12 or 13 (the director isolated me late one afternoon in the horse stable and got inappropriately close and tried to french kiss me - I pressed my lips together and pushed away from him - Yuck!!) I never said anything to anyone about it because I did not think anyone would believe my word against the old man, but I avoided him thereafter and never went back to that camp, obviously. He was elderly at that time and died a few years later. There were no lasting negative consequences but let's just say it was a rude awakening about men and how they are (at times inappropriately) motivated. Was I the only one that old man tried to molest? I have no idea, but this was also 35 or so years ago and I didn't think anybody would believe me. He's dead now so it doesn't really matter now anyway.
The second time was by my boss in a medical setting. He would touch me in a kino sort of way in my office, and say suggestive things. He had tenure and was a well respected man in his field. He was married to a clergy woman. He also owned the apartment building where I resided. One Sunday morning, with my car in the driveway, my telephone on the nightstand beside my bed as I was sleeping he unlocked my front door (There wasn't a chain until after this happened) and let himself into my residence, and quietly walked into my bedroom where I was in bed. Thankfully I was under the covers, but I was alone. He had some stupid excuse about needing to check the smoke alarm or something, but I asked him what the hell was he doing walking into my home when I my car was there, he didn't call ahead, and he didn't announce himself either as he entered. Creepy. That freaked me out...this is my BOSS and my landlord. I knew since there were not witnesses that he would deny things and so I solved the problem thusly: I called his wife and explained to her what had happened that morning, and that he was lucky he didn't get himself shot (my gun was across the room) and that my father was a lawyer and if I sued it would be ugly for everyone involved, regardless the outcome. She dealt with him in the home. He called me later furious that I had called his wife, and later he sought (unsuccessfully) to undermine my career through a bad reference, but he never ever touched me or spoke to me inappropriately again. The first several job interviews I had after that one I made a point to disclose the matter to prepare the prospective employers so they would understand why he would be the single bad reference given. Fortunately his attempts to impede my ability to work never affected my future, but they could have. He badmouthed me every opportunity for years afterwards as told to me by people in the office later. Oh well.
Now I know this is a manosphere space, and I fully respect and appreciate that, but at the same time I think based on my own experience and that of others I know of, it is far more common for an attractive woman to be subject to inappropriate (in my cases above GROSSLY inappropriate) behavior as she moves through her life. There is not always much that can be done about it due to the lack of objective evidence. In a case like the Catholic boy molestations for example, and in the case of Bill Cosby and in the case of Harvey Weinstein, it is the culmination of many instances pointing to the same individual that becomes persuasive, due to the hearsay aspect of any one of the instances individually.
This will never be fully overcome. So a wise woman should take care to mind the environment she finds herself in if she is ever alone with a man who presides over her in some way. That is how I am raising my own daughters. On the flip side of that a wise man should not allow himself to be alone in an environment where something can be construed or mis-construed either.
It will never be able to be completely objective in a legal sense. Even in the recent high profile cases it has been the number of incidents and the similarity of the complaints one to another that has been damming. No individual incident has the ability to stand on its own because of the hearsay component, but I think it much more widespread that y'all realize.
