Warning: Long post. As Rahul and Reshma walked down the crowded road, Rahul caught a pick-pocket red-handed. He and a few onlookers beat him black and blue. A while later Reshma was grabbed from behind. She spun around slapped the culprit. Later Rahul said – “You shouldn’t have over-reacted, he wasn’t going to rape you.” This is my first attempt at a 55-er. That said, this post is not about the 55-er but the issue of sexual harassment (SH) that goes on in our daily lives. Someone stealing a material possession is considered a far more serious offense than someone trying to invade one’s personal space – be it emotionally or physically or anything else. People have a notion that anything that is not rape is not SH. If you are thinking that, then sorry to say, YOU ARE WRONG. Rape is the highest degree of SH and the most brutal form of invading/exploiting one’s personal space. There are other forms of SH in varying degrees. SH today is so common and is treated so “normally” that so