This is, as you say Janice, all too common - and has been happening for a few decades with increasing fever and frequency. Just recently I read about the experience of Thomas Oaster a Kansas University Professor who established the first International Men's Day in 1992 and in 3 subsequent years. Young female students of his, and some faculty members were furious at his desire to build an International Men's Day, which they viewed as an arrogant affront to the more urgent theme of women's liberation. In 1995 a case of sexual harassment was brought against Oaster by two of his students - the first student claiming he referred to her as "blondie" when she asked how she could improve her grades, and a second women who said she thought he was making sexual advances due to what she perceived as a "brief stroking motion" he made on her forearm.

The University penalized Oaster, restricted his movements on campus, and made his teaching ability so restricted that he had to resign. Many newspapers reported on him as a pervert who got his just deserts, and this publicity cast a shadow on his already planned next IMD conference which flopped when no one turned up. Thus he turned his back on the global movement he had successfully established. Oaster later proved his innocence and the university was forced to pay him I think it was 89 thousand dollars in compensation.

Fortunately IMD was revived again in 1999 by Jerome Teelucksingh of Trinidad and Tobago.