Whether it’s the college campus or the office, sexual harassment and sexual assault are often embedded in the culture, but according to Downingtown Mayor Josh Maxwell, it’s time that men speak up about sexist comments, boundaries, and equality.

“Listen because your reality is not the same as hers. Listen because her concerns are valid and not exaggerated or inflated. Listen because the reality is that she or someone she knows personally has at some point been abused, assaulted, or raped.

“And she knows that it’s always a danger of happening to her,” Maxwell said during a Chester County Fund for Women and Girls discussion last week at Victory Brewing Co., according to a Daily Local News report by Ginger Dunbar.

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The young West Chester University graduate was joined by other community leaders in urging fellow men to talk about the problem, teach others, and take action against it.

“You have to make efforts to make other people feel comfortable because you want to have that office, that environment, where people are perfectly comfortable and are excelling to give their best, both for themselves and their office,” Downingtown Police Chief Howard Holland said.

Read more about the Chester County Fund for Women and Girls event in the Daily Local News here.

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