Yesterday, the New York Post ran a piece by gossip columnist Cindy Adams under the headline “Sexual harassment: deal with it.” Today, Women's Media Center president Jehmu Greene fired back in a statement given to the Huffington Post:

The author is blurring the lines between sexual harassment and sexual assault, when in fact one often leads to the other. There is no “right way” to handle sexual harassment or assault, but discouraging women from reporting those crimes is clearly archaic and deflects responsibility from the perpetrators. The under-reporting of sexual harassment and assault promotes an atmosphere of fear rather than of open dialogue about the issues. We should be focusing on the empowerment of women through programs like HollabackNYC which encourages women to identify their assailants, rather than regressing to a “just deal with it” attitude that disrespects and undermines the strides we have made in recent decades.