5/19/2021 E-Library - Information At Your Fingertips: Printer Friendly It is established that petitioner suffered some form of injury, but the pieces of evidence he submitted are not sufficient to convince this Court that he has been rendered permanently and totally disabled. Thus, this Court is precluded from awarding disability benefits, not because of his non-compliance with the 3-day reportorial requirement, but because there is barely any evidence to support the claim for disability benefits. In a separate opinion in Garcia v. Drilon,[120] the existence of violence against men and the underreporting of such incidents was recognized. It was discussed that: Social and cultural expectations on masculinity and male dominance urge men to keep quiet about being a victim, adding to the unique experience of male victims of domestic abuse. This leads to latent depression among boys and men. In a sense, patriarchy while privileging men, also victimizes them. There is now more space to believe that portraying only women as victims will not always promote gender equality before the law. It sometimes aggravates the gap by conceding that women have always been dominated by men. In doing so, it renders empowered women invisible; or, in some cases, that men as human beings can also become victims. In this light, it may be said that violence in the context of intimate relationships should not be seen and encrusted as a gender issue, rather it is a power issue. Thus, when laws are not gender-neutral, male victims of domestic violence may also suffer from double victimization first by their abusers and second by the judicial system. Incidentally, focusing on women was the victims entrenches some level of heteronormativity. It is blind to the possibility that, whatever moral positions are taken by those who are dominant, in reality intimate relationships can also happen between men. [121] To restate, sexual harassment can happen to anyone and everyone. Our society has often depicted women as being the weaker sex, and the only victims of sexual harassment. It is high-time that this notion is corrected. To consider women as the weaker sex is discriminatory. To think that only women can be victims of sexual harassment is discriminatory against men who have suffered the same plight; men who have been victimized by sexual predators. III Both the Labor Arbiter122 and the National Labor Relations Commission123 found that petitioner was sexually harassed. Respondents also did not refute this. In view of the sexual harassment suffered by petitioner at the hands of CO Oleksiy, he is entitled to moral damages, exemplary damages, and attorney's fees. The provisions of the POEA Standard Employment Contract strikes a balance between the interests of the employer and the seafarer. It provides for "the process for recovery of compensation as a result of occupational hazards suffered by the seafarer."[124] https://elibrary.judiciary.gov.ph/thebookshelf/showdocsfriendly/1/66544 17/25