While indeed the cultural practices of sexual harassment in architectural fields are deemed illegal and apt, there is an existing shift in sexual harassment which is unspoken since the key aspects of architecture. It cannot be exactly termed as individualistic but rather institutionalized sexual inequities in the metrics of the profession. The recent #MeTooCampaign provided a shift in production of architecture which tried to grow awareness and discourses of harassment and oppression within the confines of the profession and do away with the idea that one was alone and any attempt to come out would get them discriminated (lecture 6, 19). This paper is a critiquing opinion on the whole topic of feminism and sexuality in architecture.
Whereas it could be easy to lay blame on the institutionalized subjectivity and repression, there is a need to incorporate integrity in the process. Some people have a mindset which is only fixed at career advancement irrespective of whether they will be harassed or not (Rosalyn, 1996). There is a growing need for women empowerment by those who have risen up the ranks in architectural fields so that the need to use sexuality looks and charm to develop one’s career is gotten over with. This brings the need to incorporate feminism, queerness, and sexuality in mainstreaming processes that seek to institutionalized gender empowerment as well as an introduction of a gender perspective in architectural curriculum.
Architectural values need to be reevaluated in the re-education of ourselves to make architectural practices welcoming to every gender and oppose the institutionalized sexuality (Borden et al, 2007). On the other hand, the identity politics between various individual groups that seek political correctness-turned-witch-hunt needs to be reevaluated since they have since turned into judge, jury, and executioner and therefore the truth on sexuality has not been heard and decided upon so as to invert the current state in architecture. Since the technology in media forms was successful in fighting the traditional sexuality issues, it should be incorporated as an intermediary between feminism and architecture.