By TOM PURCELL

Boy, have sensitivities changed since I was a kid in the ‘70s -- especially where sexual harassment is concerned.
I speak of an incident that occurred three years ago at an elementary school in Oregon. According to abcnews.go.com, two 13-year-old boys were arrested for “slapping girls on the rear end.”
Both spent five days in a juvenile detention joint. Both were charged with several counts of felony sex abuse.
If convicted, both would have had to be registered lifelong as “sex offenders” -- and spend up to 10 years in the clink.
That surely wasn’t the reaction when I was a victim of sexual harassment in my sixth-grade year.
A girl in my class -- I’ll call her Susie Smitten -- had the hots for me. Who could blame her? I was one of the better “keep-away” players. And even though I had big ears and a bad haircut, I wasn’t a bad catch by sixth-grade standards.
One day during recess, I noticed that Susie was looking at me with misty eyes.

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