Silly Times Demand Silly Questions

Angel said:

If a man blows a woman a kiss in a diner, is it sexual harassment in your fevered opinion?

If a man leers at a woman on a bus, is it sexual harassment in your fevered opinion?

If a man stares at a woman longingly in the workplace, is it sexual harassment in your fevered opinion?

If a man whistles at a woman passing on the street, is it sexual harassment in your fevered opinion?

If a man addresses a waitress as "sweetie," is it sexual harassment in your fevered opinion?

If a man looks a woman up and down while standing on a ticket line, is it sexual harassment in your fevered opinion?

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Angel said:

If a man blows a woman a kiss in a diner, is it sexual harassment in your fevered opinion?

If a man leers at a woman on a bus, is it sexual harassment in your fevered opinion?

If a man stares at a woman longingly in the workplace, is it sexual harassment in your fevered opinion?

If a man whistles at a woman passing on the street, is it sexual harassment in your fevered opinion?

If a man addresses a waitress as "sweetie," is it sexual harassment in your fevered opinion?

If a man looks a woman up and down while standing on a ticket line, is it sexual harassment in your fevered opinion?

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calamity said:

Only if you continue after being asked not to, in my fevered opinion.

And that includes ignoring non-verbal signals which indicate you should stop bugging her.

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holbritter said:

No, being a complete dick neanderthal is not sexual harassment, in my fevered opinion.

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KevinKohler said:

An HR department would say that any action or activity that is of a sexual nature that makes someone else uncomfortable is sexual harassment.
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If a man blows a woman a kiss in a diner, is it sexual harassment in your fevered opinion?

If a man leers at a woman on a bus, is it sexual harassment in your fevered opinion?

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If a man whistles at a woman passing on the street, is it sexual harassment in your fevered opinion?

If a man addresses a waitress as "sweetie," is it sexual harassment in your fevered opinion?

If a man looks a woman up and down while standing on a ticket line, is it sexual harassment in your fevered opinion?

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Silly Times Demand Silly Questions

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Angel said:

If a woman calls a man "a complete dick neanderthal," is it sexual harassment in your fevered opinion?

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Angel said:

What does your HR department have to do with these OP examples?

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holbritter said:

If you consider disgust and scorn sexual, I guess so, in my unfevered opinion.

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KevinKohler said:

Because your or my opinion doesn't matter.


Now, outside of work? Sexual harassment has to involve some type of actual harassment. None on your list applies, in my opinion.

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Angel said:

I'm afraid I'm not as ready as you to ignore my own moral intuitions in deference to the legal virtuosity of HR bureaucrats, but as you acknowledge, all but one of my examples are set outside the workplace and beyond the authority of HR departments.

But in an earlier post you make note of the "sexism" of the OP questions/examples, and so you appear to distinguish, rightly, between sexism and sexual harassment, and I wonder whether your faith in HR departments extends to their hewing to that distinction in their judgments?

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Angel said:

If a man blows a woman a kiss in a diner, is it sexual harassment in your fevered opinion?

If a man leers at a woman on a bus, is it sexual harassment in your fevered opinion?

If a man stares at a woman longingly in the workplace, is it sexual harassment in your fevered opinion?

If a man whistles at a woman passing on the street, is it sexual harassment in your fevered opinion?

If a man addresses a waitress as "sweetie," is it sexual harassment in your fevered opinion?

If a man looks a woman up and down while standing on a ticket line, is it sexual harassment in your fevered opinion?

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Angel said:

If a man blows a woman a kiss in a diner, is it sexual harassment in your fevered opinion?

If a man leers at a woman on a bus, is it sexual harassment in your fevered opinion?

If a man stares at a woman longingly in the workplace, is it sexual harassment in your fevered opinion?

If a man whistles at a woman passing on the street, is it sexual harassment in your fevered opinion?

If a man addresses a waitress as "sweetie," is it sexual harassment in your fevered opinion?

If a man looks a woman up and down while standing on a ticket line, is it sexual harassment in your fevered opinion?

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Angel said:

If a man blows a woman a kiss in a diner, is it sexual harassment in your fevered opinion?

If a man leers at a woman on a bus, is it sexual harassment in your fevered opinion?

If a man stares at a woman longingly in the workplace, is it sexual harassment in your fevered opinion?

If a man whistles at a woman passing on the street, is it sexual harassment in your fevered opinion?

If a man addresses a waitress as "sweetie," is it sexual harassment in your fevered opinion?

If a man looks a woman up and down while standing on a ticket line, is it sexual harassment in your fevered opinion?

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lurchadams said:

In any of the scenarios you described above the answer is "yes" if the woman you're hitting on expresses discomfort with what you're doing. If you continue the behavior after you're asked to stop then it's harassment.

How many threads like this where right-wing nuts claim they don't know how not to be a dick. So pathetic.

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Angel said:

If a man blows a woman a kiss in a diner, is it sexual harassment in your fevered opinion?

If a man leers at a woman on a bus, is it sexual harassment in your fevered opinion?

If a man stares at a woman longingly in the workplace, is it sexual harassment in your fevered opinion?

If a man whistles at a woman passing on the street, is it sexual harassment in your fevered opinion?

If a man addresses a waitress as "sweetie," is it sexual harassment in your fevered opinion?

If a man looks a woman up and down while standing on a ticket line, is it sexual harassment in your fevered opinion?

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holbritter said:

No, being a complete dick neanderthal is not sexual harassment, in my fevered opinion.

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Integrityrespec said:

Probably no more sexual harassment than a woman wearing, extremely low cut tops, short short and ultra tight skirts and passing too close to some poor guy with too much sway in her walk.

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KevinKohler said:

Women absolutely receive deferential treatment. Their accusations carry far more weight. Just look at the Bret Kavinaugh flop.

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lurchadams said:

In any of the scenarios you described above the answer is "yes" if the woman you're hitting on expresses discomfort with what you're doing. If you continue the behavior after you're asked to stop then it's harassment.
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HumblePi said:

no

no

no

no

no

and...no

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lurchadams said:

How many threads like this where right-wing nuts claim they don't know how not to be a dick. So pathetic.

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Fishking said:

For the most part, yeah. Don't be a douche that leers at women, whistles at random women, or any number of other things that shouldn't be that difficult to not do as a decent human being.

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SDET said:

Interesting. It's all driven by a woman's fickle fee-fees. Either actions are prohibited or permitted. We are supposed to be a nation of laws.

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