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No, I'm fine with "inappropriate comments", sexual and harassing in nature, falling under the designation of sexual harassment. But if you are advocating for m
by woodman 11y ago
No, I'm fine with "inappropriate comments", sexual and harassing in nature, falling under the designation of sexual harassment. But if you are advocating for making "inappropriate comments" illegal, then I'm going to have to disagree.
Imagine that a man says to a woman "No pressure, but if you're up for it, I'd like to put my popsicle in your purse." That is certainly sexual harassment, and in a workplace a firing would be a likely and not unreasonable resolution. Calling for armed agents of the state to drag the man off to jail (or use the threat of violence to compel anything) is an overreaction.
That is why an advocacy for making sexual harassment a criminal offense works against the proponent's interests. Sexual harassment would be redefined much more narrowly, because you can't lock people up just because they're dirty loudmouths.