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> Is your second sentence actually a question? Basically, yes. It was a rhetorical question in the sense that the reader now gets to ask that question as I ha
by graycat 11y ago
> Is your second sentence actually a question?
Basically, yes. It was a rhetorical question in the sense that the reader now gets to ask that question as I had to to myself at the time. And, of course, the answer is, "Yes, she was she was asking me to have sexual intercourse with her". So, one could say that I, in this case a man, in a professional, office setting, actually also an academic one, was being asked for sexual intercourse so was being 'sexually harassed'. So, as in the OP, I should have "nightmares"? Well, I didn't. So, I was sexually harassed in a professional, office, academic, employment setting and had no nightmares. So, by implication, we have: "Women, note that, in public, office, professional, academic, employment settings, men get 'sexually harassed', too".
> Your third sentence doesn't make sense. Who said anything about nightmares? And why is "nightmares" in quotation marks? Is it supposed to be a euphemism for something else?
The third sentence makes perfect sense: I was being sexually harassed, by a woman, but didn't have "nightmares". And the word 'nightmares' was in full, double quotes because it was being quoted from the OP, which was about having nightmares from sexual harassment.
> Try tightening it up
It sounds like the jump from my second to my third sentence was already to large, that is, my writing was already too 'tight'.