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Not sure "this always happens so get used to it / stop complaining / don't be surprised" does anything other the blame the person getting harassed. The argumen

• ordinaryradical 8y ago
  Because, as said elsewhere in this topic, the sexes are not coequals in sexual selection, not even close. And when someone zooms in on a peculiar dynamic like this one and says “AHA, men!” they completely miss this. This is built into the nature of sexual relationships across the genders and possibly even gender itself. What I’m talking about is descriptive, not oughts. No one ought to be harassed, but people will keep doing this because it is an outflowing of an emasculated culture. What I don’t like about your line of argument is how it infantilizes women. It’s clear just by the nature of how this medium has developed that it’s going to create unwanted or unrecriprocated sexual attention. It’s a fantasy relationship simulator. That doesn’t make harassment okay, either. But how do you police this? Are you really saying women need to be protected from the precise male gaze they are courting? How? Not only is this impractical, demonizing men or trying to frame this as a woman’s liberation issue just furthers the emasculation culture which leads to the creepy, inappropriate behavior you take issue with