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I'm sorry but this whole discussion has been beyond obnoxious as far as I'm concerned. It started with people taking one drunk jack ass and extrapolating that

I'm sorry but this whole discussion has been beyond obnoxious as far as I'm concerned. It started with people taking one drunk jack ass and extrapolating that to slander the whole male tech community and now we have someone taking one insensitive comment and extrapolating it to slander all of HN (the other comment she quotes just pointed out it would have been a better idea to go to the police) Does the author really believe anyone in their right mind would think it was ok for a man to stick his hand down a woman's pants uninvited?

xentronium 16y ago
Does the author really believe anyone in their right mind would think it was ok for a man to stick his hand down a woman's pants uninvited? That. Even more, she cites a comment which really explains everything: I'll probably get downvoted for asking, but I'm curious, would everyone be as upset over this had it been a drunken female guest inappropriately grabbing a guy's package? And if the male blogger had then written a similar blog about being sexually assaulted at a party, naming the female who grabbed him? I'm not endorsing this sort of behavior obviously, but the public shaming element here seems fairly twisted. If a sexual assault occurred she should go to the police about it and press charges. Not start an internet witch hunt. You feel ashamed? You're getting abused? Go to police and social services for god sake.
ugh 16y ago
One comment and at least 31 other people who upvoted the comment.
cowpewter 16y ago
There was at least one person on the thread for the original blog post that argued that the incident as described did not constitute sexual assault, and when the actual statutes demonstrating that it was were given to him, he said basically that while it may be sexual assault in the letter of the law, he did not think it was that a big a deal or that what was described should be illegal. He received plenty of downvotes, but plenty of upvotes too. I know that arguing that something should not be illegal is not strictly the same as arguing that it's not 'not okay', but it is close enough to make me uncomfortable.

xentronium 16y ago

Does the author really believe anyone in their right mind would think it was ok for a man to stick his hand down a woman's pants uninvited? That. Even more, she cites a comment which really explains everything: I'll probably get downvoted for asking, but I'm curious, would everyone be as upset over this had it been a drunken female guest inappropriately grabbing a guy's package? And if the male blogger had then written a similar blog about being sexually assaulted at a party, naming the female who grabbed him? I'm not endorsing this sort of behavior obviously, but the public shaming element here seems fairly twisted. If a sexual assault occurred she should go to the police about it and press charges. Not start an internet witch hunt. You feel ashamed? You're getting abused? Go to police and social services for god sake.

ugh 16y ago

One comment and at least 31 other people who upvoted the comment.

cowpewter 16y ago

There was at least one person on the thread for the original blog post that argued that the incident as described did not constitute sexual assault, and when the actual statutes demonstrating that it was were given to him, he said basically that while it may be sexual assault in the letter of the law, he did not think it was that a big a deal or that what was described should be illegal. He received plenty of downvotes, but plenty of upvotes too. I know that arguing that something should not be illegal is not strictly the same as arguing that it's not 'not okay', but it is close enough to make me uncomfortable.