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In reply to the discussion: Posting T&A threads helps to create a hostile environment for women here. [View all]KitSileya
(4,035 posts)Asking a woman out on a date can be harassment - if, for example, it happens at 4 a.m. in an elevator after the woman has said several times in public that she does not want to date. And a guy looking at a pretty girl can most certainly be sexual harassment, if it isn't so much glancing as leering, or if, for example, it is accompanied by a cheerful "Are you dirty?" Sound innocuous? Not when it is immediately followed by a "Because if you're dirty, I can start groping you at once, but if you're a prude, I'll sweet talk you into it!" At a bus stop at 11 p.m. on a Saturday night. That isn't sexual harassment?
However, seeing how you have deliberately refused to even think of how it feels for women that t&a pictures are posted right in the middle of a political discussion board, I don't expect you to feel inclined to listen to women's perspectives of those 'innocent' actions you describe - which is really the gist of it. You refuse to acknowledge that what women feel and say have any merit, because your pleasures are more important. How very progressive of you.