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by pc86 3801 days ago
You do not need a "clear rejection" to make something harassment. If I've never spoken to someone but I spend ten minutes a day staring at her chest, that's harassment.

If I ask someone out, they say yes, and keep rescheduling 100 times, me continuing to ask them out and not take the (subtle, non-obvious) hint is still harassment.

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Looking at someone is harassment now? I must have harassed hundreds of women then, What about thinking about them?
If you are leering at someone day in and day out that is harassment. Is that really a difficult point to understand?

I'm not talking about a glance because a woman is wearing a new shirt. That's not harassment, nobody ever said it was, and asserting otherwise is a straw man. But ogling the hot girl every day is.

Only if it's someone you aren't interested in, if a hot guy you liked made eye contact a few times and smiled it would make your day. Am I right?
Well I'm a married heterosexual man, so the universe of "hot guys I like" is pretty small.

And I don't know why you insist on continuing to argue against points I'm not making. I'm saying continued unwanted advances = harassment, regardless of the existence or lack of "clear rejection." If you flirt with someone at work (what exactly are you being paid to do?) and they reciprocate, it's not unwanted. If you do it once and they don't reciprocate, and you stop, it's not continued.

So it's not the act that's harassment, it's the relative level of attractiveness of the person committing the act. Interesting.
You are either being willfully ignorant or a troll (or both). Nowhere did I even intimate that attractiveness has anything to do with anything.

> I'm saying continued unwanted advances = harassment