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People might disagree on the line itself, but many of these cases that are publicized are... if you read the details of the interactions they are clearly way over many reasonable people's lines.

We might not need a hard line. An acknowledgement of those that went way over the line is proving to be a huge step forward for society. Hopefully we can be left _only_ with ambiguous cases when they occur.

It's not normal for someone known by everyone around them to be a harasser to be able to continue their acts.




>>It's not normal for someone known by everyone around them to be a harasser to be able to continue their acts.

I recommend reading "The missing stair"[0] for an account of how normal this actually is.

[0] http://pervocracy.blogspot.com/2012/06/missing-stair.html


Sorry, I meant to say that it shouldn't be normal. Unfortunately society still has a lot of progress to make.




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