Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP
Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84 exptools; site whuxl.UUCP
Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!houxm!whuxl!stu16
From: stu16@whuxl.UUCP (Pippin)
Newsgroups: net.women,net.singles
Subject: Re: Re: Re: Beach harassment
Message-ID: <977@whuxl.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 11-Feb-86 13:37:13 EST
Article-I.D.: whuxl.977
Posted: Tue Feb 11 13:37:13 1986
Date-Received: Wed, 12-Feb-86 20:41:15 EST
References: <8342@ucla-cs.ARPA> <2581@sdcrdcf.UUCP>
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Whippany
Lines: 40
Xref: watmath net.women:8890 net.singles:10213

> >In article <957@whuxl.UUCP> stu16@whuxl.UUCP (SMITH) writes:
> >
> >         Harrassment is in the eyes of the harassee. What I
> >may think of as harrassment by a sleazeball, I might take as
> >a compliment from a "civilized" co-worker. It really depends
> >on WHO is doing the harassing.
> 
> Gosh, you have just made things hard as hell for all the men out there.  Do
> you have rules that you post in advnace  so that any given man can know
> in advance whether you consider them a sleazeball?  It sounds to me as if
> you have set up a perfect no-win situation here.  Assuming the truth of
> the statement ``civilized men don't want to harrass you'', then all the
> civilized men will logically stay away from you (after all, you might
> think they are sleazeballs, and then they would harrass you) and thus
> you will be left with *only* those people who don't care whether they
> harrass you or not.  Everybody is unhappy.
> 
> I think that an objective standard for harrassment is called for.  Good
> luck getting one -- as far as I can see, some people offend real easy.
> I suspect they will consider me insensitive.
> 
> -- 
> Laura Creighton		
> ihnp4!hoptoad!laura 
> hoptoad!laura@lll-crg.arpa




        Methinks you have completely missed the point.
    
        My interpretation: A person you absolutely can't
stand makes a suggestive remark - that's harrassment

        If a person you get along with quite well makes the
same remark - that's humorous. (Attitude also depends on the
harassee - how she takes the remark).
-- 
                      Pippin Stuart
                      whuxl!stu16