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From: laura@hoptoad.uucp (Laura Creighton)
Newsgroups: net.women,net.singles
Subject: Re: Re: Beach harassment
Message-ID: <502@hoptoad.uucp>
Date: Sat, 8-Feb-86 22:02:23 EST
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Posted: Sat Feb  8 22:02:23 1986
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>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		
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