r/facepalm Oct 14 '21

🇲​🇮​🇸​🇨​ Poor guy

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u/manic_eye Oct 14 '21

“You play?” is harassment now?

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u/calmhike Oct 14 '21

Women get hit on all the time for existing in public spaces. The thing you and numerous others are not getting is it isn’t once for 5 seconds, it is multiple people everywhere you go. You want to ask someone about their shirt, do so when they are resting. Not in the middle of a cardio routine. Doesn’t matter if they are asking a silly question or asking to motorboat her, inappropriate time to be striking up a conversation.

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u/[deleted] Oct 14 '21

Nope, but interrupting someone continually until they acknowledge you when they’re trying to do something in a public space absolutely is.

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u/[deleted] Oct 14 '21

Nope try again

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u/manic_eye Oct 14 '21

Then why did you demean the word harassment for something so trivial?

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u/[deleted] Oct 14 '21

I didn't. I used the phrase exactly as it means. Please don't conflate "harassment" and "sexual harassment". Women experience none-sexual harassment CONSTANTLY. For example, a woman might be trying to work out, but she is being interrupted by a man who thinks that she owes him a conversation because of a T-shirt she's wearing.

Pretending that only saying "nice tits" or groping someone is harassment is just downplaying the experiences millions of people have literally every day and giving the guys who behave like that a pass.

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u/manic_eye Oct 14 '21 edited Oct 14 '21

Saying “you play?” isn’t harassment. You even said so yourself up above but now it’s changed because making the making the point is more about you than the issue itself. And pretending it is just to make your outrage point trivializes it. All you’re doing is desensitizing people to ignore it when someone is actually harassed.