If you don't mind being viewed as a threat, that's your bag. Personally, I find it insulting. If you choose to view every man as a potential rapist, you should also view him as a potential murder, white collar criminal, thief, con artist, terrorist, serial killer, and arsonist because the statistics support that as…

Oh, wait, that's the rhetoric...I forgot. Not every man is a rapist. Every man is a POTENTIAL rapist. Right. Sorry. Forgot a word. My bad. And that certainly has been said, to me, in a quaint little pizza shop on 6th.

Okay. No one has said that.

Yeah, the reason she was actually afraid was because she thought he'd ask her about differential math. The fear of going to the bathroom by herself was actually the fear of being cornered by raccoons. It's those tiny hands, you see. Terrifying.

Ah, so reward cowardice, hold her hand, take all personal accountability out of it, and let someone else do the heavy lifting. Sounds like how one might treat a child, not an empowered adult. I already have two children, and I would be ashamed of this behavior in them. It's strange how you think it's heroic to, you…

Right, because drunk people are completely logical all the time. And also, gay or not gay is binary.

You really don't understand how the psychology of rejection works, do you? Look it up, it's interesting.

You are misanthrope and a misandrist? There's a venn diagram in that, I'm sure. Regardless, it's not hate, truly, but a general disgust. As for where it comes from...look around. It's in how people treat each other, it's in the conflict of ideology. It is, in essence, people being people.

My opinions on the matter are not about me? Odd. See, here's the trick: no matter what I say, this is all in the past and my view on the situation changes absolutely nothing. It is, by and large, irrelevant. I am not affected by the situation, and I have no way to effect it. What I can do is state my opinion on…

Nice to meet you, I'm a misanthrope.

Ah, obviously you didn't see the part about my life experiences. Find that in this post, come back to me, and we'll try this again. To give you the reader's digest version: you are making some gross judgements about why I say the things I do.

Dang. Just...dang.

Okay.

Here's the thing: I believe she should have reported it to HR. If she really felt so uncomfortable, so afraid, she should have, but apparently she didn't. This is a problem. I would ask if you understood why, but I'm going to doubt it because you see only the defense of the poor helpless woman, and not the overall…

Life must be terrible when you live in fear of everything, I would think. However, I'm so glad that we've come to the understanding about this. It warms my heart.

The grown up PP is going to be in Battle of the Atom. She appears in #1, and she looks awesome. She's all grow'd up now!

Mmhmm. You have an odd notion of what responsibility is. Tell me, where did she say that she told him she felt unsafe? Oh, wait...as far as we know she didn't. Is the dude an idiot. Most probably. Would he have done it if it wasn't drunk? Maybe. Could they both have handled it better? Yup.

He did nothing except be there. She did nothing except feel uncomfortable. That's the extent of her anecdote. We don't know what, exactly, was said on either end. In the end, nothing happened.

Like I said, you do what you need to, but do not expect me to sympathize with you. Do not expect me to jump aboard the victim train because of something that has happened. I was the victim of rape, repeatedly in fact, as a child. Because of something I was born with (pretty severe internal tibial torsion) I had…

And I'm not going to be responsible for those other men. I am not a nice guy. I am not a bad guy. I'm just a guy. If I let my past experiences with women dictate how I treated all women, they'd all be ground under my heel, neglected, assaulted, manipulated, and abused.