I didn’t dismiss anyone in this conversation. I am allowed to dismiss someone I find to be outright vulgar or rude for no reason other than to be an internet tough-guy. Yeah, I disagree with folks who post pictures of dead babies or beheading.

Thanks MRA douche....

they blocked him, which might have put him on notice that he was scaring them

articles on legal proceedings in the latter should no be an Op Ed.

Comment count went from the 280's to the 270's in the past few minutes. I can see you’re still hard at work showing those mysoginistic MRAs who’s boss. You go girl! You click that “Dismiss” button like it’s the ignition switch to your Social Justice War machine!

a journalist should be reporting on the actual case itself, rather than writing long screeds based on their personal feelings on the matter.

Canada does not have freedom of speech... or 1st amendment protection like the good ol’ US of A has... a fact that I gleefully remind everyone on. (I’m Canadian)

My point was how different the laws and their interpretation are regarding fear in the two areas. You guys go one way and stand your ground states go another, 180 degrees different.

So many 1-post accounts.

Change the dynamic as to whether these women were “ reasonably objectively fearful” to whether he “reasonably objectively was intending trying to create fear,”

There are a number of you recounting your own tales of being stalked, raped, and assaulted. I don’t doubt that your stories are legitimate, and believe it or not, I am incredibly saddened by these types of stories. I’m the father of an eight-year-old daughter, and I shudder at the world in which she is growing up.

In the sense that you’re not being personally singled out or discriminated against? Sure...maybe it’s not the strictest definition of harassment, but I bet a good goddamn its against some sort of workplace professionalism standard.

ALL HAIL THE DISMISS BUTTON!

I do agree there - and to be clear that’s exactly the difference I was trying to illustrate.

it’s difficult to be “authoritarian” if you can’t win a court case because a defendant says that he wasn’t aware that what he did was a crime.

“I did this (because) he was making me feel unsafe/miserable.”

This is why it’s so important to assign consequences to this type of behavior.

all of it

So much easier to delete an argument you don’t like than to actually, you know, form a reasonable counter-argument of your own. Boy has your generation ever gotten lazy.

Do Americans really have a right to criticize the Canadian justice system which clearly works far better than theirs?