I don't have an especially grand vision of myself. I'm completely ordinary is almost every way. I am not a hero. I am just a person with a conscience.

Not in a harassment case it isn't. The only thing under consideration is whether the conduct was unwelcome. The motivation of the perpetrator is wholly irrelevant.

Seduction? Jesus, you sound like those people who told me my boss telling me he was picturing me in the shower was just an "awkward communicator". The only think less-subtle would have been a dick-pick. Would you excuse that too?

I didn't know this was an option!!!!

The reason why we're few and far between is because everyone else sits on their hands and does nothing while we take the risk and suffer the consequences. You do see the irony in you complaining about this, after having just put it in black and white that you will not help women who suffer the consequences of…

You can speak up when you hear it. You can tell them to stop. You can tell them it's not acceptable. You can talk to their manager if its a work situation. You can be a voice against it. If there are enough voices to speak against it, eventually they will drown out (or shame into deep hiding) those who believe…

I was going to be really impressed that a business founded on cracking electronic passwords (so, cryptography) was founded in Arkansas but that's not really what this is, its just phishing. There is no hacking — or even cracking — involved here.

I don't know who any of these people are. I feel kind of bad about myself now.

Pay attention, Sport:

I'm going to leave aside the instructions on not getting raped by someone you think is a friend, because the outrage is so obvious.

Lol Puck though? Real World Puck? Haha....

The best comment I read about it was someone who said that the only thing even moderately shocking about it was that it looked exactly like the breast of a 46-year-old woman.

So you demand that women as individuals, with no help from the people around them, take all the risk, while you yourself take none?Social change is not made by one person alone. There was not one lone person who became the sacrificial lamb for the Civil Rights movement, they all supported each other. When the bus…

Are you going to pay her rent for her after she gets fired for being "a bad fit" and then gets blackballed from her chosen profession due to her inability to get a reference and good old-fashioned gossip?

Since a poster asked a question and then immediately dismissed my inconveniently-pertinent reply, I'm just going to repost the whole thing here:

Because we risk actual physical violence. Check another one of the comment threads; a woman in a bar turned down advances from a guy, and he punched her in the face. I've been called a bitch, a cunt, and a slut for saying thanks but no thanks, or simply not engaging. I set my own risk-tolerance, and the risk here is…

I notice you dismissed the very lengthy post in which I explained exactly how people can do quite a lot about this.

It made a big difference in the South during the prime of the Civil Rights movement.

I'm willing to bet your father didn't open his courtship with your mother by telling her he wanted to put his penis in her mouth.

Because girls have been taught since they were tiny not to engage with aggressors. "He's just trying to get you to react!" is what we've heard all our lives, and we're told to just let it go (people on this comments thread are STILL saying that!) and don't respond and eventually they'll get bored and go away. This…