Poor Dave, this was the worst story for me.

I don’t even think s/he is a troll, just a contrarian with a painful inability to think critically about just about anything. As I said above, I’m pretty sure s/he’s the same person who argued that Gamergate is a legitimate social movement exactly like feminism.

stalking and harassment

I called the police once when this guy was following me and kept on commenting on what a whore I was. He described - in detail - all the things that he would do to me and then tried to kick me when I asked him to leave me alone. The cops told me that there was nothing that they could do. That there was no proof and,…

Lawyer here, what she did absolutely does not meet the criminal standard to have committed stalking and/or harassing. And what he did is not sexual assault. What we have here is a creep being a creep and then being shamed for being a creep. A/K/K poetic Justice.

It’s not. Stalking laws are written specifically (in most states) that the intent of the stalker is to cause the person being stalked to feel fear through a pattern of behavior. Her intent here is to confront him about his behavior, which would not fall under that statute, in my experience in part because of her…

You just rode your pony off the cliff, I'm afraid. We agreed previously that we were talking about legal action on both sides. You're now contending that short skirts are indecent? If she was even wearing one, which we can't demonstrate with any of the evidence presented? Fail. Back to argumentation 101 for you, I'm…

My hope is that his wife goes to his computer where he’s probably downloaded all of his fucked up secret films and fucks him up.

Who cares if it “edges on harassment?” This asshole deserves public humiliation for being a creep.

He’s scared that the womens is gonna start getting braver and call him out on his own sexual transgressions in public and make him pee his pants in terror.

I disagree with you. If he was dong what she accused him of, especially little girls, he is a creep. It may have been slightly dangerous but if you think the police take stalking and sexual crimes seriously, then you are not a US citizen. You are on planet somewhere else.

It’s him

Letting men like this think they can intimidate women into silence is what’s really dangerous.

Since the behavior is, weirdly, legal, evidence doesn’t much matter. Last time this happened to me I took the phone from the dude’s hand (he was leaning out of his friend’s car to take video), deleted it myself, and threatened to throw the phone over a bridge if he didn’t apologize.

Actually *pushes glasses up nose and clears throat* it was two days later, and the legislative body made the change, not the judicial body. And that doesn’t detract from the fact that the courts DID uphold it as legal. It was only AFTER the public outcry over the courts’ decision that Governor Patrick went over their…

You mean the time the courts said it was legal then immediately (within a day) closed that loophole? That was literally the quickest I have ever seen a law changed on any level. If you’re gonna call us out over something, at lest get your facts right.

I feel like since some courts have decided that’s ok I think public shaming is really all we have left. Good on her for passing on some humiliation, honestly.

Come on internet, how long does it take to identify someone?

That right there is the kind of guy that got irrationally angry about his right to be a creep when creep shots got shut down on Reddit. Loser.

So dangerous, and brave. It takes serious guts to confront men in public. One time a man took a photo of me at a pizza place and I marched up and demanded he delete it while I watched. It was very scary! But I think it shakes them. Maybe if we all start being brave we can discourage creeps. Maybe not tho since…