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Originally Posted by rjoefish
Kinda amusing for DIB to blame Gizmo and say the harassment clearly wasn't bad after all the rape story stuff.
I'm not blaming anybody. In fact, I've repeatedly tried to redirect blame talk as I'm 100% not interested in who's to blame.
I do not believe my behavior meets criteria for sexual harassment but do know Gizmo has reported (repeatedly) feeling harassed. Accepting her statements regarding her feeling harassed at face value, I'm trying to understand why forum point scoring would be worth exposing yourself to feeling sexually harassed.
To me, it's a case of either the harassment feelings being overblown, or the point scoring feeling much better than I thought. I suspect the former.
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Originally Posted by BrianTheMick2
In this case it was not only the most likely response, it was nearly inevitable. Incredibly poor strategy on your part.
It is more social pecking order than fight or flight. By threatening to act weird, you effectively made her attacking you socially acceptable to everyone (except for a certain strange aunt who disapproves of everything anyway). That carries tons more weight than the possibility of you saying weird stuff again.
If being "weird" were what she risked exposing herself to, then I'd basically be in agreement.
But Giz feels my behavior is far worse than weird. It's sexual harassment. When you sub in "sexual harassment" for "acting weird" above your theory doesn't really fit, unless of course point scoring (and the subsequent social benefits) outweigh the cost of being sexually harassed; something I already listed as a potential option, but felt was only possible if she didn't feel sexually harassed.
Unless you disagree? Do you think point scoring and the associated social benefits outweigh the costs of being sexually harassed as opposed to merely "acting weird?"