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Originally Posted by Loctus
It's bad and he's an ******* but he got 9 months prison and 5 years probation. I'm usually on the far side "for the love of god sentence people harder" but this seems proportional to me. Where the **** did I say it seems normal?
you said he seems like an ass but not more than that
i think most have crossed the line at various points while flirting - whenever I read reports about sexual harassment/sexually inappropriate advances etc I can't help but realize that I've done a lot of those things described but the difference was that I correctly read the room and it was well received and can easily see how my dumbass could have mistaken interest and done something regretable - frankly a lot of the metoo stuff goes down regularly amongst consenting adults who are into it - like louie ck, i'm extremely sympathetic to him because he literally asked the girls "can i jerk off in front of you" and they said yes and so he did and then years later they said they felt like they were forced into it due to the power dynamic as they were young aspiring female comics
but everyone knows better than to forcibly shove your hand in a high school student's pants when you're her boss and in your 20s and she's repeatedly rejected your sexual advances already
i definitely think that's more than being an ass
granted the punishment feels a bit extreme but i think most punishments for sexual assault tend to be for good reason - overwhelming majority goes unreported so you can usually assume they've done it before and will do it again