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Sexual Harrassment, Where do we draw the line?
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post Feb 16 2009, 05:02 PM
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Before i post this I would just like to say that i'm a bit angry because of some ish i had to deal with last night and today relating to this but anyway here goes.

So my question is when a girl calls for sexual harassment i think there needs to be a line drawn as wo what exactly that is because if a simple touch or tap or poke is called sexual harassment even if it's accidental the person who did it is basically screwed.

What happened with me last night was i went to pick up my phone that i dropped behind a bench that people were sitting on and i bump in to this girl accidentally and my hand barley touches her ass and i pick up my phone and jus walk away.
next thing i kno i got this girl yellin in my face and she grabs my shirt and takes my shades and throws them. I simply grab her wrist to stop her from swingin around and then her sister comes outta no where and pushes me away from her yellin in my face callin me this that and the third yellin and tryna provoke me to do somethin.

so the whole thing goes on for about a good 30 minutes and i had already apologized like 4 times and the girl runs off and gets her boyfriend and what not and tries o fight me but i leave after my people came and broke it al lup.

today some kids knock on my door run up in my room rolin at least 7 deep on me and start gettin at me with this whole i hit girls and i sexually harrass girls and stuff like that and then tell me that they talked to the dean of the school and now the cops are gettin involved and i'm already basically screwed for goin to school cause i have a 5% chance that of beating this whole thing

i'm still tryna figure out how is it sexual harassment if someone touches someone i mean when u say sexual i think that it'd be on the lines of rape or talkin down bout someone sexually or anything like that but simple and pointless things like tappin someone and all that
i mean it doesn't take a genius to know that if u touch someone it's not like it killed you and usually people jus say sexual harassment they can call it on the stupidest things like so a guy touched a girls lower back as he passed by her simply to give her a lil push to get the point that he's tryna move past her. she turns around and says he sexually harassed her by touching her inappropriately. i don't think that's reasonable honestly.

but yeah i've seen it happen so question?
when do we draw a line as to what sexual harasment is and isn't.
 
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post Feb 16 2009, 05:08 PM
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Well did you actually just "tap" her? And did you ever say it was an accident or just apologize for sexually harassing her. Cause even if you didnt if she got mad and said sorry thats what she'll think your apologizing for. And was this a friend? Or where you at a friends house or what? Sounds pretty stupid to me. And deff not sexual harassment. Ive accidentally hit girls in the chest or was wallking and my hand hit their thigh. But obviously they would know im not harrasing them if i say opps sorry. Did you say sorry? Or were you just like bending down and placing your hand on their but. Just explain that it was an accident.
 
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post Feb 16 2009, 05:11 PM
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post Feb 16 2009, 06:05 PM
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if a girl calls sexual harassment and takes it to court you're pretty much screwed. she probably just wants money.
 
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post Feb 16 2009, 06:14 PM
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I remember how in my government class we were talking/watching about "How far is too far and does it take away of freedom of speech?" and the sad thing is yeah i think it does. Someone will say something that's "sexual harassment" and theres almost no way for someone to defend themselves.
Did you ever tell anyone how you dropped your phone and slipped when you were getting it? Because it almost just sounds like you just said you were sorry which is going to sound like you did do something.
 
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post Feb 16 2009, 07:06 PM
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post Feb 16 2009, 07:11 PM
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thats really stupid. just try explaining what happened...i guess im not really sure
 
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post Feb 16 2009, 08:24 PM
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Sexual harassment is a case-by-case thing. It isn't a general thing. In my opinion, if anything were to happen to you it'd probably be for putting your hands on her when she came up to you and grabbed your shirt.
 
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post Mar 5 2009, 01:02 PM
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QUOTE(JosephCohen123 @ Feb 16 2009, 05:08 PM) *
Well did you actually just "tap" her? And did you ever say it was an accident or just apologize for sexually harassing her. Cause even if you didnt if she got mad and said sorry thats what she'll think your apologizing for. And was this a friend? Or where you at a friends house or what? Sounds pretty stupid to me. And deff not sexual harassment. Ive accidentally hit girls in the chest or was wallking and my hand hit their thigh. But obviously they would know im not harrasing them if i say opps sorry. Did you say sorry? Or were you just like bending down and placing your hand on their but. Just explain that it was an accident.



i was on school campus and i barley touched her it was a light tap like how u do to get someones attention.
that was all
 
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post Mar 5 2009, 05:27 PM
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QUOTE(Tsukuyomi-No-Mokoto @ Feb 16 2009, 05:02 PM) *
Before i post this I would just like to say that i'm a bit angry because of some ish i had to deal with last night and today relating to this but anyway here goes.

So my question is when a girl calls for sexual harassment i think there needs to be a line drawn as wo what exactly that is because if a simple touch or tap or poke is called sexual harassment even if it's accidental the person who did it is basically screwed.

What happened with me last night was i went to pick up my phone that i dropped behind a bench that people were sitting on and i bump in to this girl accidentally and my hand barley touches her ass and i pick up my phone and jus walk away.
next thing i kno i got this girl yellin in my face and she grabs my shirt and takes my shades and throws them. I simply grab her wrist to stop her from swingin around and then her sister comes outta no where and pushes me away from her yellin in my face callin me this that and the third yellin and tryna provoke me to do somethin.

so the whole thing goes on for about a good 30 minutes and i had already apologized like 4 times and the girl runs off and gets her boyfriend and what not and tries o fight me but i leave after my people came and broke it al lup.

today some kids knock on my door run up in my room rolin at least 7 deep on me and start gettin at me with this whole i hit girls and i sexually harrass girls and stuff like that and then tell me that they talked to the dean of the school and now the cops are gettin involved and i'm already basically screwed for goin to school cause i have a 5% chance that of beating this whole thing

i'm still tryna figure out how is it sexual harassment if someone touches someone i mean when u say sexual i think that it'd be on the lines of rape or talkin down bout someone sexually or anything like that but simple and pointless things like tappin someone and all that
i mean it doesn't take a genius to know that if u touch someone it's not like it killed you and usually people jus say sexual harassment they can call it on the stupidest things like so a guy touched a girls lower back as he passed by her simply to give her a lil push to get the point that he's tryna move past her. she turns around and says he sexually harassed her by touching her inappropriately. i don't think that's reasonable honestly.

but yeah i've seen it happen so question?
when do we draw a line as to what sexual harasment is and isn't.

well.. u still hur.. suu dat meen u ok..

butt let me givv u sum tip..

keep u fuk hand da uself.. HOW DA FUK u touch sum gurl ass wen u git u cell..n no.. dont tell me u neva c her.. dat BS..

if i drop my shiet.. n get down da pik up.. u can bet i no who close by me or not.. u aint dum so i aint gonna call u dum..

afta u git u cell.. JET.. who da fuk car bout the beech.. u drop da cell.. go pik up.. n she pop out n u almostt touchh hurr toosh.. butt iff she keep yell n shiet.. talk shiet bak.. when u bak down.. dey keepp attak..

U SOFT negro... stubborn.gif

 

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