If someone objects to being patted on the behind, in public, over clothing, by a friend, it should never happen again.
But canceling someone over
what they intended to be a playful gesture is wrong.
Straight and gay friends have patted me on the behind many times and it’s never bothered me.
But canceling someone over
what they intended to be a playful gesture is wrong.
Straight and gay friends have patted me on the behind many times and it’s never bothered me.
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Being touched, commented about and followed to the point where I sometimes had to ask for help to stay safe. I can’t even count the times someone attempted to pressure me into having sex. I even had men sexually harass me when I was fourteen and walking home from
The issue is how we react after he did it and apologized.
No, it is not the same thing as grabbing a breast or a crotch.
And as I stated at the outset, it should never happen again.
There must be individual assessment before banishing people to hell.
10 years gone there.
Cost me my job, reputation, and freedom. The charges were used to extort me into not exercising my union rights. But I won through the courts. I still deal with the repercussions - 19 years later.
Bums, Boobs & Crotch areas receiving uninvited contact is not playful.