Where’s your line of assault vs harassed? Is it a man exposing his penis when you didn’t ask for that or agree to it? Is it a guy coming up to you and asking if you have a boyfriend and when you say yes, he grabs your face and kisses you anyway? Is it your friend’s dad grabbing your butt at a party? Or is it only penetration. What about a one night stand who keeps going after the condom breaks? Every single woman I know has several stories like the above (those are mine off the top of my head).
Those are all awful, of course. I think the defining difference between assault and harassment are contact. So all of those would be assault, except probably the guy exposing himself. Things like wolf whistling, sexual comments etc. would be considered harassment.
For what it’s worth, both are shit, don’t do either, but I think if we want a defined difference, that’d be the one I arrive at.
Where’s your line of assault vs harassed? Is it a man exposing his penis when you didn’t ask for that or agree to it? Is it a guy coming up to you and asking if you have a boyfriend and when you say yes, he grabs your face and kisses you anyway? Is it your friend’s dad grabbing your butt at a party? Or is it only penetration. What about a one night stand who keeps going after the condom breaks? Every single woman I know has several stories like the above (those are mine off the top of my head).
Those are all awful, of course. I think the defining difference between assault and harassment are contact. So all of those would be assault, except probably the guy exposing himself. Things like wolf whistling, sexual comments etc. would be considered harassment.
For what it’s worth, both are shit, don’t do either, but I think if we want a defined difference, that’d be the one I arrive at.
Holy fuck. Holy fuck^2 at the friend’s dad one what the shit.