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The silence beneath this post is speaking volumes. I guess no socially exploitable damsel in distress PC reflexes here. Im very sorry for what happened to you. No being should be allowed to exploit another being without its consent.

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I think the reason for this silence is mostly because this already have been reported on HN. And if PC and indignation is used by some as a "see how much of a good person i am", this might not be the case for everyone, especially on HN.

(first time reported here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15471570)

Why do we need to describe who and what the victim is when discussing sexual harassment? The whole part of the narrative where we describe the gender, appearance, fashion choices, how many hours of yoga you have done? Why are we focussing on that aspect at all?

To add further: The difference between sexism and sexual harassment is that sexual harassment has nothing to do with the sex of the person doing the harassing or the person being harassed. As much social stigma there is for women to come out and talk about harassment, with toxic masculinity that most men suffer because of, it seems like an equally large if not larger problem. With women it is "she was asking for it" and with men it is "what a pussy" or something to that effect.

I don't think there were enough details. I usually like to see the pics of the accused and the victim to make up my mind.

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