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> Sexual Harassment can mean anything to these usurpers.

This is a complete strawman. Sexual harassment is well defined. It would be unwanted and, especially, persistent sexual attention.

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By definition, literally any rejection of an intimate advance would make that advance "unwanted". Should we as a society interpret this to mean that the only people allowed to flirt with other people are ones who are successful 100% of the time?

Now, obviously if he persisted after rejection then that changes things, but it doesn't seem like that's been alleged AFAICT.

> Sexual harassment is well defined. It would be unwanted and, especially, persistent sexual attention.

Don't go to latin america or you'd be in for a surprise. Or Japan.

In Spain on weekends it can be in both ways and with different sexual orientations.

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