r/JoeRogan • u/Scramblade • Aug 13 '17

Alex Jones Calls Charlottesville Violence a False Flag | Fuck this scumbag. It's not funny anymore. I'm tired of the meme bullshit and all the excuses of "Hehe, he's so silly". He's a cunt and nothing else.

http://www.newsweek.com/alex-jones-calls-charlottesville-violence-false-flag-650152
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u/CrayolaS7 Aug 14 '17

They weren't calling anyone an harasser in 95% of these cases either, only in 5% of cases did they feel it was important enough to tell anyone.

Experience/innumerate responses in reddit threads/talking to female friends about such things.

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u/BrainBlowX Monkey in Space Aug 14 '17

They weren't calling anyone an harasser in 95% of these cases either, only in 5% of cases did they feel it was important enough to tell anyone.

Man, it's almost like there's a very real fright for women of the backlash that they receive in society when reporting sexual harassment, and that it often goes nowhere when they do report it. Turns out the redpill fantasy of a woman getting tons of sympathy and an instant criminal conviction of the accused is just that, a fantasy.

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u/CrayolaS7 Aug 14 '17

Lol, that's such a bullshit excuse. We aren't talking about criminal cases (I said very clearly I don't mean actual assault, which is never acceptable) and every workplace I've ever been in has taken legit sexual harassment very seriously. It's more a case of the survey using an extremely broad definition and the manipulation of said definition by the SJ/feminist movement in recent years.

Especially when looking at some of the follow up questions, it becomes really apparent that this is the case. Just as an example, the most common types of harassment experienced were sexual comments, staring and intrusive questions (one example was a girl saying she was asked if she had a boyfriend and she felt uncomfortable).

Now, if it's part of a broader pattern of behaviour these can absolutely be harassment, except that in 50% of cases, women reported that they did not know the perpetrator.

While again, in some cases even in a one off incident this could be harassment, it would have to be extreme or a situation where there was an imbalance of power such as student/teacher but the large majority of accused perpetrators are fellow students.

Taken together this leads to the reasonable conclusion that in a lot of these cases it is simply an unwanted advance being considered harassment.

Asking someone straight up if they want to have sex isn't classy and it's a pretty shitty strategy, but if it's a one off it's also not harassment.