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2 min readJun 18, 2024

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My stance on this is what's good for the goose is good for the gander.

It's not like there's not a legal recourse for being slandered.

If the law is so great at solving these peoblems, why isn't it being used?

Seems like you want women to pin all redtrss on the police and courts to get justice but are unwilling to utilize the same resources if theyre being abused.

And slander is abuse. If it's actually slander. There is no expectation of privacy on public, if you walk into frame or kick off in public, you will be seen. Reporting or recording is not slander. The law generally defines harrassment based upon the perception of a reasonable person feelings about the actions.

Here in AZ, the statute reads: According to Arizona Revised Statute (ARS) 13-2921, harassment is defined as a series of repeated acts directed at a specific person that would cause a reasonable person to feel alarmed, unsafe, annoyed, humiliated, or mentally distressed. The conduct must be intentional and serve no legitimate purpose. A single incident, no matter how unpleasant, does not constitute harassment.

Now, just because one aingle incident was recorded, doesn't mean the report about harassment was a lie. It doesn't have to be over several days or separate incidents.

It's repeated acts that makes it harassment.

That's the legal standard.

But. There's also the social standards. Like, the guy in the car in the original article.

You can still experience harassment by a group when each individual does the act only once and has no knowledge of what others are doing.

Like a guy oogling you or catcalling you from a car while driving by.

She might have been out running dornan hours or more and been catcalled multiple times. Maybe she finally got fed up and filmed a guy and posts it and says she's being harassed by men.

That's correct. She is, unless a wiman also catxalls her from tge car while she's out running.

It doesn't matter that each guy only did it once and on their own with no coordination between them.

It's still a repeated act that would make any reasonable person feel threatened, targeted, or humiliated.

And it's men doing it.

She can't hold any one of thrm legally responsible. The si gle act by each one doesn't rise to the level of criminal conduct.

But she's making social commentary that is not slander. She said men are harassing her, not that the one guy is.

And he can't claim harassment either because she only filmed him, in particular, and posted it once.

Maybe he should consider minding his business instead of hers if he doesn't want to be seen and scrutinized more broadly for his public conduct.

Y'all act like women aren't getting the same treatment when they make fools of themselves or behave inappropriately in public.

They are. Cameras are everywhere now. Big brother is watching. Welcome to Oceania, or reality's version of it.

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