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Listen to yourself, man! If someone peeked their head under a stall, would it be disproportionate violence to push him back out with your foot?

Seriously, sexual harassment is not a light crime. It does serious damage to the victim's mental state. There's no way of knowing if the perpetrator is going to take things further. If you want to state here right now that you feel that violence as a way to stop an ongoing act of close-quarters sexual harassment is a disproportionate response, then that's fine. But don't be surprised if other people in your society don't agree.

And yes, violating someone's privacy to see them naked when they obviously don't want to be seen is sexual harassment. Filming that takes it to the next level.




Pushing them away seems reasonable. Punching them in the face both escalates and doesn't actually get them further away from you.

And if you are seriously worried about someone solely because of peeking then you need to learn how to handle that worry.


You wouldn't reel back if I punched you in the face? You're man enough to shrug it off without so much as flinching? The idea is to get you to take a step back and pause so I can walk away.


I'd flinch and stumble in some direction, it might or might not be away.

There's a good chance I'd fall on you.




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