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Re:France Bans Street Harassment, Approving Hefty Fines for ... by mamurphy on Friday August 03, 2018 @03:13AM (#17677826)
There are some great documentaries that show how unpleasant it can be as a woman to walk through a city. It's awful.

How do we go about remedying this situation without making criminals out of anyone who has a spur-of-the-moment interaction with a stranger a potential criminal? I think that's an important question, and I wonder how (if?) this French law addresses it.

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Re:France Bans Street Harassment, Approving Hefty Fines for ... by joelbluminator on Friday August 03, 2018 @03:21AM (#17677860)
if you ask directions from someone no one will put you in jail. if you're yelling sexual or harassing shit to someone who's walking by you then it's a problem. Where is the grey area?
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Re:France Bans Street Harassment, Approving Hefty Fines for ... by mamurphy on Friday August 03, 2018 @03:23AM (#17677868)
Presumably somewhere between those two polar opposite examples.
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Re:France Bans Street Harassment, Approving Hefty Fines for ... by matthewmacleod on Friday August 03, 2018 @03:30AM (#17677904)
That’s why we have courts and flexibility in legal systems.

I’d argue that it’s impossible to build an objective description of what actions constitute harassment. Most interactions are going to clearly fall on one side or the other. The ones that don’t, we’ll figure out.

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