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Re:The dark side of open source conferences [about women bei... by brazzy on Friday December 03, 2010 @09:50AM (#1965988)
None of the incidents described carry any hint of sexual deviancy. The worst of them are "just" cases of someone making unwanted sexual advances - being (way) too quick to go beyond flirting and too slow to back off.

This can be due to a lack of respect for women in general, but also due to a mix of social ineptness and sheer desparation. And you can't tell me the latter is not statistically more likely to occur in geeks.

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Re:The dark side of open source conferences [about women bei... by timelinex on Friday December 03, 2010 @09:57AM (#1966020)
I think the my first paragraph pointed that out that there are two types of things happening here. One guys aren't aware that they over steps some bounds.

But putting your hand down a females underwear and hitting someone's bum unexpectedly. Normal people don't do that.

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