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> The recent tendency to take compliments and blow them out of proportion
> serves to undermine the justice we seek in dealing with REAL cases of
> harrassment. As a victim of harassment on two different jobs, I can tell
> the difference between someone calling me bright and acknowledging me as
> a female and someone trying to touch me inappropriately or making
> suggestive and rude comments. If we don't draw a _reasonable_ line for
> appropriate behavior, people will be afraid to even say hello or speak to
> each other anymore. Let's get real, folks! I would never consider a
> compliment such as "bright lassie" to be anything but a kind gesture from
> a nice colleague. The rest of the post in question was professional in
> nature.
> This victim mentality is crippling to us all.
