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Originally Posted by Racnad
This means that a man's behavoir is defined not by what he does or says, but by how someone else reacts to it.
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Yes. That's how harassment is legally defined. If the person perceives it as harassment, it's harassment. The "harasser"'s intentions are entirely beside the point.
That's the right way to legally define it, IMO. You could never draw up black and white rules about what constitutes harassment, because the range of human behavior is just way to broad. And you can't go by the accused's intent, because there are all sorts of behaviors that are obviously harassment that are only intended to be jokes or pranks. No, harassment really HAS to be defined "in the eye of the beholder".