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NanceGreggs

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7. There is a difference ...
Wed Dec 13, 2017, 07:02 PM
Dec 2017

... between sexual harassment and sexual assault. There is a difference between sexually inappropriate comments and rape.

Lumping them together serves no purpose, other than to diminish the victims of actual molestation/rape by putting their experiences on the same par as women who are harassed by unwelcome comments of a sexual nature.

“Well, What Were You Wearing?” captures images of what victims were wearing while they were sexually assaulted, NOT what they were wearing when they were sexually harassed. And there IS a difference between the two.

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