This approach of listing possible excuses for perpetrators, and accusing hypothetical victims of making it all up, is a big part of the culture of support for creeps that the linked articles are complaining about.
Your comment, and ones like it, are part of the problem.
Wow, sweeping dismissal of legit concern. Sometimes people do creepy things. When they do, it’s very important to the people they’re creeping on that they be believed. This doesn’t mean sentences of the form “X is creepy” have some kind of sacredness property that immunizes them from ever being false or used for goals they shouldn’t be.
This approach of listing possible excuses for perpetrators, and accusing hypothetical victims of making it all up, is a big part of the culture of support for creeps that the linked articles are complaining about.
Your comment, and ones like it, are part of the problem.
Wow, sweeping dismissal of legit concern. Sometimes people do creepy things. When they do, it’s very important to the people they’re creeping on that they be believed. This doesn’t mean sentences of the form “X is creepy” have some kind of sacredness property that immunizes them from ever being false or used for goals they shouldn’t be.