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Comment author: [deleted] 08 September 2012 09:12:15PM 4 points [-]

Italian doesn't even have a good translation for creepy! (Inquietante ‘unsettling’ is close, but not quite there.) :-)

(Smiley obligatory per Poe's Law, as some people seem to take such arguments seriously.)

Comment author: Emile 08 September 2012 09:35:46PM 2 points [-]

Neither does French, by the way, which seems to indicate some difference on how that topic is considered in different cultures.

I'm not familiar enough with gender issues in geek conventions in France to tell what forms similar concerns take here; though I do remember a girl complaining that Richard Stallman kept staring at her boobs.

Comment author: ikrase 03 February 2013 06:10:08PM 0 points [-]

Have heard that some parts of Europe have very large problems with sexual harassment of an agressive form beyond creepyness.