Jonathan_Graehl comments on How to deal with someone in a LessWrong meeting being creepy - Less Wrong

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Comment author: RichardKennaway 07 September 2012 09:30:54PM *  7 points [-]

What this boils down to is trying to get the benefit of excluding low status folks without thinking about the "nasty" "exclusionary" mechanisms that cause such convenient exclusion in real life.

The fuck it does. This is about creepiness. Actual attempts at unwelcome intimacy. Whoever from and whoever to.

It is not about status, except to the extent that high status can (this is a bad thing) protect the perpetrators of actual creepy behaviour from being called to account, and low status (this is also a bad thing) can prevent the target from being heard.

For further enlightenment, see, for example, here.

Comment author: Jonathan_Graehl 09 September 2012 09:04:51PM 7 points [-]

attempts at (unwelcome intimacy) = naked aggression.

unwelcome (attempts at intimacy) = failure to anticipate rejection. both sides lost.

asking for harsher penalties for the second (which is already quite painful) is like asking cops to beat up panhandlers - the price you pay for a place you want to live.