This is just to say:
To everybody who has opined recently that sexual harassment policies at conventions mean an end to flirtation, dating, and romance at cons--
I'm involved in a relationship with somebody I met, befriended, and grew to love largely at conventions. He never once felt the need to grope me, make an inappropriate comment on my body or dress, or ask if anything I was wearing was meant as a coded sexual message before the moment when we figured out that we were each interested in one another in a romantic sense.
Neither flirting nor building emotional connection is harassment, folks--and harassment is not flirting.
It's not actually all that complicated.
I'm involved in a relationship with somebody I met, befriended, and grew to love largely at conventions. He never once felt the need to grope me, make an inappropriate comment on my body or dress, or ask if anything I was wearing was meant as a coded sexual message before the moment when we figured out that we were each interested in one another in a romantic sense.
Neither flirting nor building emotional connection is harassment, folks--and harassment is not flirting.
It's not actually all that complicated.
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