Call me old-fashioned, but I want a man who will protect me like I'm the reputation of a guy he's never met.
Catalog
Kate Willett
AllThe Reckoning (3)The Difference Between Flirting and Harassment (3)Empathy (3)Rape Culture (3)Sexual Assault Awareness (3)Changing the Cultural Climate (3)Sexual Harassment (3)Flirting vs. Sexual Harassment (3)#metoo (3)Flirting (3)MeToo (3)Building Desire (2)Sexual Aggression vs. Empathy (2)Eros (2)The Art of Flirting (2)
Sexual harassment is the opposite. It's devoid of empathy and it's about forcing your will upon another person without having any regard for their desire.
Good flirting is fundamentally empathetic. It's about building desire and it's often pretty subtle. It's paying such deep attention to another person's emotions and body language that you create more intimacy with them. It's a two-way, playful, fun exchange that makes everyone feel good.
I love to be flirted with. I don't like being sexually harassed. These two things are not the same, and if you're arguing the point "now men can't flirt anymore," you don't understand what flirting is or you're just pretending not to in order to set up a straw man argument in favor of sexual…