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Originally Posted by undercoverbrother
To me I am willing to extend the generic meaning of the term to include the dickwards that take part in this type of thing if it helps eradicate this type of behaviour.
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It's a slippery slope. This is a word with legal consequences. Stigmatizing it as "sexual assault" or "tantamount to rape" would also probably help reduce instances of sleazy behaviour but it also tars people being idiots with the same brush as sex offenders, which is killing-a-mosquito-with-a-sledgehammer territory. The resulting wedge just alienates a bunch of people who fundamentally agree with your position.
Melodrama and hyperbole are being used way too often these days to deal with social justice issues and it actually hampers what should be a pretty easy discussion to have. Most people aren't jerks, even if they occasionaly do something that might be jerk-like behaviour, and if a relatively level-headed discussion can be had, I think we'll discover that everyone's pretty much on board with this behaviour being generally unacceptable.