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Originally Posted by OMG!WTF!
But that's beside the point. The issue with people blowing this off as a nothing event is that 1) most sex assaults in Canada go unreported. The main reason for this is that people think that they are not important enough to report. A part of that problem is people going "it's no big deal" "if someone kissed me I wouldn't worry about it" and so on. It is a big deal if for no other reason than to encourage people who would actually feel assaulted by a random kiss on the whatever.
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Originally Posted by polak
Are you giving people crap for thinking they would not report this?
So because you think it's an outrage, I have to think it's an outrage too?
I've had my junk firmly grabbed by random girls at festivals before. 100% sexual assault by the law. Reporting it never even crossed my mind. Does that make me a bad person?
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I don't believe anyone is saying you are a bad person for not reporting it but if you wanted to report it you should not have to feel shamed for being a victim. And you don't have to be outraged, but some are outraged so you can't tell them how to feel.
What is a bad situation is telling someone who reported this to police that they are wrong to have done so and should just get on with their lives. (not trying to call you out here polak, there seems to be a lot of people telling a victim of assault to get over it)
There is no doubt she was harassed or assaulted, sexual or not I don't care. It's up to the RCMP and judges to define the exact terms they want to use on it. They could call it murder in the 9th degree as much as I care, the fact is what he did was wrong and there should be punishment, be it community service or just a fine, something to show this is not something we should be condoning in society. I don't think it matters that she was working or the guy was drunk, last I checked being drunk was not an excuse from the law for assault. If a person walking the streets downtown during the day was just kissing everyone in site and running away as people were going to work I sure hope that would be illegal and I would sure hope that I could claim self defence after decking said asshat.