Questions tagged [harassment]
An often recurring behaviour that annoys or upsets someone.
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How to Deal with Harassment Pranksters in Public?
Harassment pranksters create content that solely involves harassing people.
They make people visibly uncomfortable and, in some cases, creating potentially unsafe situations.
My general strategy in ...
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Confront supposed harassment/abuse on a bus stop
Scenario: You walk by a bus station and notice a, supposedly, couple that behaves suspicious.
The woman seems to be afraid of the man (stares to the ground, submissive posture, he holds her arm ...
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How to ask a female friend to stop harassing my boyfriend?
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When we were in high-school, a male friend of mine (let's say X) developed a crush on another friend (Y). Ever since he told her about this, she started acting as if she owned him. She ...
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How to respond to challenges about using the women's restroom as a trans woman
I'm a transgender woman, and I'm getting to the point in my transition where I'm starting to use the women's restroom. However, given the recent climate around transgender people using the appropriate ...
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How can I get my neighbor to stop disturbing me overnight? [closed]
I've been living at my apartment for a year now. Ever since we moved here, we've been having problems with our upstairs neighbor.
We've tried lots of things to accommodate her; for instance, when she ...
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How can I better improve peoples views of me?
I frequent a chatroom with a small community. Many types of discussions occur that I don't usually join in on. It's partially because I often don't feel like contributing because what I have to say ...
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how to speak to neighbors that you know are not going to be open to any conversation? [closed]
I moved into a ground floor apartment a little over a year ago. No long after two young men moved in above me. Within the first week I was constantly being awoken by loud stomping, heavy items being ...
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How to deal with aunt harassing my 15-year-old daughter for money?
I'm uncertain how to deal with a family issue.
My 15-year-old daughter is being hounded by her aunt for $8,000, for no good reason, and she's kept phoning her cellphone morning, noon and night.
She ...
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Old friend that calls me multiple times a day, How can I talk to him about it?
I have this old college "friend" that has been calling me for years almost every day. We live over 1,000 miles apart now and haven't actually seen each other face to face for over 5 years now. But it ...
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How to tell a "friend" to stop pretending to flirt with my girlfriend?
There's this acquaintance of both my girlfriend and I that pretends to flirt with my girlfriend. Neither of us are close enough with him to classify him as a "friend," though both my girlfriend and I ...
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What are sensible dating precautions to avoid accusations of sexual harassment? [closed]
Recently, a woman accused a celebrity of sexually assaulting her. Her account has been widely criticised as not describing sexual harassment, but simply describing a bad date.
One of the articles ...
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Coworker scans my body. How to best tell him to stop?
So, a (male) coworker of mine has the annoying habit of scanning my (female) body each time he walks by. By "scanning" I mean he's looking me up and down; essentially making it clear he is looking at ...
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Dealing with sexual comments from customers
One of my best friends had to deal with a creeper at work today. She's a rather attractive young woman, and gets unwanted attention on a fairly regular basis, maybe once every couple of weeks, when ...
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How to deal with bullies who are teacher's pets? [closed]
I am a 13-year-old boy of eighth standard. I am neither very unpopular, nor very popular in school. E.g., everyone knows me because I am a "good student"(because I get good grades), thus I am popular. ...
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How to deal with unwanted attention at the swimming pool?
I swim twice a week in a sports complex. My hours are late and the place is almost empty.
A few days ago a guy started a chat with me while I was in the sauna. I saw nothing wrong with it, so I ...
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