Parsifal

3 hours ago, Drew said:

A concern many are raising. On the Peter Martins thread people have quoted laws on sexual harrassment at some length to address it. These legal definitions have greater precision and speak to more serious behaviors than flirting or one time making a pass at someone etc. 

 

 

We do not know what the accusation against Marcelo was and if it constituted criminal behavior. Nowadays, the message on media and Twitter is that anything that leaves a woman uncomfortable is harassment, and conduct can have far reaching consequences even if it breaks no laws. A few weeks ago, a minister in the UK resigned because he was accused of putting his hand on a female journalist's knee in the early 2000s, or something like that, even though that is not, I think, criminal behavior in Britain. The definition of harassment has become subjective, sometimes arbitrary and biased, which is probably where Apolinnaire and Wendy were coming from in their comments.

^ Exact what I would expect, a pearl-clutch disguised as a review.