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I'm part of the modteam for a book club. We have biweekly pub in-person meets, but we're primarily online. One of our members has a body-positive fitness social media presence. She shared this exchange with the modteam as a kind of "hey, this is a thing that happened."

We're currently discussing how to handle unwanted advances with the lady mods taking lead. Lots of planning talk that when applied to this instance may have blowback. Our discord club rules disallow being disrespectful (be respectful), but it isn't explicitly stated this extends to private conversations and in-person interactions.

There is an easy interpretation of the exchange can be summarized as, "Male user offers a makes a bad joke/compliment, is rejected, apologizes, and tries to reconcile." The prevailing interpretation is he is being a creep. I think the in-person interactions between the two is she stopped by a club meeting to say hi to us, and he was in attendance. He is a new member.

Is the exchange problematic, boys will be boys, or red flag, or yellow flag, or no flag? Is this a just have a talk with him, or tell him to take a hiatus for a couple weeks, or tell him to not come back? What's your read?


Male User, Day 1: Just want you to know I followed you and I can't help but it I am looking disrespectfully. You are ridiculously attractive.

Female User, Day 2: I don't think that's the compliment that you think it is.

Male User, Day 2: It was a meme I was attempting to reference and it clearly was not a good attempt. I'm sorry.

Male User, Day 3: I know I embarrassed myself yesterday but could I make it up by buying you a drink sometime? At book club or elsewhere?

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago (2 children)
  1. that's why both parties must be interviewed separately of course. That will give you both perspectives allowing for an informed decision to be made.

  2. For this specific situation I would say 2 is sufficient if it's clearly an accident according to both parties. 1 is sufficient if it seems to be intentional based on review.

  3. that's why I addressed if the rule was stated. If it's not there, you'll need to weigh in on the situation and make the judgment call. Then the rules have to be addressed to show the club's stance on the matter and the consequences. After that, whatever consequences are stated by the rule are how each incident is handled no exceptions.

  4. Up to you and the mod staff, but were I a mod I'm aware of no situation in which a racial slur is used as an actual prank. To drive home a point though, I am very well aware of situations where I've make a joke that didn't land well. I intended it to be funny, but it came across as weird and creepy. I apologized and it was an accident. Fortunately, that was taken into account when the situation was reviewed.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I apologized and it was an accident

Was the joke that you were horny for someone’s photos, even though you didn’t know this person at all? Did you only apologize after getting shut down, insisting the whole thing was just a “meme reference”? Did you completely undermine your own apology the following day by sliding into this person’s DMs again asking for a date, which made her so uncomfortable that she reached out for support?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago (1 children)

This feels oddly aggressive. Given I merely wanted to give my answer and cover some uncertainties I had regarding the situation and have done so with op, I'm going to disengage now as I neither feel up to nor deserve to feel attacked.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago (1 children)

A summary of the sexual harassment incident we are currently discussing makes you feel personally attacked?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago

It was the way in which you personally stated it and now continue. If that wasn't your intent then I apologize for saying it was. Nonetheless, I have nothing more to say to you given this clarification.