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How come women should see 'sexual harassment' as a compliment?

How come women are expected by men to see sexual or street harassment as a compliment, but when homosexual men do the same to men, they rarely see it as a compliment either?

Many men act downright aggressive towards homosexual men that give them 'compliments' in the same manner women are meant to see as compliments, especially lesbian women. Being from the LGBT community, I see the above a lot.

"Straight men get offended when a gay man hits on them. But I am supposed to be "flattered" when a straight man hits on me even thought they know I am Lesbian?"

Update:

Not sure what we class as sexual harassment anymore, but I'm referring to extremely sexual, degrading, and offensive terms as compliments.

"That B*tch has nice t*ts. I'd bang that hoe."

Update 2:

I missed out the word heterosexual in the Q description. You should be able to work it out. :)

Update 3:

You HONESTLY have NEVER heard of men saying women should be flattered by the above? Really? Seriously? Wow. It happens often - it's compliment apparently.

Update 4:

Temple, how about in a Gay bar? Men go for lesbians there often....

Update 6:

I put it in quotes because I don't know if saying stuff along the lines of "That B*tch has nice t*ts. I'd bang that hoe" is sexual harassment, like I said.

Update 7:

This is one 'compliment' my lesbian friend got:

''hey girl I know you're lesbian but one night with me and I'll make you straight again ;) You too sexy to be gay."

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  • Anonymous
    7 years ago
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    they don't do it as a compliment- they do it because they are threatened and they see the penis as a weapon

    i know the claimed penis size of many of the good ole gs boys - only because they constantly post it in answers to questions that have nothing to do with penis...

    makes them look like silly kids

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  • Anonymous
    5 years ago

    "...as soon as you give friendly rub downs to women it is suddenly a weird thing." I don't see how this could ever be considered a normal thing. We, or, I, at least, don't appreciate being touched by random guys. Male hormones are a lot stronger than female ones. How many female rapists are there? Also, I don't know any women that flip out at a compliment like "your hair looks nice." Where the hell do you work?

  • Anonymous
    7 years ago

    I am pretty sure there is a difference between a compliment and sexual harassment. If some dude says you are pretty, he just complimented you. If he comes up and says how much he loves your boobs, that is sexual harassment.

    And then there is no way for the guy to know the chick is a lesbian unless she tells him beforehand or she is just one of the super masculine ones... No one is just going to assume.

    A better parallel is if a lesbian were to hit on a heterosexual female. Same thing as a gay man coming on to a straight guy. Both would be unwanted sexual advances toward someone.

    Edit - I have never been to a gay bar and so cannot comment on how often that happens or not, but one of my friends is a bisexual and she is dating a man.

    She has taken him to gay bars with her on occasion.

    And some people flirt as a way of socializing with the opposite or even same sex. It could be harmless. Things are not black and white. People can take offense but does not mean it was the other person intent.

    And it depends on their approach... if they are not being rude or anything, then telling them you are not interested should not be so bad or hard.

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  • 7 years ago

    First of all the premise of your question is totally wrong. Who says that women should view sexual harassment as a compliment? A few perverts may see it that way, but not the majority of women. Therefore the rest of your argument is moot. Men react against sexual suggestions with aggression while women shrink away and if they act aggressive at all, most of them report the incident to the authorities in their work place, or don't say anything so as not to cause any waves. But, nothing in a normal woman's makeup sees sexual harassment as a compliment. The fact that you placed the phrase sexual harassment in quotes says a lot about how you view the problem.

  • I don't know but why should men consider women sexually harassing him to be a compliment?

  • ?
    Lv 5
    7 years ago

    you know it's funny you brought that up. I kind of thought about that today.

    I do notice my own hypocrisy from time to time.

    It makes me laugh.

  • Anonymous
    7 years ago

    So the harassers can do it with impunity, of course. So it can be socially acceptable to perv on women and we will look foolish if we call them out on it. With such people, it's okay to get sassy/mean.

  • 7 years ago

    Unwanted sexual advances are never compliments. Regardless of the gender doing it, or receiving it, it's annoying and often times downright creepy.

  • Lhotse
    Lv 7
    7 years ago

    It is common for a man who sexually harasses a woman to tell her she should take it as compliment. What that tells me is that not only is he a creep, he is also stupid.

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