Content warning: This blog includes descriptions of violence against LGBTI people. We are publishing these details to bear witness to survivors’ experiences. Thailand and Taiwan are hailed as champions of the rights of LGBTI people in Asia, as the only two places in the region to legalize same-sex marriage. However, rights won at the registry […]
people are using stronger words to mean things that are related. Shouting at someone is violence now, inapproprite touching (sexual assult/harrasment) is rape, being an asshole online is digitial violence.
It really devalues the meaning of the words and makes it harder for people to take real accusations seriously. I once read an article of someone claiming they had been sexually assaulted on WoWs text chat. Like what the fuck, mute them, report them, move on. You can call it harrasment if you like but there’s nothing sexual about it, it’s letters on a monitor.
depends what they’re saying, it can be sexual harrassment, but not sexual assult.