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<blockquote data-quote="Gradine" data-source="post: 6879175" data-attributes="member: 57112">Funny story, but this is actually true; at least as far as harassment in the workplace goes. Harassment, as a legal term (which I think, broadly, that is what we are referring to in this thread), has some pretty specific definitions. Again, at least as far as the workplace is concerned, if a person states they were being harassed, then legally they were being harassed. Can't speak for non-workplace settings.Of course, that isn't at all what I said. What I said that if a person feels they were being &quot;terrorized&quot; then they were, in fact, being terrorized, which is true. Terror is a personal, emotional reaction to an external stimuli; terror in particular is an immediate, visceral reaction. Once does not choose to be terrorized. Either you believe a person when they tell you their emotional state or you are accusing them of some form of dishonesty. There is no middle ground there.Now, whether such external stimuli was intentional or unintentional &quot;terrorism&quot; is probably worth discussing. Also worth discussing is what, if anything, we should be doing about it; either at a institutional level (be that con organizers; FLGS owners; forum mods; DMs; etc.) or at a personal, social level (ie; everyone involved in gaming attempting to change the culture that breeds/tolerates such behavior).</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Gradine, post: 6879175, member: 57112"] Funny story, but this is actually true; at least as far as harassment in the workplace goes. Harassment, as a legal term (which I think, broadly, that is what we are referring to in this thread), has some pretty specific definitions. Again, at least as far as the workplace is concerned, if a person states they were being harassed, then legally they were being harassed. Can't speak for non-workplace settings. Of course, that isn't at all what I said. What I said that if a person feels they were being [i]"terrorized"[/i] then they were, in fact, being terrorized, which is true. Terror is a personal, emotional reaction to an external stimuli; terror in particular is an immediate, visceral reaction. Once does not [i]choose[/i] to be terrorized. Either you believe a person when they tell you their emotional state or you are accusing them of some form of dishonesty. There is no middle ground there. Now, whether such external stimuli was intentional or unintentional "terrorism" is probably worth discussing. Also worth discussing is what, if anything, we should be doing about it; either at a institutional level (be that con organizers; FLGS owners; forum mods; DMs; etc.) or at a personal, social level (ie; everyone involved in gaming attempting to change the [i]culture[/i] that breeds/tolerates such behavior). [/QUOTE]

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