If street harassment is a sliding scale, then saying hey is on the far low end of it. Plus, there's no strict definition of what a "sexual hey" would sound like so something like that is really open to interpretation. Context is important too.
Which is why women speaking up about it is so important.
On topic:
Hah, I thought of the same thing. It's exactly the same kind of shitty victim-blaming reasoning, taken to its "logical" conclusion.
Its hard to even make sense of in my head. Some shitty mixture of no social calibration, desire for peer approval with a lack of self awareness? Or just a lack of empathy
It's not difficult at all. I think any hetero dude will treat women differently than they treat men though so that post was kind of ridiculous.
It's not reasonable to demand that people never speak to anyone in public, so labeling a typically innocuous greeting as harassment without any qualifications or context reduces the effectiveness of the messaging. That was the whole problem with DARE. The goal was reasonable, but the messaging wasn't nuanced enough, so people tuned it out. For those edge cases, there's a lot of good discussion to be had.
Please don't out words in my mouth. I never once said no on should interact with anyone else.
Provocation is the act of provoking, doing something to get a reaction.
Using certain inflections?
