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Harasssment or not

I have been kicked out of a organization for harassing a female member. I emailed her and called her after she had requested that I stop emailig and calling her. I thought the harassment accusation was a very weird joke, because she kept giving me the same physical flirting indications before and after accusation that she wanted me to pursue a relationship.

Today I believe she is trying to signal me by calling me from a out of area number and hanging up when I answer. I also believe her friends are giving me hints by looking at me and smiling. If I can prove she is trying to signal me via the phone or her friends would this prove my advances were not unwanted. My advances are wantd just possibly not at this time and therefore no harassment occured.

Can confusing physical flirting signs cause the accusation to be false. Do actions matter or do just spoken and written words matter in sexual harassment cases?


Asked on 10/09/04, 10:31 pm

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Dr. Michael A. S. Guth Tennessee Attorney at Law Assists Pro Se (without a lawyer) Parties

Re: Harasssment or not

I am going to offer you some non-legal advice. When a woman asks you to quit writing her, and then you go ahead and send another e-mail message, something is wrong with you. This is not a wierd joke. What you describe as her friends staring at you may not be any kind of flirting at all. They may be watching you to see if their friend needs a court order preventing you from having contact with her.

I don't see how a grown adult gets so confused about what is happening. You were kicked out of an organization for sexual harassment. That should have been a wake up call to you that something you were doing was wrong.

You need to put this woman out of your mind completely and have no further contact with her at all. Even if you think she wants contact, you need to have self-discipline and avoid her.

I'm not going to suggest that you get psychological counseling, because that will likely be interpretted as an insult. Instead, I would say that you questions show that you are failing to grasp the severity of the situation. Why don't you consider some worst case scenarios, e.g., that she seeks a protective order and you get arrested for violating it, or she sues you for money damages for continuing to bother her?

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Answered on 10/10/04, 9:53 am


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