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Re: Making STEM a better place for women
The sooner we stop focusing on teaching girls how to deal with harassment from boys, and start teaching boys not to harass girls, the better. The onus needs to be on the perpetrators of harassment, not the victims.
And yes, what you might call "normal teenage behaviour" or "creepiness", I call harassment.
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