Leg-touching is too low a threshold, and can happen inadvertently in a crowded venue. Grabbing your bits, that would be different.
My young adult daughter was groped in a crowded pub once and gave the guy a beatdown. Footswept him and kept knocking him down when he tried to get up, until the bouncers threw him out. There were witnesses, and he had escalated after she’d already told him to back off. There was no ambiguity about what he was up to. There were no charges. And this was in the UK, where throwing hands can get you an ABH or GBH charge if you carry matters even a little bit too far.
But that’s not what happened with LaBeouf. He was the aggressor, his defense was bullshit, and he took a plea.
So, do you spend a lot of time running scenarios through your mind about how violently you’re going to respond if a gay guy touches you?
Leg-touching is too low a threshold, and can happen inadvertently in a crowded venue. Grabbing your bits, that would be different.
My young adult daughter was groped in a crowded pub once and gave the guy a beatdown. Footswept him and kept knocking him down when he tried to get up, until the bouncers threw him out. There were witnesses, and he had escalated after she’d already told him to back off. There was no ambiguity about what he was up to. There were no charges. And this was in the UK, where throwing hands can get you an ABH or GBH charge if you carry matters even a little bit too far.
But that’s not what happened with LaBeouf. He was the aggressor, his defense was bullshit, and he took a plea.
So, do you spend a lot of time running scenarios through your mind about how violently you’re going to respond if a gay guy touches you?