Define harassment
Let's make it clear
Harassment is any behavior that is unwanted, inappropriate, and makes someone feel uncomfortable, intimidated, degraded, or unsafe — especially when it happens repeatedly or without consent.
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🔸 Sexual Harassment (specifically):
Sexual harassment involves any sexual behavior, comment, or action that is unwanted and makes someone feel uncomfortable, disrespected, or violated. It doesn’t necessarily have to involve physical touch — words, looks, gestures, manipulation or pressure can also be harassment.
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🔍 Key elements of harassment:
– You didn’t ask for it and you didn’t welcome it.
– It crosses your personal boundaries.
– Even after showing discomfort or saying no, it continues.
– Sometimes it’s subtle, but the other person uses emotional, social, or physical pressure to get what they want.
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🧠 Examples (to make it clearer):
– Pressuring someone into talking or acting in a sexual way after they’ve said no, or even if they didn't say it, they seemed uncomfortable (body language matters too).
– Using private or sensitive information (e.g., about your sex life, private life, your past, things they've done for you, etc.) to humiliate, shame, or manipulate you.
– Repeated comments, messages, or behavior that make you feel unsafe or trapped, even if they’re disguised as “care”, “jokes” or “flirting.”
– Making you feel guilty or wrong for having personal boundaries.
If something left you feeling unsafe, uncomfortable, disrespected, ashamed, or confused
when you said no, or even if you couldn't say it or freeze up — it’s valid to explore whether it was harassment. Your feelings matter more than the intention of the other person.
Thanks for trusting us — let’s go step by step in organizing what you experienced, using the UNBLUR lens of harassment, so you can validate your experience with clarity and compassion.