I can say exactly the same thing. My inbox would discomfit you in your defense of CH's behavior as being merely creepy and in bad taste, but not constituting harassment, threats, violations of privacy, harmful or otherwise improper behavior.
I guarantee you it is harmful. Do you not see that this post is designed specifically to inflict emotional harm?:
Message 17422314
(BTW, why are you beating this horse? ! It must not be dead!)
I wonder if your wife or daughter was on the receiving end, for months, of threats and insinuations, including allusions to her private life, and children, if you would think it was something to brush off lightly.
I wonder if you yourself personally asked the stalker, oh, excuse me, the "creep," to leave your wife alone, and he wouldn't do it, if you would feel that constituted harassment.
Maybe not. Maybe you are an unusual man. If I were being stalked and menaced as Poet has been (see above link for one example), my husband would be on the phone with CH's wife, first, and if that didn't do it, would be on his porch. If that didn't work, the WA Bar Association would be asked for advice, and after that, CH would be sued for the emotional distress this prolonged harassment had caused us. If it had taken the toll on my health that this has taken on Poet's, he would be sued for that, too.
And we have never sued anyone in our lives, or even threatened to. Neither have either of our parents. We are not litigious people. But this has been outrageous. As has been the trivializing of it done by certain witnesses to the behavior. |
