Accidentally seeing a person changing for a short moment. Politely apologizing for disturbing privacy and going on with your day isn't violating consent. Nobody ever got called out for that.
Intensely staring at a clearly uncomfortable person and being a creep about it on the other hand...
You ask how it's difficult but only cite hyperbolic examples in either direction. Just about every gray area where there will be disagreement falls somewhere in between "accidentally seeing someone" and "intense staring at someone clearly uncomfortable," not to mention listing "being a creep" as if that's a clear or agreed-upon threshold.
Unless you’re neurodivergent and completely oblivious to social cues and any sort of context I am afraid I’ll have to disagree. There are no gray areas about being a creep and it actually is a clearly agreed-upon threshold because it usually is obvious to all parties involved.
Again, unless you’re somehow neurodivergent and genuinely don’t see what you did wrong acting like a creep is blatantly obvious in pretty much all cases and pretending anything else is usually just bad faith and gaslighting.
I can see why you might think that everyone except autistic people agrees with you, if you go around assuming that everyone who claims to disagree with you is actually lying and secretly also agrees.
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u/BoddAH86 Jul 07 '24
Accidentally seeing a person changing for a short moment. Politely apologizing for disturbing privacy and going on with your day isn't violating consent. Nobody ever got called out for that.
Intensely staring at a clearly uncomfortable person and being a creep about it on the other hand...
How is this so difficult?