Romantic Harassment - Tumblr Posts

Honestly? I think that's the reason I always hated the idea that if a man expresses his romantic interest in a woman in an extremely creepy way, that must mean he just wants her to touch his dick.

You don't have to shove harmful romantic expressions into a sexual box in order to explain how they could cause harm, and the fact that you feel a need to is reductive to our understanding of human interactions. Stop it.

here's a thing i haven't seen people talk about for whatever reason. romance can be a form of abuse. romance can be traumatizing. romance can be upsetting to experience. having romance forced upon you is a form of harassment. having someone repeatedly express romantic interest in you despite you rejecting them is awful and uncomfortable and violating.

something doesn't have to be sexual in nature or intent in order to be a form of harassment. romantic harassment is a real thing. the only reason nobody talks about that is because everyone is just too attached to the idea of romance as an inherent positive to realize that it can and has been used to hurt people.