# Woman blogs about sexual assault at tech conference

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**Created:** [November 7, 2010, 3:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/woman-blogs-about-sexual-assault-at-tech-conference/559766 "2010-11-07T03:56:54Z")\
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**Post date:** [November 8, 2010, 3:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/woman-blogs-about-sexual-assault-at-tech-conference/559766/63 "2010-11-08T03:59:12Z")

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I apologize for not having read every single post in this thread, but I did look for quotes from the woman’s blog, and I didn’t see where anyone had quoted what I’m about to.

And I really think it’s key to why she should not have posted this on her blog, and why the gentleman in question is unlikely to be convicted of anything.

> [@nerdchic](#):
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> He grabbed me, pulled me in to him, and kissed me. I tried to push him off, and told him I wasn’t interested (I may have been less eloquent, but I don’t think I was less clear). He responded by jamming his hand into my underwear and fumbling.

From her description of the evenings events prior to her trip to the restroom, it seems likely that she was inebriated. She admits (the blue part) that she may _not_ have been perfectly clear that she was rejecting his advances, but she _thinks_ she was clear. She doesn’t know she was clear. That leaves room for doubt, both in my reading, and perhaps, in the mind of this man.

I don’t want to be appearing to excuse the crude actions, if they did indeed occur, (I can’t imagine this is a very successful pick-up tactic), but what seems clear to me is that the woman has imperfect knowledge, due to alcohol consumption, of _exactly_ what she said and the manner in which she said it, by her own admission. Therefore, to have posted something so publicly calling the man out as having committed a criminal act, was a stupid, stupid thing to do.

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