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My view - definitely not harassment (large asymmetrical power in my favor, plus she could have reasonably deduced from my classroom persona that it wasn't the sort of thing I was going to find unnerving, etc).
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Not morally wrong for the same reason. (The complication here is I suspected at the time that it was a dare or forfeit or something like that. If so, it violates the Kantian imperative not to treat people merely as a means to an end.)
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Inappropriate. Yes, if it hadn't happened after my last lesson teaching in that particular place (which I didn't mention). But only mildly so in this particular circumstance.
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An interesting issue here, of course, is whether the moral intuition would have been different if I were a woman, and the student a lad. It would likely change the power dynamic, which makes for a different moral calculus.
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Plus, you can't divorce this sort of thing from the broader context of the way men and women are viewed, treated, etc. Hitting on a man (if you're a woman) isn't necessarily the same sort of thing as hitting on a woman (if you're a man).
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And in case anybody wants to know what happened... nothing. She handed me the note while I was talking to another student, and rushed off. I didn't respond & never saw her again. Sorry!
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