Your definition of "predator" is woefully limited.
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Replying to @gorskon @FinchLydia and
We all agree that Weinstein-like quid pro quo coercion is illegal. But if you're talking about seduction, manipulation...? I think we have to leave that alone.
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Replying to @iwrotesham @gorskon and
'manipulation' is ok to get someone to sleep with you? ok. I hope i never attend a conference with people with that opinion. I tough the world had moved on but maybe not
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Replying to @Stick_Pins @FinchLydia and
All salesmanship is manipulation. And salesmanship is ubiquitous in American society. How do we draw a line between persuasion that you consider acceptable and persuasion that crosses a line? I don't think these things can be litigated. Honestly.
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Replying to @iwrotesham @gorskon and
im not american and if you need persuasion or salesmanship to get someone to sleep with you, they should probably run a mile and you need to work on yourself.
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Replying to @Stick_Pins @FinchLydia and
I am American and I gave up that salesmanship with my personal examination of awful behaviors I admitted to at the beginning of this thread.
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Replying to @maxkatz515 @FinchLydia and
We're trying to sell each other right now. And you're doing a better job of it than I am, based on what peers think. We all sell. All the time.
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Replying to @iwrotesham @FinchLydia and
I'm not trying to sell you sexuality right now. Those goalposts just can't stay still I guess.
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Replying to @maxkatz515 @FinchLydia and
For a bunch of skeptics you sure are close-minded. OK you win. People are getting unduly nasty and ad hominem. The last refuge of the weak mind. Enjoy your intellectually cloistered lives (not directed at @skepticpedi or
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Replying to @iwrotesham @maxkatz515 and
Ad hominem. You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means. Ditto close-minded. Of course, flouncing off like that and dismissing reasonable arguments as "close-minded" is a lake and obvious ploy when you're losing.
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Lame and obvious ploy. Smartphone keyboard strikes again. 
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