http://harvardlawreview.org/2015/02/trading-the-megaphone-for-the-gavel-in-title-ix-enforcement-2/
I want to ask a question that is about something psychological, not legal.
This article mentions how a young man attending a college was prohibited from going anywhere where a specific other college student might see him, because he looked like someone who had raped her. He was not the guy who had raped her, but he looked like him, and this was triggering for her.
Was this a psychologically good move in regards to her?
Is she destined to live out her life in fear of all persons with a certain face or body type?
Might it not be psychologically better for her to occasionally be around someone who looked that way? That way, negative emotional associations (in regards to harmless things such as that facial structure, skin color, whatever) could be replaced by neutral ones.
What do you think?
And yes, it was a very unjust thing against him, a person innocent of wrongdoing. But that's not the specific question that I'm asking here.
I want to ask a question that is about something psychological, not legal.
This article mentions how a young man attending a college was prohibited from going anywhere where a specific other college student might see him, because he looked like someone who had raped her. He was not the guy who had raped her, but he looked like him, and this was triggering for her.
Was this a psychologically good move in regards to her?
Is she destined to live out her life in fear of all persons with a certain face or body type?
Might it not be psychologically better for her to occasionally be around someone who looked that way? That way, negative emotional associations (in regards to harmless things such as that facial structure, skin color, whatever) could be replaced by neutral ones.
What do you think?
And yes, it was a very unjust thing against him, a person innocent of wrongdoing. But that's not the specific question that I'm asking here.