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Hm. Some of the knee-jerk reaction does look a lot like rules-lawyering. Like, but what if I did something with superficial similarity to the issue being discussed, would that be harassment, even if all the salient features of the situation were different? It's amazingly hard to tell if it's sincere; it's certainly very prevalent. I mean, rules-lawyering is a bit of a pejorative term, maybe it's people who really can't tell the difference between a creepy guy "inviting" (with a leer) a vulnerable woman back to his room, and simply asking your friend to come and hang out with you at a conference, so they want some explicit discussion of what the differences are.

Harassment accusations in a school context are really tough, whether they're true or made-up, and it's not surprising that teachers fear accusations, without reference to how rare they may be. I suppose with a teacher and underage students, there's not really an issue of a socially clueless person trying to be friendly and having it misinterpreted, because there's never going to be a good reason for a teacher to make overtures towards their student.