And while there is no doubt that victims of actual sexual assault or truly debilitating harassment deserve the utmost protection, sweeping verbalexpression into the same fold conflates two very different phenomena.
Verbal and written expression is often taken for granted, as though it magically appeared at some point in time with an already vast vocabulary and set syntax.
In previous OCR letters, it has been acknowledged that a certain tension exists between punishing verbal sexual harassment and protecting free expression.