bookitty, do us all a favor and look up the definition of "straw man". Also look up "false dichotomy" as EG could have yelled or been verbally abusive. IOW, there were other options besides rape.
I don't think we need to pass out gold stars to people who take no for an answer. However, it's an important thing that we need to inculcate in men as some DON'T take no for an answer.
And? You state a premise with no conclusion. What do we infer from this? That some actions like asking a woman out at 4am are always and only bad?
Go back to the movie theater talkers. The person turns around and tells the talkers to hush. They do. So now, if we go with your view, those talkers are have done nothing wrong while in the theater. That they stopped is enough to absolve them. It doesn't matter if they do it again in a different theater, as long as they stop when asked.
Talking in a movie theater isn't a huge deal, just a general annoyance. It is one of those social flaws that makes people uncomfortable. In order to get it to stop, the person who is being annoyed must take action.
We don't protect the rights of people to talk in theaters because they will annoy people that have done nothing wrong, because whatever benefit comes from talking in a movie theater is not as important as the harm it causes, even if that harm is just being annoyed.
As much as we all like to think we're independent, we live in large groups and we impact the lives of strangers every time we leave the house. In order to make this larger group work together smoothly, we have developed rules and we have developed a very vague system of interaction that we call manners, politeness or courtesy. This system varies by location (Compare a line in China to a queue in the UK) but it has some constants.
Courtesy protects us from other people's unthinking selfish behavior and it allows us to go about our day with the minimum of friction. As society changes, courtesy changes with it. Five years ago, it was not uncommon to see a group of people at a restaurant who were using their phones. These days it is considered impolite and there is less of it.
Smaller groups also have their own patterns and their own boundaries. A football team that boisterously insults each other doesn't use the same words to strangers in the supermarket. The freethought, atheists, and skeptical communities have also developed their own patterns and habits. As the movement has grown both IRL and online, these habits and patterns are no longer adequate to insure smooth interaction. There are problems, Watson pointed out one of these problems.
