reasonable victim
- Criteria used in courts to assess a sexual harassment allegation, where the claim can move forward only if another person of the same sex, in similar circumstances, would have felt harassed by the accused's actions
- The court employed the reasonable victim perspective to gauge the severity of the sexual harassment claim.
- The conduct is evaluated from the viewpoint of a reasonable victim to determine if it constitutes harassment.
- To validate the claim, the judge considered whether a reasonable victim would feel harassed by the same behavior.
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