This is the part of the statute in Illinois, my home state, for stalking:720 ILCS 5/12-7.3. Stalking. (2011)(a) A person commits stalking when he or she knowingly engages in a course of conduct directed at a specific person, and he or she knows or should know that this course of conduct would cause a reasonable person to:
(1) fear for his or her safety or the safety of a third person; or
(2) suffer other emotional distress.
I copied this to try to contribute toward combating the inaccurate depiction of the story arc with Bernice as “stalking.” Stalking means putting someone, intentionally, in fear of their safety, and by definition the stalked person would need to be aware that they are being stalked. This is clearly not what is happening here. We have an emotionally repressed romantic young woman, who is dying to know about this mysterious man, and by the way, if she was not so romantically fascinated with him, she still has a duty as a RA to investigate why he, is apparently trespassing in the dormitory, who is at the same time hilariously trying to find out how to contact him. He has no idea she is so fascinated, and he clearly is not in any fear. I know some people may have a hard time understanding this, but ironically she has a duty to try to find out who he is, but she is under the influence of his romantic influence, which if we know the character, means she is attracted to him like a moth to flame. And there is the angle of TIffany being the one with the knowledge, but also the barrier to that knowledge. Now, and again, I don’t mean to be confusing, but that is the way my mind works, given what I used to do for a living, she really does not have a personal legal right to his phone number, and if Mooney U. is a state school, she probably does not have a constitutional right as well, but just as accusing Bernice of stalking , that is carrying the story way out-of-bounds. Bernice is not a stalker.
This is the part of the statute in Illinois, my home state, for stalking:720 ILCS 5/12-7.3. Stalking. (2011)(a) A person commits stalking when he or she knowingly engages in a course of conduct directed at a specific person, and he or she knows or should know that this course of conduct would cause a reasonable person to:
(1) fear for his or her safety or the safety of a third person; or
(2) suffer other emotional distress.
I copied this to try to contribute toward combating the inaccurate depiction of the story arc with Bernice as “stalking.” Stalking means putting someone, intentionally, in fear of their safety, and by definition the stalked person would need to be aware that they are being stalked. This is clearly not what is happening here. We have an emotionally repressed romantic young woman, who is dying to know about this mysterious man, and by the way, if she was not so romantically fascinated with him, she still has a duty as a RA to investigate why he, is apparently trespassing in the dormitory, who is at the same time hilariously trying to find out how to contact him. He has no idea she is so fascinated, and he clearly is not in any fear. I know some people may have a hard time understanding this, but ironically she has a duty to try to find out who he is, but she is under the influence of his romantic influence, which if we know the character, means she is attracted to him like a moth to flame. And there is the angle of TIffany being the one with the knowledge, but also the barrier to that knowledge. Now, and again, I don’t mean to be confusing, but that is the way my mind works, given what I used to do for a living, she really does not have a personal legal right to his phone number, and if Mooney U. is a state school, she probably does not have a constitutional right as well, but just as accusing Bernice of stalking , that is carrying the story way out-of-bounds. Bernice is not a stalker.