textual harassment

textual harassment

slang The act of harassing someone via text message. The phrase is a pun on "sexual harassment." Textual harassment should always be taken seriously as a form of harassment or stalking.
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
See also:
  • textually harass
  • the Weinstein effect
  • #MeToo
  • me too
  • metoo
  • goon
  • goon squad
  • sport with
  • sport with (someone or something)
  • give someone the business
References in periodicals archive
India is still suffering from the textual harassment in an educational system by including colonial narration of Indian history that divided Indian society on communal lines.
Inglorious Empire: What the British Did to India
There-aside from the textual harassment, the poor retirees in Baguio must go face the threat of trouble supposedly from the Office of the President.
Textual harassment
Kacey Kirkland, a victim services specialist with the police department in suburban Fairfax County, Va., has seen textual harassment in almost every form: Threats.
The silent weapon in dating violence: Texting
Facebook, Twitter, blogs and other social media tools all pose new ways to expose confidential information (yours and your customers'), as well as new forms of employee-related claims, such as "textual harassment." Confirm that your company's policies address how and when your staff can use these resources, especially on company time and on company-provided laptops, PDAs and cell phones.
Avoiding Doc Ock
As a result, new issues like forced sexting, textual harassment and cyberbullyiing have emerged, which now affect a majority of young people in the U.S."
Survey: Half of teens are sexting and digital dating abuse victims
The aim was also to put an end to 'prank' calls and 'textual harassment' after complaints that people were being bombarded with text messages from unknown sources.
Mobiles alert
Textual harassment Oppression by an excess of e-mails and/or text messages.Marzipan layerTalented people in a company just below board level.Oppression by an excess of e-mails and/or text messages.
Just envision it... you too can join the thought shower and understand that choad-monger
Highly-rated Cardiff defender Danny Gabbidon revealed that City players have subjected Kavanagh to some textual harassment.
Football: KAV HAS A CARD UP HIS SLEEVE; CARDIFF v WIGAN, TODAY, 3PM I'll thwart text maniacs
"Textual Harassment: Teaching Drama to Interrogate Meaning." Theater Topics 3 (1993): 159-66.
Enacting difference: Marita Bonner's 'Purple Flower' and the ambiguities of race
This paper introduces the character of Moneypenny, following the changes to her ideological configuration from 1962 to 1995, and concludes with an exploration of textual harassment and seduction.
Britain's last line of defence: Miss Moneypenny and the desperations of filmic feminism
Her final chapter, "Textual Harassment," views the final books of the work as continued autobiography in which Augustine somewhat fails to pleasure his readers.
Desire and Delight: A New Reading of Augustine's 'Confessions.'(Brief Article)
The aim is also to put an end to 'prank' calls and 'textual harassment' following complaints that people were being bombarded with text messages from unknown sources.
New deadline for phone users
Pest phone calls on land lines have fallen "textual harassment" on mobiles doubled in the past year.
Terror by text mail
PRANK calling and "textual harassment" are also being targeted in a security crackdown on mobile phone subscriptions.
TRA to pull plug on prank callers