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rm and theferret's thoughts on this. I agree with rm's commentary on this, for sure, and how it echoes many things wrong with this male-dominant world we exist in.
However, I think there might have been more made out this specific retarded experiment then there should have been.
There are plenty of people with no concept of boundaries, who would attempt to grope others regardless of buttons that say "No" or "Yes".
There are pedophiles that go to parks and watch kids play.
There are rapists living in your neighborhood (which is true; there are literally 30 some rapists within 2 miles of my house based on those registered offenders).
Then there are lots of crazy people that harbor all sorts of nasty thoughts about the opposite sex, or sex in general, for a variety of reasons.
I don't agree with OSBP, nor making light of any events where people have been abused or transgressed upon, but this is seriously the wrong place to make a stand with so much other shit wrong with the interactions between men and women.
What I don't want to happen is that people are being vilified because the whole of women's freedoms and sexual interactions are being tossed upon the shoulders of total geekazoid at a science fiction con. One thing is for sure, he should have done this on a private scale, and not in public. That is just stupid on his part. But its no where near a battle ground, considering that no one has stepped forward about being touched without permission at that particular event under those particular set of rules.
I am all for routing the injustices, but I am not about doing it blindly, and with a decided lack of aim. We'd be no better than some hick hopped up on American pride and blaming every middle-easterner that he came across as "responsible" for 9-11.
That, and I personally don't feel like hating my gender. There's lots of good there too.
rm and theferret's thoughts on this. I agree with rm's commentary on this, for sure, and how it echoes many things wrong with this male-dominant world we exist in. However, I think there might have been more made out this specific retarded experiment then there should have been.
There are plenty of people with no concept of boundaries, who would attempt to grope others regardless of buttons that say "No" or "Yes".
There are pedophiles that go to parks and watch kids play.
There are rapists living in your neighborhood (which is true; there are literally 30 some rapists within 2 miles of my house based on those registered offenders).
Then there are lots of crazy people that harbor all sorts of nasty thoughts about the opposite sex, or sex in general, for a variety of reasons.
I don't agree with OSBP, nor making light of any events where people have been abused or transgressed upon, but this is seriously the wrong place to make a stand with so much other shit wrong with the interactions between men and women.
What I don't want to happen is that people are being vilified because the whole of women's freedoms and sexual interactions are being tossed upon the shoulders of total geekazoid at a science fiction con. One thing is for sure, he should have done this on a private scale, and not in public. That is just stupid on his part. But its no where near a battle ground, considering that no one has stepped forward about being touched without permission at that particular event under those particular set of rules.
I am all for routing the injustices, but I am not about doing it blindly, and with a decided lack of aim. We'd be no better than some hick hopped up on American pride and blaming every middle-easterner that he came across as "responsible" for 9-11.
That, and I personally don't feel like hating my gender. There's lots of good there too.
