Do something worthwhile instead
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threeplusfireI suppose I should be relieved that I feel I'm finally validated in my inexplicable distaste for this LJ user. I see him referenced in other people's journals often, and sure, even some of it has been interesting. But I've never been able to shake my dislike. This sort of nonsense masquerading as some revolutionary social movement is fucking annoying. It's goddamned lazy is what it is, honestly.
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For a moment, everything that was awkward about high school would fade away and you could just say what was on your mind. It was as though parts of me were being healed whenever I did it, and I touched at least fifteen sets of boobs at Penguicon. It never got old, surprisingly.
Whiskey. Tango. Foxtrot. If you are a thirty nine year old fanboy who is STILL WOUNDED BY HIGH SCHOOL, I suggest some psychotherapy instead of groping breasts at a convention. Seriously.
If you're interested in revolutionizing society, I suggest than instead of trying to see how many breasts you can touch, to turn your efforts to some genuine activism. Campaign for anti-discrimination laws, and equal marriage rights. Support open and honest sex education. Work to repeal sodomy laws. Work for education, engagement, tolerance, and discussion to improve your community.
Work towards a real world where sex isn't seen as shameful. But for the love of all that's good and green in this world, don't act like running around groping each other at a con is going to ignite some paradisaical explosion of free love and a change in attitudes about sex.
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I would like to share with you a respose, open source male assholes, which expresses much of how I feel with incredible eloquence.
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The ferrett wonders why a man's asking, out of the blue, if he can feel up a woman's boobs shouldn't be understood as "a way of saying that I may not yet know your mind, but your body is beautiful." But this is simply to ask why he shouldn't be able to continue to treat women as they have always been treated. Body first, sexual delectation to men first, as object first, "mind" - i.e. as a human subject - very firmly second. It's simply to intensify the condition of patriarchal gender relations that already existed - or, to put it more simply, it's a frustrated man's fantasy of putting women back in their place.
I quote:
For a moment, everything that was awkward about high school would fade away and you could just say what was on your mind. It was as though parts of me were being healed whenever I did it, and I touched at least fifteen sets of boobs at Penguicon. It never got old, surprisingly.
Whiskey. Tango. Foxtrot. If you are a thirty nine year old fanboy who is STILL WOUNDED BY HIGH SCHOOL, I suggest some psychotherapy instead of groping breasts at a convention. Seriously.
If you're interested in revolutionizing society, I suggest than instead of trying to see how many breasts you can touch, to turn your efforts to some genuine activism. Campaign for anti-discrimination laws, and equal marriage rights. Support open and honest sex education. Work to repeal sodomy laws. Work for education, engagement, tolerance, and discussion to improve your community.
Work towards a real world where sex isn't seen as shameful. But for the love of all that's good and green in this world, don't act like running around groping each other at a con is going to ignite some paradisaical explosion of free love and a change in attitudes about sex.
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I would like to share with you a respose, open source male assholes, which expresses much of how I feel with incredible eloquence.
Quote:
The ferrett wonders why a man's asking, out of the blue, if he can feel up a woman's boobs shouldn't be understood as "a way of saying that I may not yet know your mind, but your body is beautiful." But this is simply to ask why he shouldn't be able to continue to treat women as they have always been treated. Body first, sexual delectation to men first, as object first, "mind" - i.e. as a human subject - very firmly second. It's simply to intensify the condition of patriarchal gender relations that already existed - or, to put it more simply, it's a frustrated man's fantasy of putting women back in their place.
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Date: 2008-04-22 07:47 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-04-22 08:18 pm (UTC)No, I do not want strangers to touch me, anywhere, especially not my boobs. And that is not because I am ashamed about my sexuality. It is because my body is not a public object. It belongs to me. I CHOOSE WHO TOUCHES MY BOOBS.
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Date: 2008-04-23 02:02 am (UTC)May I please execute him , for the sake of us males of the species that are not complate assholes?
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Date: 2008-04-23 06:33 am (UTC)Delusional doesn't even come close to describing him. Don't even want to try. Have no words, paint would strip from walls.
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Date: 2008-04-23 02:50 pm (UTC)Whisky Tango Foxtrot, no kidding. I had not heard of The Ferret nor of groping at cons before this post. I would be inclined to violence if a stranger asked to grope me. I know I would engage in violence if someone did grope me -- years of martial arts have made that reflexive. (Luckily for the hypothetical groper, I am not very good at martial arts despite all the study.)
Um, yeah. My boobs are not for you, unless you are my husband or my baby, and that should go without saying. Would these men tolerate other men coming up and asking if they could fondle their genitals?