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Everytime something like this comes up a portion of men will respond with either "It's a public place, people are free to look at and talk to strangers, etc" or
by sanoli 11y ago
Everytime something like this comes up a portion of men will respond with either "It's a public place, people are free to look at and talk to strangers, etc" or "Men are like that, deal with it." Oh, and also the "It's no big deal" rendered in so many ways. Here's a mental exercize for all the men who think this way:
You have to go to a conference, and the whole place is filled with big, muscular, thug-looking men. You walk around and you notice they're all staring at you. Every now and then when you stop, one or two will approach you, and they will do it with that look in their eye. You know, like you're their prison meat. So the huge thug comes up to you and starts some small talk, asks your name, what you do, if you're there by yourself, and then, you know, he says you have a nice little ass, and wouldn't you want to go there in the back with him. He's just talking, you know, didn't touch you or anything. Plus, it's a public place. You're just unconfortable because he is a huge guy, looks like a mma fighter, but, hey, he's just talking to you, saying he wants to have sex with you. No big deal, right? You just deal with him and all the others and won't make a fuss about this behavior, and I'm pretty sure you'll attend all future conferences with a great mood and won't think there's anything wrong with all the thugs wanting to have sex with you.
Thugs are like that. No big deal.
- zxcvcxz 11y agoSo all men are prison rapists? Sorry but I don't buy it. Especially not tech nerds. Ever been to an automotive convention? They typically have scantily dressed women posing next to cars. Am I to believe that a bunch of pasty nerds are more intimidating than mechanics? Are you sure you just aren't stereotyping men and that perhaps you may be a little sexist against men?
- sanoli 11y agoWhere did I say they were prison rapists?? Or violent of any kind by the way?!? They just talked, that's all. But if you thought the place I described was so vile that you already labeled the men you imagined as 'prison rapists', then the exercize worked and I see you woldn't attend this conference anymore, though nobody even touched a finger on you. You just felt very unconfortable at the suggestions of sex by intimidating, yet so far harmless people. P.S. I'm male.
- GFK_of_xmaspast 11y agoWhy do you think it's "mechanics" going to auto shows?
- dominotw 11y agoI heard this exact same thing on Bill Burr podcast.
- vonklaus 11y agoGod, I am sick of this sterotype, everywhere I seem to turn people fall back on that classic tech sterotype about everyone being a thuggish 6'4" homosexual MMA fighter with an attitude like Pepé Le Pew.