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> Asking them five times is almost certainly harassment. Yet this behavior is romanticised is popular culture, and has been from the dawn of time up to and inc
by semi-extrinsic 11y ago
> Asking them five times is almost certainly harassment.
Yet this behavior is romanticised is popular culture, and has been from the dawn of time up to and including the present: Oddyseus and Helen of Troy, Shakespeare's "The taming of the shrew", tons of Fred Astaire movies, as well as modern movies like "Ghost", "Life is beautiful", "Chasing Amy", TV shows like "Sex and the city"... I could go on. Lucikly I don't need to, since TVtropes has a site dedicated to this character (the "dogged nice guy"). And note that many of these are targeted at, and very popular with, women (who are usually at the receiving end of the initially-unwarranted attention). Apparently this behaviour can walk a thin line between illegal and very very romantic.
- drunken-serval 11y agoThank you for not linking to TV Tropes. I've lost a great many hours to that site. :)
- semi-extrinsic 11y agoYes, it was a deliberate non-link ;) (Oblig. http://xkcd.com/609 http://xkcd.com/609 )
- ElComradio 11y agoIt goes both ways. Numerous female pop stars, and in entertainment in general, angling and fishing to steal away the guy from his relationship because she KNOWS they are meant to be together... She doesn't hear "No thanks" and go away.
- GFK_of_xmaspast 11y agoAs I recall it, Odysseus was just one of many suitors of Helen and in fact had to be strong-armed into joining the Greek invasion. Might you perhaps be thinking of Penelope? (Also "The Taming of the Shrew" is firmly in the "oh fuck no" category of 21st century society)