Larry Correia hits it out of the park again.

[agilebrit]

I'ma just leave this here: The Legalities of Shooting People.

ETA: Okay, I realize that everyone is having a blast smacking Clamps around like a cheap pinata, but I'm going to bow out at this point in time. I have a Sunday deadline I'm desperately trying to hit on a story that's making me crazy

Comments

[yamamanama]

You're hung up over imperfections that are only noticeable in a mirror. Ones that presumably Amy and Christina and the chimera of a woman I saw on the Red Line a few years ago and a woman from a photograph somewhere don't have.

And I can't possibly go back and change the picture once I scanned it.

Digital Secretary Sophie looks bad and I don't have to mirror it or look at it upside down.

[cutelildrow]

... So, his answer is "No he hasn't laid hands on a woman with her consent and invitation."

And rather tellingly, his example is 'a woman on a subway', which is not what you asked. The fact that his immediate idea is that 'touching a woman' is sexual harassment is rather illuminating of how he thinks of interaction with a woman at all.

Creepy. And this is the guy who has gone out of his way to paint any interaction I have with a man as purely sexual. No wonder he as Sunshine accuses me of 'spreading my legs for another man' - he has no concept of nonsexual interaction with a woman, and he thinks living with a woman gives a man the right to sexual access to the woman as a default.. He has just revealed he has NO direct contact with a woman beyond looking at her in a subway, or at best, neutral interaction in a public space. None in private.

[jordan179]

Based on his claims about how he was inspired to create Marciana and how he gets commissions, an awful lot of his interactions with real live women seem to take place on the subway.

[mauser]

Basically because on a subway car, a woman is effectively trapped with him.

I bet they get very nervous if he's the only other person on an elevator.

[cutelildrow]

So hang on, you mean effectively a woman has no choice but to endure his attentions because they're effectively trapped on a subway car with him?

That's seriously unnerving and disturbing.

[yamamanama]

It was 1 paid commission, about 50-75 "Hey, can you draw me?" and about 500 other portraits.

You wouldn't know this, but it's a good place to meet people.

[mauser]

Or rather, force people to interact when you because they have no escape route.

But I guess asking you to draw will at least take SOME of your rancid attention off of them.

[yamamanama]

And what about concerts, which are set in open spaces?

[mauser]

What about them? You were talking about how Subways were a great place to meet people. Now you're changing the subject, AGAIN.

[yamamanama]

I also met/sketched people there.

[mauser]

And I'm sure that virtually none of them ever sought you out again afterward.

[yamamanama]

We spent the rest of the summer going to concerts together.

I met one of them at the MFA and then we went to see The Consul a few weeks later.

[mauser]

And you've been stalking them ever since, "Coincidentally" showing up wherever they go.

[yamamanama]

She invited me to the Consul. I wouldn't have known about it if she didn't tell me.

[mauser]

Friend of the band, I bet. And you paid for your ticket. Cha-ching.

[yamamanama]

Consul's an opera, not a band. And it was free.