Brought on by essay avoidance and rage. This is...baffling.
"This should be a better world," a friend of mine said. "A more honest one, where sex isn't shameful or degrading. I wish this was the kind of world where say, 'Wow, I'd like to touch your breasts,' and people would understand that it's not a way of reducing you to a set of nipples and ignoring the rest of you, but rather a way of saying that I may ( Read more... )
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I wasn't bothered by it. So a group of folks at a con put on buttons to sign up for a gropage social experiment. It doesn't bother me anymore than them deciding to cosplay, paint each other funny colors, or have group sex.
If someone I didn't know came up to me and asked to touch my breasts, I'd think they were weird, but I wouldn't feel threatened or objectified. More of a bemused WTF. If someone I knew asked, outside of a work environment, I'd probably say yes. No skin off my nose.
Of course, I am completely blind to peer pressure, socially odd, and more butch than 2/3 of the human beings with penises. So I might be missing something really obvious to everyone else.
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I have a fairly large defensible space around me, and am pretty shy, which makes a difference. My problem with what this guy is blogging about is the kind of skeevy dynamics of it- like, what if you have a green badge and no one asks? Does that give you unworthy breasts? It is completely opt in, and I respect that, and am pretty tickled that you'd say yes *g*, and it's pretty cool that you feel comfortable enough with yourself and other people to do that. This, I dig.
I guess the atmosphere of near-religious fervour he puts across about being able to grop 15 pairs of breasts (he didn't say women *g*) and the beautiful moment vibe of this huge epiphany he has boils down for me to a socially maladjusted basement dweller wanting to cop a feel.
Thank you for your opinion (and hey, no crash helmet necessary. You're cool)
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*sigh* This project was conceived by men, right?
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