Welcome to the Harlan Ellison Memorial Personal Boundaries Club

[james_davis_nicoll]

Sad male fan capitalizes on way to be even more creepy to female fans.

As seen on a wide variety of LJ accounts. I have to say there's a clear consensus on the idea of treating women's bodies as public commons and it's not heading in the direction of commutarian touching. Who could have predicted that outcome?

Comments

[ms-daisy-cutter.livejournal.com]

I'm going to guess that you didn't mean it this way, but your comment reeks of, "But men are oppressed tooooo!!"

Like ambitious_wench said, the invasions of your personal space as a man are less likely to take the form of slapping, pinching, groping, or comments from total strangers that they'd like to fuck you. Ergo, they don't take the form of someone communicating to you that you exist solely for their pleasure and amusement — and, oftentimes, your distress adds to said pleasure and amusement, because they're "getting one over on you."

Men seem not to grasp that this shit happens to us all the time.

[cbpotts.livejournal.com]

Or that there's always violence on the table: you go along, or you're just setting up a reason to be punished for it later.

I've yet to meet the man who thinks blowing off a girl who's interested in him carries with it a very real risk of physical harm. I've yet to meet the woman over the age of 15 who doesn't know that she's dancing with danger every time she says no.

[ms-daisy-cutter.livejournal.com]

That too, and thanks for reminding me. Especially since bringing up the spectre of male violence might be helpful the next time I have to reply to this choad (http://misia.livejournal.com/1055120.html?thread=16731024#t16731024) who's whining about how unfaaaaiiiiirrrr it is that bitches can, you know, choose to date the "hot mailroom guy" over the "ugly cubical [sic] guy."