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WCDT 14-18 February 2011 (1861-1865)
est:
The point of going to a bar is often just to hang out with friends and probably drink a little/lot. Bars aren't just pickup joints.
And as for the "look at me/don't look at me" business, it's really simple. She wants the people she's interested in to look at her, and the people she isn't interested in to leave her alone. If you pay attention for about 10 seconds you'll find out pretty quick-smart which category you fall into and if you have any respect for her you'll modify all your future interactions with her accordingly. Just because she's walking around "in public" doesn't mean she's giving you explicit permission to ogle her assets.
pwhodges:
No, the dressing thing isn't entirely simple. When you look at the pressure that primary school kids are put under to conform to this warped convention long before it should matter to them, you can see cause to worry.
Odal:
--- Quote from: DSL on 14 Feb 2011, 00:53 ---Also about the poll: Pintsize is a girl? What'd the Pugnacious Peach DO to him with/since that last toss?
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Pintsize is anything you want it to be.
est:
The root cause is pretty complex yes, but I was trying to answer the "if she's not there to be looked at, why is she there?" question. It doesn't take telepathy to know whether or not you are her target market.
westrim:
--- Quote from: Carl-E on 14 Feb 2011, 01:09 ---That one took me a minute too, even though in these parts it's called DUI (driving under the influence) rather than DWI (driving while intoxicated).
As for dealing with it, we are. In our usual hyperbolic way.
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Hyperbole? Why, that never happens here!
--- Quote from: est on 14 Feb 2011, 01:12 ---The point of going to a bar is often just to hang out with friends and probably drink a little/lot. Bars aren't just pickup joints.
And as for the "look at me/don't look at me" business, it's really simple. She wants the people she's interested in to look at her, and the people she isn't interested in to leave her alone. If you pay attention for about 10 seconds you'll find out pretty quick-smart which category you fall into and if you have any respect for her you'll modify all your future interactions with her accordingly. Just because she's walking around "in public" doesn't mean she's giving you explicit permission to ogle her assets.
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It's public. Permission doesn't come into it - simply by being visible, anyone has permission to view you, and you don't get to commit a felony to express your displeasure with being viewed, nor choose in general. That's been settled by several tussles about what government/private surveillance can and can't do, and whether or not its okay to take someones' camera because you don't like them shooting you. Or, in this case, ogle a bottom that has been squeezed into formfitting jeans, not average loose ones - though I hear from me female compatriots that it's hard for them to find regular jeans anymore.
EDIT: Eh, I just saw Hodges on # 52. I will admit to my knowledge of alcohol imbibing culture being limited (that being the trouble here, I see bars (not the ones in restaurants, the exclusively bar ones) as dank dirty places, and alcohol as just another drug to addle the mind - to me, going to a bar is an immature act, so I expect immature things of those who go to them. That's just the way I pre judge it.), but to my knowledge the major reasons for a single person to go to a bar all alone are to unwind after work, to get drunk, or to hook up. As to the second part, that would take 30 minutes and a few paragraphs to respond to, which I don't have right now.
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