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[doctorcaligari]

I can't remember if I've posted about this before. (If I have, apologies for repeating the story, but I was reminded of it today seeing some stuff about rape culture on the internet, and things like the Great Elevator Dispute that briefly caused the atheist community on the Internet to explode into annoying debates about "but how is a guy SUPPOSED

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[innocent_man]

I cannot remember a time that I've catcalled a woman, and I've certainly never done anything on the order of telling a random woman I wanted to do anything sexual with her (ass-fucking or otherwise). I don't know what the hell is wrong my gender.

[doctorcaligari]

Well, to be fair, as far as I can tell, MOST guys never pull this crap. (And I guess at least one of them shares my bafflement at what the hell those other guys are thinking! :-)

[vincentdamour]

In my experience the ass-holes who make such comments to strange women are usually rather unattractive and thus compensate for their lack of abilities by making an obvious farty comment that will create some sort of response ... even if it doesn't lead to scoring.

By the way, what is "heterosexual interest"? Is there a convention out there that homosexual interest somehow differs from the one heterosexuals may experience, that I'm not aware of?

Or is it just another way of saying "men behaving badly"?

Hmmm ... this brings back fond memories of a sad forumite calling the purple poet "a misogynist ass-hole" in a pathetic attempt to impress the birds. ;o)

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[doctorcaligari]

I'm using the phrase "heterosexual interest" as shorthand for "a man expressing sexual/romantic interest in a woman" (or vice versa, though in this particular post it's the former I'm discussing). No qualitative difference between heterosexual and homosexual (or any other -sexual) interest is theorized or propounded. :-)

[vincentdamour]

Okay. It's just that I have had men come on to me in a very unpleasant way, and I have had women come on to me in equally unpleasant ways (though less scary).

I lived in SOMA in San Francisco for two months 14 years ago and that area was quite dodgy after night fall. ;o)

However, I do find that my own gender rarely gives me any reason to beam with pride, as they often let their natural urges take over what little social skills they had when coming on to women. And it's often the case that these "hyenas" socially support each other in these sort of behaviour ... and sometimes encourage each other ... why we see these disgusting rapes of women by a pack of "men".

I don't understand what goes on in their brains and I probably am not supposed to. I tend to explain it by "two many men in the world". Their like the sad male lions not winning the flock and instead having to roam the planes for carcasses.

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