Brought on by essay avoidance and rage. This is...baffling.

[llassah]

"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

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[akite]

If some stranger, man or woman, came up to me and asked if they could feel my breast, I'd say, "Hell, no! Get the fuck away from me!" Depending on how I felt on that particular day, they might get kicked where it really hurts.

[llassah]

You and me both. Regardless of how good looking/nice the person seemed, they would be looked at, sneered at, shouted at and possibly kicked. It's just...boggling.

[magic_at_mungos]

Oh dear me it's getting pretentiously wanky in there.

[llassah]

hoo boy yes. I'm not sure why he's so surprised at the responses he's getting

[magic_at_mungos]

I mean it's the sort of thing that gropage is all right with certain people at certain times but just randomly going up to people and asking if I could touch their boobs or ask if mine were good enough to grope? Bitch please.

[hieronymousmosh]

"My breasts," they asked shyly, having heard about the project. "Are they... are they good enough to be touched?"

And what porno was this from? That "shyly" in there is really creeping me out.

Given how Not Down I am with my anything being touched by strangers, I'd be very uncomfortable in open source boob-groping land - especially with the added guilt-factor of not being "open-minded" enough to join in. Yeesh.

WAY TO EAT HALF MY COMMENT, LJ.

[llassah]

That shyly is truly truly horrible. It...infantilises the whole thing.

guilt tripping groping. Not cool.

[_unhurt_]

By the end of the evening, women were coming up to us. "My breasts," they asked shyly, having heard about the project. "Are they... are they good enough to be touched?" And lo, we showed them how beautiful their bodies were without turning it into something tawdry.

oh my fucking CHRIST. on a MOTORCYCLE. a STEAM POWERED MOTORCYCLE WITH FUCKING KNOBS ON.

because, of course! what it is aaaaaaaall about is Letting The Men Judge. because they are the Great Arbiters Of All and women's bodies are beautiful or not ONLY if they fucking APPPROVE.

*pants*

ok. someone might have said this already, but i had to get it out.

so, hey now, lets have an open source testicles day. any guy who doesn't want some random other guy grabbing his nads? well, he's just fucking uptight, no?

ok. have to go hit things now.

[llassah]

steampunk jesus ftw!

women just don't know when they're beautiful, apparently.

(I want callum to open source hugh's testicles.)

I want to actually hit him. That doesn't happen very often *seethes*

[_unhurt_]

i wrote the below before you replied. i was just so annoyed i, um. forgot to hit post...

and god(s) help me, i am commenting over there now...

[llassah]

hehe, he's...um disabled and deleted/whatevered all comments over there, including an apology. Huh. I went over to look at what you'd written all special like

[etcetera_cat]

Ew. Ewewewewewew

*distressed little flappy dance at the whole thing, but particularly that 'shyly' which is just--just--EW*

[llassah]

goodness, yes- it's just...like they were caterpillars, waiting to be made beautiful by being groped out of their chrysalis.ewwwww