Quote:
Originally Posted by Fugee
Some time back we discussed whether the guy hitting on the conference speaker in the elevator was creepy or not.
This is similar but broader.
Bicycle Man is so far out there in scary-probably-psychotic land that he takes away from the writer's main point which seems to be that she hates when she's sitting on the train reading a book and guys hit on her. |
It makes no point that hasn't been made elsewhere, and better. If the idea is that there is a male privilege to be in an enclosed space with strangers without expecting a potential violent interaction with lasting consequences, she is wrong. If the idea is that there is a male privilege to move about in the world without much or any consciousness of an ever present potential for
sexual violence, she is right, but wrong that "most men, even good caring men, have no clue" of this. And if the idea is that this anecdote illustrates any of those points any more successfully than a woman simply saying "I live a life of eternal vigilance about the security of my life and sexuality and you don't," she is again wrong. A guy that needs an outlier anecdote to understand that is too clueless to waste time on anyway.
Threaded Mode