Posts by Megan Wegan
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Also, Mate. As in Phil and John, being such "mates" in the debates.
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Lew beat me to it, but yeah, it has to be munted.
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Up Front: The Up Front Guides:…, in reply to Emma Hart,
Fuck, true. There’s even video of me doing it. Perhaps I should send it to that guy…
This would be the Town Hall where my rack was mentioned on several occasions? How 'bout we send him video of that?
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Up Front: The Up Front Guides:…, in reply to Emma Hart,
You played with your hair a lot. A woman playing with her hair is a common sign of flirtation. You can even do a google search on it. When a woman plays with her hair, she is preening. I've never had a date where a woman played with her hair as much as you did. In addition, it didn't look like you were playing with your hair out of nervousness.
Um. Dude. I play with my hair when I am bored. That's how you can tell I am bored, because I end up with crazy ringlets on one side of my head.
What a douche.
I don't understand why you apparently don't want to go out with me again. We have numerous things in common. I assume that you find me physically attractive. If you didn't find me physically attractive, then it would have been irrational for you to go out with me in the first place.
I don't know, maybe you could do a google search on it?
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Up Front: The Up Front Guides:…, in reply to Emma Hart,
Said friend and my partner had a long discussion about whether I can actually be this stupid. I am.
Yes. If I may remind you of another story that can't be told here, you've witnessed just how stupid I can be.
Which is why I can feel threatened. Because for me to realise I'm being hit on...well, it has to be kind of aggressive.
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Up Front: The Up Front Guides:…, in reply to Lucy Stewart,
I’ve just never managed to pick up on it.
I hardly ever do. It usually takes getting really drunk and vomiting on someone's shoes (true story). As Emma says, it's the Kiwi Way.
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If I try asking a woman out for coffee and acting interested, there’s a high chance she’ll feel threatened and nervous.
I have felt threatened by men hitting on me. I do love that that makes it sound like it happens all the time.
I think the problem, for me, its that I am not at all attuned to realising that dudes are hitting on me. So for it to actually hit the mark, it has to be fairly overt. Which often comes across as over-bearing and pushy. And that bothers me. And a women hitting on me? I would likely not even notice. Mostly, I just assume that people are being nice and friendly. And that flirting – well, everyone is just like me, and they flirt naturally, right?
Also…I’m not good at talking to strangers. (Anyone who has ever met me is snorting right now, but it’s _true_, I swear.) So a dude approaching me on the street – or a woman for that matter – I’m automatically looking for an ulterior motive. Because s/ he couldn’t possibly just think I’m cute.
ETA: Also, I've dealt with enough street harassment, of both the "hey baby", and the "hey, fat bitch" variety, I'm wary of anyone talking to me on the street.
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Up Front: What if We Held an Election…, in reply to Bart Janssen,
If it wasn’t so unsubtle I’d be voting for that as Emma’s next ink.
Yeah, cos that's the problem. (the unsubtlety, I mean)
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Capture: Colour is the new black, in reply to Joe Wylie,
I have that photo from several angles (it was one time I went in the water in 7 days on Kiribati, I wanted to remember it), but the stump is my favourite one.
This is more of a representation of what Kiribati beaches look like.
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You want white sand and blue sea? OK.
