Posts by Rich Lock
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Ah, I suck at this Internet thing. Is this thing even on? Where do you speak into? Hello?
I think that's the analogue you're going for
Gio, just upgrade to Web 2.0
I've heard it runs on digitals.
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Rich. Do you see that it is not my intent to connect the dress message as an excuse to "attack" women, or men? I never said that.
Ian: yes, totally. I didn't think I said anything that suggested that you did, though?
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At the simplist my proposition is that the clothes we wear, the manners you show, the way you speak do send signals to those you meet. I am baffled as to why this causes angry response.
But the way some men are interpreting the signal is: 'I am available. Please crudely proposition me'.
Whereas it's a little odd that most women don't actually think that's the signal they sent.
So whose behaviour needs addressing?
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guys often can't really comprehend the experience
A few years ago I started noticing certain shared behavioural traits in (mostly) young women, out and about in public spaces on weekend evenings (fri-sat), usually by themselves, usually in transit from A to B. I'm not talking late-late, more like 6-7 in the evening.
These behavioural traits would be along the lines of: crossed arms, downcast eyes, slightly worried expression, and giving a (very) wide berth to any groups of lads who were obviously dressed up and out and about for a night on the town.
To me, packs of tipsy or drunk blokes are usually nothing more than a minor annoyance, and very occasionally, but not usually, a bit intimidating.
But once I noticed how women react to them, it did get me thinking. And once you notice that sort of behaviour, it's very hard to 'un-notice' it. And you start seeing it everywhere, in all sorts of different locations, at all sorts of different times of day and night.
I find it a bit sad that we live in a society where there is a sort of omnipresent background hum of intimidatory vibes which around 50% of the population experience nearly all the time, which just happens to ratchet up sharply in certain areas at certain times (e.g. town centres late in the evening).
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Unfortunately though the right not to be offended does not and should not exist, because it is trumped thoroughly by the right of people to freely express themselves.
Oh goody. There's a few things I need to get off my chest.
I'll be round later to follow you around in public, screaming insults and general filth at the top of my lungs.
What? I'm only freely expressing myself. Your right not to be offended doesn't exist.
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We used to have an appeals judge in Italy who thought that wearing jeans on a woman's part was a form of provocation.
There was one in the UK who notoriously gave a rapist a light sentance because the person he attacked was wearing a miniskirt.
He's not dead, unfortunately, But he is working as a tabloid columnist. 'nuff said.
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Ah. This is the internet after all.
N00b got pwned, as I believe it is traditional to say at this point.
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gay badinage
Normal people don't do that sort of thing, so they don't know the other meanings.
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I should have erred on the side of caution.....
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I wouldn't go that far, Rich, especially where someone like Simon Collins is concerned. I'll always go for the lazy cock-up theory over the advertising department lead conspiracy any day of the week.
Oh, I know you're right. I'm just, y'know, sayin', is all.