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(...)might have found that a number of the people who wanted to provide that compliment might have turned a bit aggressive when they discovered that they weren't going to get anything beyond an acknowledgement that they had, indeed, just said something nice about her hair.
See my comment re: remaining within someone's space after it's been made clear you're not welcome. It's a pretty simple social skill, and I think you and me both have good reasons for being sad when some men fail at that.
Of course, it's possible that nobody has to worry about non-domestic violence in your neck of the woods, DV
I... didn't say that. It's all about emphasis, really. I'm not denying the possibility of non-domestic violence, but acknowledging that violence against women takes different forms depending on where you are, and that women's reaction to the approach of men changes in response to those changes. In a context where the threat of domestic violence looms larger than the threat of being assaulted on the street, it makes sense to find (very) few women carrying mace in their purses. It's only logical.
And also, of course, I don't think the species is propagated very much as a result of men hitting on women on trains or in the street.
Neither do I. I don't know who said that, but he probably wasn't paying attention. All I said was that the propagation of the species necessarily demands an initial breach, take it the form it takes, an encounter, a change from a position in which elements A and B have not breached each others' personal space, do not know each other, to a situation in which that breach has occurred. Pretty simple stuff. |
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