See, I fall under the 'Ask' school of thought; I absolutely hate pussy footing around issues. Hinting drives me up the wall because it is a complete waste of time on the parts of everyone involved. However, I do know when not to say anything, which seem to be lacking at times with many people.

I understand the lack of socials skills in people, I know lots of male engineers and computer science geeks, and while I dearly care about them I do find them to be completely idiots at times when it comes to attitudes and behaviour in social settings. I do try and give most guys the benefits of the doubt.

However, my main issue with the whole thing was that it is wholly targeted at women. At no point does he even entertain the thought of wearing a badge that says 'You may touch my dick', and when someone did raise the point in his comments his answer was along the lines of 'but people would think me weird', and my reaction is 'and you think people will think chicks will be perceived less weirdly?'. It makes me froth at the mouth that he didn’t seem to see a problem of only women wearing the badges.

Just yeah.


(There seem to be less of a problem here in Australia, or maybe I just hang out with the right people. Don’t get me wrong we have sexist dicks, but generally speaking most of my male friends are nice and understanding. I mean when they hang around with other guy friends they tend to degenerate into 12-yr-olds and talk shit, but honestly it isn’t like we women don’t talk shit about hot men. Gods, most of the fanfiction I read is all about the sexualisation of men. So I don’t have a problem with that, and it isn’t as if they don’t respect women, if something they say piss me off I tell them, and even if it doesn’t sink in 9 out of 10 they won’t say it again, at least in my presence.

I would love to stage a coup. To be sure, I’m more interested in shoes and stockings, but I love hats too!)