Epytropos -> RE: What dominant women endure online - a halfway clueless male's perspective (8/6/2011 1:15:24 PM)
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ORIGINAL: LadyConstanze Well, since you aren't convinced that being offended is not a real emotion we're all not entitled to our feelings? You're entitled to your feelings, I'm just not convinced that they actually exist as they are described. I've never met anyone who claimed to be offended by things that wasn't trying to gain control over a related situation - the anti-porn people, the anti-gay people, the anti-violent film/tv/game/etc people, they all have one thing in common, and that is that they are trying to make some power play in society. If that estimation is incorrect, feel free to be as offended as you like. quote:
some of us just might not like to be assaulted with the sexual fantasies of strangers, so your solution is to put the profile into hiding and not get any mails instead of having the reasonable expectation that people treat you like a human being and not some piece of meat that is there to fulfill their fantasies? Great solution.... Isn't that like telling a woman if you don't want to have your butt pinched in public transportation, you better not leave the house or make sure you only take a car? One would think that it is a reasonable expectation to be treated with some basic respect, but again, that's just me... Fair point - I just don't see the emails that get quoted here as being anything close to as bad as all that. I see one of these threads every few weeks at a minimum, and many are rife with quotes of these 'terrible' emails, and they're hardly the worst thing I've read. I just have real trouble with the idea that they have any real affect on people who read them by choice. Being molested on a train is no closer to having an email sent to you asking if you like "loser pig boys" than it is to hearing the word 'cunt' in casual conversation, which incidentally is another one of those things people are always 'offended' enough by that others are expected to acquiesce to their 'needs' quote:
Oh and congratulations on being one of those super rare males who get as much mail as women... I never said I got as much as women. I said I got it and managed not to let it drive me to grief. quote:
As for the profile views, not a clue how many of them I have, can't be honestly arsed to check who views my profile, and I don't really know why I should worry about having a certain number or less? As I said, couldn't even tell you how many people do view. What is there to worry about if it's less? Like no random strangers clicked on the profile and feeling a sense of loss? I just thought his numbers were odd so I thought I'd make an aside about it. Not making any sort of commentary on anyone's potency via their view totals. Incidentally, how on earth do you manage not to click your 'people viewing me' tab when it's glowing red? It would drive me nuts...
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