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kag

(4,079 posts)
Fri Oct 17, 2014, 05:17 PM Oct 2014

I think I just had something of an epiphany.

It has to do with perverts who will come up behind a woman on the sidewalk or the subway or a crowded elevator, and rub their cock up against her or grab her ass or her breast.

People will sometimes respond to this with "How would you feel if a woman came up and grabbed your balls?" Well, the answer to that is usually a chuckle and a "Hell, yeah, Baby! Let's go!"

But here's my epiphany:

That's the wrong question. The question for these idiots is "How would you feel if a MAN, presumably a bigger, stronger man came up behind you and rubbed his cock up against you or grabbed your nut sack?"

Just a thought.

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I think I just had something of an epiphany. (Original Post) kag Oct 2014 OP
Unless I had a gun, I would walk away and call 911, after taking a cell phone shot at the pervert Demeter Oct 2014 #1
That is an excellent example coldean Oct 2014 #2
A gay man actually did that to me Shankapotomus Nov 2014 #3
 

Demeter

(85,373 posts)
1. Unless I had a gun, I would walk away and call 911, after taking a cell phone shot at the pervert
Fri Oct 17, 2014, 05:54 PM
Oct 2014

No sense in escalating a no-win scenario.

coldean

(47 posts)
2. That is an excellent example
Sat Oct 25, 2014, 06:26 AM
Oct 2014

Thank you for explaining this situation in a way most men can understand.
Another question for them would be
"How would you feel if some man came up behind your wife/mother/sister/daughter and grabbed her breasts and ass?"

So many men don't understand the fear of having a stronger, aggressive stranger coming up to you and letting you know that he can have you anytime he wanted. That is the message that these perverts are wanting to get across.
For us women to know that we can't do anything if and when these men decide to take us and show us who is boss, who is superior. They want us to shut the hell up and to lay down while they see the fear in our eyes. They want to punish us for every perceived wrong that was done to then by a women.

And to top it off we have law makers that think we should be prepared for these attacks. We should be on the pill or be wearing our diaphragm everywhere we go. They don't realize that making us responsible for the outcomes of our own rape is the same as believing these rapists have every right to rape us.

Shankapotomus

(4,840 posts)
3. A gay man actually did that to me
Fri Nov 7, 2014, 09:03 PM
Nov 2014

at a hair salon. I'm not gay. I didn't say anything. It doesn't happen a lot. But then I don't go out a lot either. To this day I still don't know what that was all about, since he knew I was seeing a woman who worked there at the time.

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