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freshwest

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3. Back in the stone ages, when I was growing up, boys treated girls like their sisters and weren't
Tue May 27, 2014, 10:38 PM
May 2014
'distracted' by them.

IOW, rthe girls want to be treated in a sisterly and brotherly way. This can and has been, a good thing in my life, even in my work life with otherwise jaded men. Some thought all sorts of weird stuff about women and how they should live their lives.

They could be snapped back to reality with a number of methods, and that included using the EEOC. The ones that were my friends saw me as as sister naturally without being told they were not being inappropriate, and showed respect.

This problem may be from family dysfunction, bur we saw it as the idal and problem of individual. Not a girl or woman's problem, the one who was making one by not having any boundaries.

The comment above about boys and men not wearing shirts is a good one. How many of them would think twice about that practice if they were being leered at by a group of girls or women and all these rules bing made up?

These girls are asking to be seen not as an emblem of someopn'es fantasy, but real people. JMHO.

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