Entitlement to solicit women

[redqueen]

There is a dangerous mindset ... well, everywhere ... that men are somehow entitled to approach strangers to initiate some kind of romantic contact. Somehow I don't think this would be the case if the media didn't offer up women's bodies like they were hors d'ouvres.

I don't know how any woman can find this behavior flattering. It's nothing to do with who you are, it's what you look like that they notice, and they don't notice and decide they want to get to know who you are, what kind of person you are, be your friend, no... they want something else. Somehow I think women wouldn't respond to such impersonal attention to their bodies as things in any positive way ever if we weren't conditioned to think that our looks were our most important asset.

Sorry, I just saw a comment that expressed this 'every guy gets to ask once' mindset. Pisses me right off.

[BlueIris]

1. I get so fucking pissed off when that happens. Especially when it's followed up with shit like:

"Just trying to be nice."

"Just trying to make friends."

"What do you have to be such a bitch for?"

"Men have to kiss your ass, don't they?"

All of these are actual comments I have received after refusing to acknowledge propositions. Even on the street. At night.

[redqueen]

2. Yep, they are completely blind to their entitlement, to their privilege.

The situation with Rebecca Watson earlier this year demonstrated that so very well.