oaf@mit-vax.UUCP ([Oded Anoaf Feingold]) (05/21/85)
>> When was the last time you were physically molested? (Sarah E. Dugan) > You have a point. This behavior is juvenile. I have had it > happen (VERY rarely) and while it WAS annoying, I didn't get > particularly upset about it. (Geoff Sherwood) That reply doesn't wash. Males molesting females convey a threat of further molestation and violence, and the message that the woman has no security except their mercy. It virtually never happens the other way round. Women live in fear of such violence, constantly reinforced. Men don't. No wonder you didn't get upset. The analogy for _your_ carcass would be groups of bikers or teenagers, or (what the hell?) cops who take "semi-friendly" slaps at you as they pass. > I have met numerous women (mostly college age) who seemed to take great > delight in teasing men as far as they can, and then shutting them down. Probably says more about the audience than the performer. -- Oded Feingold {decvax, harvard}!mitvax!oaf MIT AI Lab oaf%oz@mit-mc.ARPA 545 Tech Sq. 617-253-8598 work Cambridge, Mass. 02139 617-371-1796 home