If you haven’t been around the SDMB long enough, you probably don’t even know what I’m talking about. But our very own @ZPG_Zealot (who I have not seen lately - is she still around?) claimed a few years ago that a man spontaneously trying to shake a woman’s hand was tantamount to rape. Needless to say, that went well.
Anyway, a photo of Biden and Pence elbow-bumping when they were at the same event in NY got me to thinking. I suppose it’s a vain hope, but I wish ZPG would come tell us her thoughts on elbow bumps and rape.
(I’m putting this in the Pit because if anyone has comments on ZPG’s unique viewpoint, they are unlikely to be flattering.)
As the people involved were men, aka subhuman rape monsters, I doubt she’d consider it rape. After all, it’s impossible for two rapists to rape each other, because math.
From that link, and I only read two of her posts, she seems to be losing the ability to form ostensibly coherent sentences – grammar, verb tense, and vocabulary all over the place.
Agree with respect to Pence and Biden, but I was thinking of the case where a man offers to elbow-bump with a woman.
Actually, now that I’ve looked at the white-people-using-the-n-word thread, I’ve refreshed my memory on her utter certainty that the slightest gesture from a man toward a woman is the equivalent of rape. So I guess I know the answer to the question: yes, ZPG_Zealot would almost certainly consider a man preferring his elbow to a woman for a friendly bump as a form of rape.
I just now saw this auto-correct. I meant to type “proffering” but I guess Discourse decided I meant the more common word, whatever the hell I originally typed. Serves me right for getting all fancy-like, I could have just written “offering.”
But now we can wonder under what circumstances a man might prefer his elbow to a woman. (Perhaps the woman is ZPG_Zealot, and she is berating him for approaching her? I’d prefer my elbow to that any day.)
It’s kind of funny, but it’s also kind of depressing to note she’s the sort of person who would have gotten Emmitt Till killed and laughed about it. She called black people a disgusting racial slur just for saying hi.
Now, if I wanted to stick strictly to the title of the thread
… (and hey, why not?)
I’d tell the tale of my wife and I meeting with a surgeon and his assistant… everyone was masked and shielded but not gloved.
As he said goodbye, he grabbed my bare hand and shook it.
I was in shock, and just stared at my hand as he bustled out to his next appointment (and shake more hands). Wife, assistant and I just looked at each other… “WHAT just happened?”
