Hur hur hur. You’re so clever.
Let me just clarify this. What I’ve actually said is that if Joe Average says “Hi, may I join you?” or something along those lines to a pretty girl he is trying to meet in a public bar that she is choosing to hang out in, than that’s probably ok.
From this, you’re claiming that I advocate sexual harassment, propositioning strangers for sex, and RAPE???
Are you just being an asshole, or are you that twisted? When my grandfather was dying of Alzheimers he used to blurt out things that had no relationship to what people were saying around him. You’re like that without the excuse.
you’ve had plenty of opportunities to discuss things like an intelligent adult.
For now, consider me a supermodel. Don’t speak to me unless I speak to you first.
A message board is a public place designed for social interaction. You cant seriously be getting pissed off at **Dio** for engaging you. Pretty snotty attitude... It sounds like this old dude I know. I bet youre technically old.
All lame attempts at joking aside, this thread is better than Clash of the Titans. It`s a smorgasbord of button-pushing doper topics with a great cast of characters.
My two cents on this whole issue is, well, things don`t have to be so darn black and white. She certainly has the right not to be hit on, but as for not being approached period? I dunno. There are bars and there are bars. Some bars are either fancy or otherwise inappropriate for random talking or flirting with strangers. If however, Jess here goes to a more normal bar, then… She both has every right to desire to be left alone, while at the same time your average Schmoe has the right to politefully go up and engage her in NON-sleazy talk/flirtaciousness.
One thing I see a lot in this thread that kinda bothers me is that somehow hitting on somebody or flirting with somebody automatically equals sleazeball dirtbag potential stalker rapist baby-stomping Obama-Bush-Hitler. Geez people. You can talk to somebody and make your intentions known, sexual or otherwise, without being a creep or a jerkwad.
But, getting back to Jess, I wager her statement stems from the stream of unwanted attention, therefore her desire for some peace and quiet is quite understandable. Where things go off the rails is not the general gist of what she said, but the extent and tone in which she took it. She sounds like a prissy Victorian-era Queen of Hearts. Whether she truly meant it that way is an exercise for the doper hoards.
For context there is a video of a bit of the interview were the quote came from at this site. They don’t show her saying it. But, you get a real feel for what the interview is like. Going from what I saw her comment was almost certainly tongue in cheek.
Popeater
Speaking of context. I had to look up this lady to see what she looked like, especially after I read what was said about her. To benefit others I thought I would give some links to offer as a handy guide of compare and contrast.
Here’s a picture of Miss Hart
Jess Hart
And here is a picture of obese people.
Obese People
Here’s more shots of Hart
Jess Hart
And now some two bit whores
Whores
And Finally
Jess Hart
And this is what Frankenstein’s Monster looks like.
Good old Frank.
I dunno about the rest of you, but I would pay a lot more than two bits for her whorish services. You folks are seriously undervaluing her.
Doesn’t look like my type, really, but if she struck up a conversation with me I’d talk with her and see where it led.
Hear, hear!
Scylla, I disagree with you on a lot of things, especially political matters, but I think you have a very good point there. I agree about the heroin waif look too. It definitely has something about it, but as you said, it’s fleeting.
Johnny Carson used to HATE it when people approached him in public, especially if he was eating, because it happened All. The. Damned. Time. People saw him five times a week, late at night, and so they (subconciously) felt that they were friends with him. THEY knew a lot about HIM, but to Johnny, they were just random strangers who would not let him have a moment’s peace when he was in public. JH is experiencing the same thing, only with her, I imagine that it’s guys who fantasize about her. They see her when she’s next to naked, they wank to her image, they think they’ve got a relationship with her. They don’t. People think that because public figures are, you know, well-known, that means that every member of the public has the right to try to interact with them at any moment. No, it doesn’t.
Being smiled at and having someone try to chat you up is flattering…the first few hundred times. After a while it gets very, very old. I speak from experience here, and while I was quite attractive when I was younger, I was never a public figure.
Jess is asserting her right to be left alone. EVERY person has the right to be left alone. Sure, it’s nice if a public figure is gracious, especially to a young person, but public figures are NOT obliged to give a smile, or an autograph, or a photo opportunity to random strangers, any more than non-public figures are. Some people seem to think they have a right to public figure’s time and good will. However, even public figures have the same amount of minutes in a day that the rest of us have…and if they’d rather not be bothered by random strangers wanting to spend time with them, that’s their business. It’s like beggars. Every beggar just wants a couple of bucks, but if you give every single one of them a buck or two, there are still beggars with an empty cup…and you’re out of money. Same with famous people. If they spend five minutes with every person who wants that time, then they don’t have any time to themselves.
You do realize how creepy this makes you sound, right?
You’ll get a much better experience if you upgrade to the 64 bit whores.
looking at that smile, you can pretnd to confuse her with Michael Strahan. That should make her night. 
That profile view put me right off. Seriously.
I’d aim for confusing her with Lauren Hutton. Cause Ms Hutton, though hot, is what, 60? Almost 70 actually. And a hell of a lot more iconic.
It should be “spoken to.”
Sadly, in a text-based medium some of the essential “flavor” of one’s remarks is often lost or easily misconstrued, but **Scylla **is a good guy. He only sprays the ones who flat-out *refuse *to apply the lotion.
I don’t see the problem with her statement, she’s not forbidding the well muscled gibbons from staring at her as she evolves she just says don’t talk to me. And for you gibbons, that means keep your vocalizations to yourself.
No, that’s uninvited sexual harassment. Your contention that simply by being present in a bar, a woman has an obligation to endure unctious come ons from every skeevy pig in the joint is misogynist and is a distant cousin of saying “she’s asking for it.”
For me I am not sure whether its the “man hands” or the bad “two face” lighting issue that puts me off. Though I bet a shopping trip, some lair clean up/remodeling, liberal use of “product”, and a few quick cooking and social lessons would fix ole Frank right up!
I just realized I clicked a Fox link. Will I be okay?
Arghh. That OP is so bitter, it’s cringe inducing.
If saying hello and offering to buy a woman a drink is “sexual harassment,” then sexual harassment no longer has any meaning. Ergo, sexual harassment has been eradicated. Hooray!
For the home viewers: saying hello, politely introducing yourself, offering to buy a drink, etc. is NOT sexual harassment, no matter how oily Dio’s theoretical suitor or how put-upon his imagined too-hot-for-hoi-polloi damsel-in-distress. Keeping at it after she says “no thanks,” or “piss off, Scylla” treads into harassment territory, of course. Is it annoying? Probably. Being panhandled for change is annoying too, but that doesn’t make it armed robbery.
Now if anyone needs me, I’ll be in the ATMB thread where Diogenes is gamely defending himself against scurrilous accusations that he makes intentionally provocative statements just to rile other posters up.