Kif Kroker: “Leela must have impregnated me when she touched my ungloved hand. That explains the poster in hygiene class: No Glove, No Love.”
Provide a cite for this being “your culture” and not just you.
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Well, congratulations, I guess? You appear to have gotten really good at it.
Looks like he pops in from time to time. His last activity was in May but he hasn’t posted since December 2014.
Guys, enough already. Quit beating up on ZPGZealot over this. It’s been going on for fuckin’ years—how are you not tired of going over it for the thousandth time? It isn’t fair to her as an active member of the Doper community to single her out for mockery every damn time she tries to talk about any subject at all. Give her some fuckin’ space to breathe, will you? This isn’t just a dead horse you’re beating, it’s Eohippus. Let the poor equine rest in peace already.
She brought it up yet again, in the thread linked to in the OP. She labels women who do not agree with her as traitors to their sex and whores, and men as rapists. I think that’s a big deal.
I’m a Librarian at a university located in a large city in Texas. Because we have so many faculty and students from many diverse cultures, religions, and ethnicities and we all try to respect each other, the issue of men trying to intimidate women into physical contact rarely comes up. Touching someone without permission or implying they are suppose to touch you is one of the ultimate taboos not to do. It is on par with referring to dark skinned person as a nigger or a gay couple as hell-bound faggots, etc.
I counsel them that their bodies are sacred and private and no one has the right to ever touch them without their permission and encourage them to stand up for their rights as survivors rather than as victims.
This isn’t UT-Austin, is it?
I do fully understand that her views are bizarrely irrational and inappropriate for civil society. My feelings about this are aggravated by her appropriating the language of women fighting serious battles for bodily autonomy against pervasive, endemic rape culture—for the purpose of something ridiculous, which works toward trivializing the real work to end rape culture. <–See, now you’ve got me doing it. Anyway, the wrongness of her views is not even in question here.
I just instinctively feel uncomfortable to see a crowd dogpiling a single individual at such length; it’s been going on like this for several years. Can’t help feeling uncomfortable at mass pile-ons on lone individuals, even if they habitually say foolish shit, quite apart from the clear merits of the arguments refuting their foolish shit. It skates too close to the “letter of attainder” (the group using its collective power to have a go at a single specified person), which is unconstitutional and therefor un-American.
Well, I just had to articulate that. Keep calm and carry on. I’m out, bye.
It’s an oasis intelligence in Texas (beyond that I don’t like to give out more information on the net). University communities are often like that regardless of the rest of the state.
[QUOTE=ZPG Zealot;19447605Because we have so many faculty and students from many diverse cultures, religions, and ethnicities and we all try to respect each other, [/QUOTE]
You respect women who shake hands with men?
I suck at the quote feature.
Well while judging them as whores, sluts, and gender traitors. The best, most judgmental kind of respect!
So your employer has an actual policy that states handshaking is a violation of workplace conduct unless permission is explicitly asked and given?
Yeah, i don’t believe that either. My guess is she’s been around long enough for everyone to know and respect her personal hang ups, and no one tries to shake her hand.
No one has the right to ever touch them without their permission? What if they are pregnant and the father doesn’t want the baby?
Either that, or she’s been around long enough that everyone know’s not to set off the crazy lady. But that may just be semantics.
Bravo and Amen. Intimidation and force are abominable and I support you all the way. And when I extend my hand out to women in the widely recognized gesture that means “would you like to shake hands?”, I will think of you and smile, since you have taught me so much. And women around the country will recognize this gesture for what it is (because they’ve explicitly told me so) – as a respectful interrogative as to whether they would like to shake hands, and they are always free to decline with no consequences whatsoever.
I believe you missed this, unless you are dodging the question.