Ooh, neat, a pregnant lady. I think I’ll assault her - that’ll show her how I respect the miracle of birth!
The problems didn’t stop once they were born because then you get the people who think it is their right to touch or pick up or make loud noises at a total stranger’s baby, without first asking if the parents are OK with it, and without stopping to think that the baby might not like strangers or loud noises.
I didn’t have a problem with the ones who just wanted to peek or make faces or make cutesy sounds at a normal level. It was the OHHH MYYY GOOOOOOOOD YOU’RE SUCH A CUTE BABY COME HERE GIVE ME SNUGGLES!!! people I wanted to hit with a dirty diaper.
My daughter did spit up all over a nosy parker once. I was so proud of her!
Uh, I used to be an attractive young woman. I know what I’d do if someone I know touched me in an inappropriate social setting because I know what I’ve done. And yeah, pulling myself away without actually saying anything out loud is what I usually did.
About once a month I get some joker touching/yanking my braid, which is currently waist-length. It pisses me off. Look, admire my hair all you want but do it at a distance. WTF, people?
General rule for everyone should be no touching without explicit permission unless you’re about to perform CFR or snatch them out of the path of a fiery dragon’s breath or similar life-saving/emergency maneuver. Which almost never happens in real life so back the F off.
Sometimes I get loud, but all too often it’s a situation were I can’t do that without risking negatives on myself. Assholes.
Right. You know because you’ve done it. Therefore you’re not the kind of person I was talking about. I doubt the people who were telling Ace they’d have rocked it/ gone all Miss Manners on Tipsy Bridezilla have ever been in that situation and they’d be just as confused and awkward as he was.
They probably wonder if it’s your own hair, not that it makes pulling somebody’s hair any less rude and stupid. I have a friend whose hair is very tight corkscrew curls and she gets her share of people trying to pet her, as she puts it.
Yeah, I do get people asking me if it’s all my own real hair or extensions. I’m OK with that. I’m totally cool with them using their words. It’s touching without permission that pisses me off, even more when they do it from behind which is, at best, startling and under some circumstances downright frightening. I’m sure some do it from ignorance, I’m equally sure some do it because they get off on the reaction, particularly on the reaction of someone who’s working in retail and thus has very limited options for telling them off or saying NO and making it stick.
Ditto for touching pregnant women, molesting wedding guests, and so on.
I have never been groped, because I’m a big fat homely dude, but I’m pretty confident that I would have ‘rocked it’ exactly as I described above.
If somebody tried to grab my beard, on the other hand, I would fucking recoil. Prod my torso, okay, that’s creepy. Go for my face and you’re gonna see me jerk away. Fortunately nobody has gone for it, likely due to the lack of visual appeal mentioned above.