ZPG Zealot: A troll too far

Firstly, you mean battery (at least at common law), and secondly, you’re wrong. Harmful of offensive intentional contact as that would be understood by a reasonable person is battery. Touching that a reasonable person would not consider harmful or offensive is not. Contact incidental to day to day life, like touching your hand, patting your shoulder, or jostling you on the subway, is not battery. If you try to report the next man who touches your hand to the police you will be very surprised and disappointed. Intentionally killing a pregnant woman is still murder, however, and there is no legally recognized defense of “she was suing me for child support.”

I’m going to try one last time to explain this, hope springs eternal and all.

In the US, as well as much of the rest of the world, offering your hand to a person is not treating that person like a prostitute. At least not unless your hand is full of money and you’re offering them that money to have sex with you.

In retrospect, I wish you hadn’t eaten all those lead paint chips as a child.

The OP is only occasionally right, but this is one of those times.

Yep, you’re insane.

Do me a favor, doll - don’t fight for me. I can fight my own battles, and they have nothing to do with whether or not I want to shake hands.

Nurse! Runaway on aisle three!

You know thinking back, at graduation the Dean and President of the college shook every graduating student’s hand. Every single one.

Ok, but what I don’t get is how someone else’s action reflect on you. ASSUMING that more people than just you think that offering a handshake is calling the other person a whore how does that translate into everyone else thinking you’re a whore. Why don’t they think the other person is a boor for insulting you like that? Anyway Miss Manners says that except for certain situations the woman determines whether handshaking is called for, so point to you, I guess. Sorta. BUT it’s even ruder to ignore an extended hand, even if they were incorrect to offer it. So you’re a rude crank. And I would rather be a whore than rude.

Fucking campus cops, in the Dean’s pocket. Why else wouldn’t they intervene in such a blatant case of serial assault?

Wait, they never caught the campus rapist…the two unidentified suspects…oh my God, it all makes sense now! How fast can you drive, man? How fast can you drive?!?

Just realized something. I started a new internship today and I got taken around to meet and shake hands with some of the people working there. Yeah. If anyone needs me, I’ll be alternating between scrubbing my hand and crying in the bathroom and rocking back and forth in a fetal position on the floor of my bedroom…

I once shook 500 hands in a single day. You can buy the video for just $19.99, with your paid subscription to my website.

Wow, what’s it like to be a WHORE?

Any triple handshakes in it? 'cause if so, I’m on it like white on rice!

You simply don’t have the ability to do basic crictical thinking do you, hon? Maybe somebody slipped you some LSD during all that hand shaking. The dividing line is choice. A woman can be completely celibate or she can sleep with ever guy in town as long as that is what she chooses, not what she has been compelled to do by some one else. It’s a very simple principle. A woman’s body and her sexuality are hers alone and she can use them anyway she wishes as long as she doesn’t violate someone else’s rights. (i…e. the right to swing her fist ends where someone else’s nose begins). She can have sex with any willing (so Dio doesn’t get upset I’ll add of legal age here) partner, but she can’t rape somebody else.

Bigots and bullies? For shaking your hand? Is there something else involved here? Are you perhaps a germophobe?

So why are you so against a man’s choice to offer you his hand, so long as you retain your choice to refuse it?

What kind of anatomical anomaly do you think I am, ya perv? :eek:

I only have two hands. For the sake of time, some of them had to take a foot. :smiley:

Did you wear a glove?

Check out these perverts! (warning: possibly NSFW)

Sure. And we reserve the right call her a whore if she’s blowing guys left and right or giving out, er… “hand-jobs”…