I agree 100% that it is harassment.
But I utterly fail to see how encouraging people to phone a number and impersonate a fictional hairy alien perpetuates rape culture or encourages men to display less emotion or whatever.
(, Tue 28 Jul 2020, 15:20, Reply)
But, still, "whiny entitled socialised to think that he's entitled to make women's lives that bit less pleasant" is pretty high up my list of explanations for his behaviour.
(, Tue 28 Jul 2020, 17:33, Reply)
... does not reduce the woman to being “helpless”; she could react with anything from an eye roll to a panic attack and the unreasonableness of the prank would still exist.
Here’s the crucial bit for the idiots; when your partner dumps you, prank time is over, and any person who isn’t a fully paid up moron can see that inviting unwanted attention onto your ex is creepy abusive shit, and that doing so in a way that’s funny to other creep shits and idiots doesn’t make it more lighthearted, it just means that the creepy abusive dick is still convincing himself he’s a funny guy.
Always funny to see the knots people will twist themselves in to avoid saying anything as mundane as “that’s not on”
(, Tue 28 Jul 2020, 22:21, Reply)
A convincing argument.
I still think that reducing this to toxic masculinity is missing a wider point, but I see now that I may have missed a finer point or two myself.
Good internetting, cheers.
(, Wed 29 Jul 2020, 15:56, Reply)
(, Tue 28 Jul 2020, 18:37, Reply)