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Originally Posted by wittynickname
So since it's just so difficult for men to control their predatory behavior and inherent creepiness, that means that women must change entirely? Don't get me wrong, I'm fully in favor of women making the first move--I usually do myself if I'm interested in someone--but women should not have to entirely change their behavior because men are apparently prone to be creepers.
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Okay I haven't been able to read through all of Witty's thing and I will but I'm kind of swamped with other stuff right now. I just want to address this bolded part because I think it's were a lot of the disconnect has been.
Myself, my comments have never been about what women MUST do to accommodate men's gross behaviour. Just that I believe it's going to be a natural sort of "balancing" between initiating sexual interest versus what has been a very one sided thing for a long time.
Can I also say that we are asking men overall to change their behaviour, are we not? It's a good thing, very good thing. Because patriarchal tendencies dominate everything from payscale to language. Are we could to pretend there's not going to be equal/opposite reactions on the part of women, not by demand just by nature? Again, maybe the wrong thread for it, but why is it a taboo subject?