TicklishPhoebe
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- Jan 31, 2002
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I must respectfully disagree with the "People on the internet are jerks so suck it up" mentality.
I don't think that having one's contact info on the internet (or in a newspaper, or magazine) makes it okay to be lewd/crude/sexually explicit to someone who hasn't agreed to it. IMO, that's very similar to verbally harrassing random women on the street just because 'they deserve it'. Yes, I realize that it happens, but I don't think it's ever deserved or justified, and publicly excusing the behavior does exactly that.
I was always under the impression that we lived in a civilized society where there are just some things that one shouldn't say (or type, as the case may be) to someone that isn't, er, an intimate aquaintance.
Yes, I realize that my best course of action is hitting the 'delete' button, but I'm still disappointed when human beings show a lack of basic common courtesy.
I don't think that having one's contact info on the internet (or in a newspaper, or magazine) makes it okay to be lewd/crude/sexually explicit to someone who hasn't agreed to it. IMO, that's very similar to verbally harrassing random women on the street just because 'they deserve it'. Yes, I realize that it happens, but I don't think it's ever deserved or justified, and publicly excusing the behavior does exactly that.
I was always under the impression that we lived in a civilized society where there are just some things that one shouldn't say (or type, as the case may be) to someone that isn't, er, an intimate aquaintance.
Yes, I realize that my best course of action is hitting the 'delete' button, but I'm still disappointed when human beings show a lack of basic common courtesy.