The OSBP (more accurately Open Access than Open Source) explicitly claims to be operating on the grounds of "I don't know your mind, but I'd like to touch your body."
No, actually, it's more accurately Open Source than Open Access. Because if you wore a green button, you were allowed to say no. (Although not all green-button-wearers were aware of this, which is a serious failure.)
Now, guy in the bar could just be faking interest in the girl's mind, but at least he's doing that much.
I disagree, quite powerfully. Then again, I'm a naive idiot who thinks that a more honest world would be a better one.
But think for a moment - why is it that women are afraid that men are constantly looking for excuses to feel them up? Quite possibly because of exactly the sort of deception that you're promoting. If men could be trusted to say what they want and to take no for an answer (I accept that this is a Very Big If), wouldn't that be empowering for women?
Isn't that what people were trying to promote, however clumsily and controversially?
Shouldn't intimacy between the man and woman in the bar be given to each other because they both want to, not earned by him because he made an effort?
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Date: 2008-04-25 04:59 am (UTC)No, actually, it's more accurately Open Source than Open Access. Because if you wore a green button, you were allowed to say no. (Although not all green-button-wearers were aware of this, which is a serious failure.)
Now, guy in the bar could just be faking interest in the girl's mind, but at least he's doing that much.
I disagree, quite powerfully. Then again, I'm a naive idiot who thinks that a more honest world would be a better one.
But think for a moment - why is it that women are afraid that men are constantly looking for excuses to feel them up? Quite possibly because of exactly the sort of deception that you're promoting. If men could be trusted to say what they want and to take no for an answer (I accept that this is a Very Big If), wouldn't that be empowering for women?
Isn't that what people were trying to promote, however clumsily and controversially?
Shouldn't intimacy between the man and woman in the bar be given to each other because they both want to, not earned by him because he made an effort?