Obligatory Boob response post

[pegkerr]

Re: the whole Open Source Boob Touching thang/topic/kerfluffle.

Started here.

Clarified here.

Quite a few on my friends list are talking (and some are raging) about this.

I am somehow just not in the mood, I must admit, to wade through the 3,000+ comments that this particular topic has generated and I have no intention of putting my mind to crafting a thought-provoking, delicately worded, oh-so-insightful little post in response. Meh. I just can't be bothered.

But in case I need to state the obvious, just . . .don't ask to touch my breasts, thanks. Even politely. Whether you admire them or not is immaterial to me.

(And, in case you didn't know, if you don't ask first, of course, you are liable to get a well-placed elbow smash to your windpipe. So I really wouldn't recommend taking that course of action. I'm pretty sure sensei would back me up, too.)

I'm so glad we've got that cleared up. Carry on with what you were doing.

Thank you,
The Management

Comments

[johnridley.livejournal.com]

I dunno. Manslaughter is a little bit of an extreme reaction.

[pegkerr.livejournal.com]

Well, yes, sensei probably wouldn't be too pleased with that. I promise to pull my punch. A little.

(The post is probably somewhat of a failure anyway if I have to actually point out that I was partly being flippant and facetious. I'm glad I didn't put any more effort into it than I did.

Also please snote the use of the "bitchy" mood icon.)

[aome.livejournal.com]

I confess, it would never have occurred to me to touch ANYONE's boob, male or female, unless they were my romantic partner or I was their doctor. O_o I mean, I can like admiring them visually, but still wouldn't dream of touching, with or without permission. The things people think of to argue about....

[ame-chan.livejournal.com]

I was surprised by how many buttons this pushed for me and how angry I got about it. It was not what I expected to feel.

[huladavid.livejournal.com]

Oh dear... I remember one Minicon Sunday evening when (I think) Martin Schaffer* (sp?) ran amok in the consuite pinching people in the butt, and now I'm looking at it in a whole 'nother light.
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*Or maybe it was Karen Johnson

[avengangle.livejournal.com]

I am now incredibly glad that I had to work the weekend of Penguicon. Yuck. I like my personal autonomy, thanks.

And if someone touches my breasts without asking, they're liable to get slapped -- perhaps with my hand, but it's just as likely that they would get slapped with a lawsuit.

[rachet.livejournal.com]

*blink*

Uh...OK. This is the first I've heard about anything like this. But I don't get to many cons. Except for Origins a couple years ago to meet Sean Astin. Perhaps that's why? It's a world I'm not familiar with.

(Though I'd kill to make it to at least one ComicCon! Unless there was boob touching. Then I'd have to take the nearest sword and gut someone.)

[perimyndith.livejournal.com]

Yikes. HOW did I miss your posts the first time??

I'm curring nursing a toddler -- a 27 month old, that is -- and I don't consider boobs to be strictly sexual objects and don't have a problem showing boob in public.

But the "Open Boob Project"? That's outrageous. And I'm with you, the first person to touch my boobs in public gets a knee to the groin and/or a sexual assault case with their name on it. It's bad enough IMO that lately cons seem to be chock full of people exposing totally inappropriate amounts of skin, but adults groping in public is way over the line, no matter what excuse they're using.