• Chuymatt@beehaw.org
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    14 days ago

    I think it may be that a lot of women don’t enjoy the kind of unwanted attention due to their being sexualized from a young age, or that is what I have been told by many women I have talked to about their experiences.

    • Monkey With A Shell@lemmy.socdojo.com
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      15 days ago

      And their experiences are valid, but the response doesn’t need to be such an aggressive do-not-approach mentality.

      Many years back I was in a shop that had an oldies channel on and I heard this song that, while from well before my time so I’m speculating a bit here, probably caused some panic back in their time.

      Now we OnlyFans and TikTok with all their various levels of showing off that has for a long time been championed as empowering and free willed choice.

      Somewhere in the middle ground between the excessively conservative repressed mind and the ‘everything is sex’ space there was a nice middle ground of ‘hey, would you like to go out some time’ without it being a commitment for either marriage or an orgy.