The rule is "ask for permission before toucing someone else".
I find it weird that you've escalated this into some huge thing that infringes upon your freedoms.
Keep your fucking hands off my body.
I find it weird that you've escalated this into some huge thing that infringes upon your freedoms.
Keep your fucking hands off my body.
The funny thing is that the same bullshit the WP article talks about already existed in the past, in the form of etiquette books like the Knigge or Emily Post and schools for good manners and etiquette. I firmly believe we can do without that nonsense.
I’m forced to spend a significant amount of time in Miami in a professional setting. I am so damn tired of women touching me in what I consider a wildly inappropriate and intimate way.
I never say anything to them because I don’t think their is anything wrong with them, I understand it’s just cultural. I share deep hugs with my close male friends of 30+ years frequently. I don’t accept that there is anything wrong with me or the above poster. We simply don’t want to be touched outside of the contexts we find appropriate.
This discussion has been excellent as it’s mainly focused on how to handle the rules of engagement in a world that includes people like us and people like them. Please try to focus on that and not on deciding who is wrong.
But I object to people who insist that a common behavior is deviant, wrong, or offensive simply because they don’t like it. Social norms should not be dictated by an loud idiosyncratic minority with extreme adverse reactions to normal interactions.