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Old 06-06-2015, 03:37 PM   #44
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Originally Posted by DanaC View Post
You'd have a fair point if catcalling was something that wasn't loaded with sexual meaning and gender assumptions. Does it happen to men? Yeah, sometimes - but mainly it is something that women experience, and experience because they are women.
It is certainly a manifestation of gender dynamic and it's certainly - at least a good portion o the time - a sexual advance, neither one of those form particular good exceptions to what I said.

There is an awkward combination of competing social forces atm which vilify sexual and/or romantic initiative in more and more of it's forms in a way that makes good old Catholicism and Jewish Hasidics seem like the 60s sexually revolution by comparison. Why should sexuality be exception to the basic tenants of liberty?
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