Even something as asinine as, say, "Wow, you've got huge boobs!", might be a one-off extreme lack of social skills -- the first and only time it happens. But the kind of things she's talking about are the symptoms of much more fundamental dysfunction. These are adult men treating women as though they are objects for the pleasure and amusement of men, and doing so openly and habitually.
These people should be pariahs in their industry, but somehow they're not. That does not reflect well on the culture, and says there is a serious problem.
(Edit: By the way, I have asperger's syndrome and seriously deficient social skills, and I've said stupid things a few times to women when my mouth got ahead of my brain, but nothing even remotely like the creepy "It's not fair!" guy or the threatening "hook up" guy.)
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Even something as asinine as, say, "Wow, you've got huge boobs!", might be a one-off extreme lack of social skills -- the first and only time it happens. But the kind of things she's talking about are the symptoms of much more fundamental dysfunction. These are adult men treating women as though they are objects for the pleasure and amusement of men, and doing so openly and habitually.
These people should be pariahs in their industry, but somehow they're not. That does not reflect well on the culture, and says there is a serious problem.
(Edit: By the way, I have asperger's syndrome and seriously deficient social skills, and I've said stupid things a few times to women when my mouth got ahead of my brain, but nothing even remotely like the creepy "It's not fair!" guy or the threatening "hook up" guy.)