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In reply to the discussion: I want to know how you get permission to touch someone. [View all]True Dough
(17,302 posts)67. That just sounds absurd
and yet it's pertinent. Thanks for the analogy.
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i hugged my sister too hard once, she got a bruise and called the cops on me...
samnsara
Mar 2019
#1
Hey I told you I felt bad about how I used to think ... it was a long time ago ...
mr_lebowski
Mar 2019
#118
You don't have to ask me. You can sidle up to me at the bar, plant a peck on my cheek
mr_lebowski
Mar 2019
#30
Suppose I said yes, it wouldn't much matter ... esp. if I was at a downtown SF bar, which I've been
mr_lebowski
Mar 2019
#69
Joe Biden definitely needs to up his sensitivity level towards this subject, no question ...
mr_lebowski
Mar 2019
#123
"I'd rather live in a world where a the default attitude of a spontaneous touch is considered a form
WhiskeyGrinder
Mar 2019
#24
When someone "spontaneously touches" numerous people over and over, it's not spontaneously touching
SFnomad
Mar 2019
#82
"I'd rather live in a world where a the default attitude of a spontaneous touch is considered....
LAS14
Apr 2019
#142
Yours is the only reply that I think honestly answered the original poster's question.
arthurgoodwin
Mar 2019
#73
Some people - and I'm one of them - prefer not to be embraced or touched
The Velveteen Ocelot
Mar 2019
#11
I have met Al Franken previously and wouldn't be *offended* if he put his arm around me.
The Velveteen Ocelot
Mar 2019
#119
Try an experiment. Come up ftom behind a female coworker at the water cooler, put your hands on.
CentralMass
Mar 2019
#16
But you do understand there are STILL a LOT of men who say they are "confused"
TexasBushwhacker
Mar 2019
#63
That might be because you have a certain attitude about someone touching you ...
mr_lebowski
Mar 2019
#92
Or "Groundhog Day." The same conversation over and over and over. It isn't hard for most
Squinch
Mar 2019
#101
Each person has a right to their own boundaries. That seems so obvious to me that
lilactime
Mar 2019
#27
Here's a good idea. Don't touch a woman unless she is a close family member or invites
Autumn
Mar 2019
#29
I guess you could hand the person a form with boxes next to different types of kissing ond touching.
Cold War Spook
Mar 2019
#35
Yes. That is a perfectly measured response to the fact that a woman expressed an objection
Squinch
Mar 2019
#104
These threads have taught me that there are some truly creepy guys on this board.
Tipperary
Mar 2019
#102
Oh my God! How will you survive all the confusion!!! A woman DOESN'T want a stranger to
Squinch
Mar 2019
#107