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May I grope your breasts? It's liberating!!! wank
(Anonymous)
2008-04-22 08:52 pm UTC (link)

At a recent con, someone had a brainwave.

"This should be a better world," a friend of mine said. "A more honest one, where sex isn't shameful or degrading. I wish this was the kind of world where say, 'Wow, I'd like to touch your breasts,' and people would understand that it's not a way of reducing you to a set of nipples and ignoring the rest of you, but rather a way of saying that I may not yet know your mind, but your body is beautiful."

This is from a post *endorsing* the product of said brainwave, the Open Source Boobs Project.

http://theferrett.livejournal.com/1087686.html

The project was, basically, walking up to women and offering them buttons that said "Yes you may" and "No you may not" the may in question being "May I ask to touch your breasts?"

Surprisingly, not everyone in the world thought this was a wonderful idea. Breast wank ensues! ... Not that kind of wank. Um. We hope?

It starts in the comments to the original post:

"I'm not trying to be adversarial here, I'm just confused. Many people seem to be upset by this, but if you were uncomfortable with the idea wouldn't it be refreshing to be able to just put on a red button to keep the annoying men away?"

"Sometimes, I like to enjoy the delusion of living in a world where what a woman has on her chest isn't the primarily important thing about her, whether it be buttons or shirts or what-have-you."

http://theferrett.livejournal.com/1087686.html?thread=54853830#t54853830

"Women's breasts are not magical devices for healing straight men's psyches. Women's bodies do not exist to make straight men feel better about themselves. Women have their own shit to deal with, and a lot of the time, that shit is us, even (sometimes especially) when we're trying to do better"

From a straight guy this time

http://theferrett.livejournal.com/1087686.html?thread=54722758#t54722758

More outrage outside the OP Re: May I grope your breasts? It's liberating!!! wank
(Anonymous)
2008-04-22 08:52 pm UTC (link)

More outrage outside the post here!

" Ah, yes, wouldn't it be wonderful if we could live in a world where some random guy I don't know can ask me, without any sort of shame, if he can grope me?

"NO, MOTHERFUCKERS. NO, IT WOULD NOT."

http://nestra.livejournal.com/256453.html

"Because the way to an egalitarian and less body-conscious utopia is for women's bodies to default to public space. We just don't have enough sexualized treatment of women as bodies instead of whole social persons in public spaces!"

Fuck you."

http://coffeeandink.livejournal.com/808826.html

"It is not assumed that you, random stranger, are entitled to take my life unless I am wearing a shirt that says, "Do not kill me.""

http://cereta.livejournal.com/476651.html

And in the comments

"Here's the bit that makes me want to purchase a tank and run some people down -- the account of the woman who reportedly said, "Are they... are they good enough to be touched?"

http://cereta.livejournal.com/476651.html?thread=8983787#t8983787

" You could be the exiled gay prince of Farlandia, cursed to wander this Earth looking for the key to his return that can only be revealed by touching the breast of a willing stranger, and who isn't enjoying this at all. You could, in short, not be a danger to me.

"But how am I supposed to know that?"

http://kate-nepveu.livejournal.com/323736.html

"What's killing me about the whole conversation is the denial of any sense of peer pressure, and the assertion that only those with buttons were even asked, yet it says IN THE POST ITSELF that the whole group approached another random congoer and asked if they could touch her breasts. Not someone who'd been present for the original conversation, not someone wearing a button, not someone who knew them, and here she is, faced with the entire group, and it doesn't matter if most of the group was women."

http://the-red-shoes.livejournal.com/1263869.html?thread=12433917#t12433917

And then, of course, revenge of the LOLs.

The open source knuckle sandwich!

"Can you imagine a situation, where you could be hanging out with a bunch of friends at a con, and you could see someone who's face was just begging to be punched, and you could say,
"Excuse me. You're very beautiful. I'd like to punch you in the face. Would you mind if I did?"

"You'd hold your breath, not wanting to offend. This could go wrong, collapsing and turning you into cruel sadists who'd make the person you'd approach feel uncomfortable and shamed of who he was....

But imagine how liberating, how freeing, how healing, when the answer comes back yes. Yes! YESSSSSSSS!"

http://hahathor.livejournal.com/120502.html

And, obviously,

The open source swift kick to the balls project

"As we all know, many women long to give a swift kick in the balls to some male person or other. Yet all too often women are prohibited from doing so.

...

"To this end, we propose a community-based Open Source Swift Kick to the Balls Project."

http://misia.livejournal.com/1055120.html

theferret responds:

http://theferrett.livejournal.com/1088382.html
http://theferrett.livejournal.com/1087686.html?thread=54911686#t54911686

FUN TIMES!

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	rowanberries 2008-04-23 12:43 am UTC (link)
	Assuming nobody else gets to it first, I'll post this up to otf_wank. I've seen enough explosion on my friend's page that it warrants a post. :S (Reply to this)(Parent)

	Comments Bahleeted! "Accidently" (Anonymous) 2008-04-22 10:09 pm UTC (link)
	Wonder if anyone got the screenshots? (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	Re: Comments Bahleeted! "Accidently" (Anonymous) 2008-04-22 11:50 pm UTC (link)
	Comments unbaleeted but frozen and screened. According to brown_betty, she got screenshots. http://brown-betty.livejournal.com/372768.html?thread=4101408#t4101408 (Reply to this)(Parent)

	Comments now unbahleeted? (Anonymous) 2008-04-22 11:02 pm UTC (link)
	Complete with confusing explanation of what happened to the comments in the first place. (Reply to this)(Parent)

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