Commuting in a short dress - Recommended!

[srw]

The humour was started by a female and other females contributed .. seriously - were the first page of comments that bad or do they now look bad because of the way they have discussed afterwards? Was the OP offended ?

its only a get out of jail card if its hiding something which I don't think it was.

Yes, they were that bad. Bad enough that despite being a very shaggy dog with all the privileges the world can throw at me I shut away the thread until I spotted some intelligent people contributing. Arguably I should have stepped in earlier - and frankly it's utterly irrelevant whether the OP was offended.

 

[BrumJim]

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A woman once commented on my legs when I was at traffic lights. It felt good. If I had to put up with men talking to my chest or commenting on my appearance above my personality on a daily basis I don't imagine I'd be so happy.
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In legs Vs personality, I'm afraid your legs win every time.

 

[theclaud]

Nope. It's happened to me too. I'll often hold doors open but have been told (once) I was sexist for doing so. Unfortunately, I was so flabbergasted at the time I didn’t have time to argue.

I should point out that I'll hold doors open for either sex, and am more than happy to go through a door being help open for me by a woman. It's not a sexist thing, it's just a politeness thing.

OK - a proposition for you. The Significance of Opening Doors looms larger in the consciousness of anti-feminists than it does in that of feminists. For me, it's a non-issue, a red herring, an irrelevance. The repeated invocation of The Opening Doors Question (which isn't much of a question at all) is essentially a bolstering of the flimsiest kind of masculinities and an attempt to trivialise serious feminist concerns.

 

[Little yellow Brompton]

Sean Yates' legs look very similar but yes those are George's legs.

But why?

 

[Angelfishsolo]

But why?

Bust veins/blood v's I believe.

 

[Dayvo]

But why?

He swallowed his shoe laces.

Varicose veins: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Varicose_veins

 

[Mad at urage]

Ah! The old Opening Doors chestnut! I nearly incorporated that into my previous post but thought it wouldn't be necessary. Forgive my questioning the detail of your story, but is for real? I ask because I consider myself a radical feminist and I have yet to meet any woman who actually gets offended by a man happening to hold a door open for her, or one who imports to it an "ulterior motive". Some men go to slightly absurd lengths to be seen to be opening doors for women, and this can be a bit patronising, but it's hardly up there with the major feminist issues of our time. I think of it as a bit of a myth (the function of which is to associate claims to equality with absurd demands), along the same lines as councils banning Christmas and hypothetical people being offended by manhole covers.

Yes it is for real, it happened. I was a surprised as you seem to be because this was a rational person who I'd long known and the incident was out of place.

It's not the only time I've been 'told off' for holding a door open though - that happens, even when I've been holding it for the past n people (of mixed ages and sexes). Whether you think it a myth or not, I'm afraid it's just one of the things we males have to deal with .

 

[Dayvo]

And not for the squeamish: Sean Yates' legs - http://www.google.co.uk/imgres?q=se...rt=80&ndsp=11&ved=1t:429,r:6,s:80&tx=97&ty=88

 

[Rob3rt]

Varicose veins are grim!

 

[Dan B]

+1 for "asking people to think a bit more before posting mindless twaddle".

It's a nice idea, but it'd be even better to think a bit more instead of posting mindless twaddle ;-)

 

[Fnaar]

I thought this was going to be like a resurrection of the "girls in lycra shorts" thread

 

[Rob3rt]

I do recall somewhere seeing a mention cycling specific skirts!

 

[Mad at urage]

Errr excuse me? When I'm asking people to think a bit more before posting mindless twaddle you're saying I have issues? That is one hell of a momentous jump.

I don't know whether you have issues (and frankly it doesn't interest me) but you could consider whether you were worried about simple "I'd like a picture of that" comments. As I said, no-one was threatened in this thread, no-one assaulted, no-one put in fear of a stalker.

IME internet forums are places where people post mindless twaddle a lot. Usually I find the best thing to do is ignore it YMMV.

 

[Angelfishsolo]

I don't know whether you have issues (and frankly it doesn't interest me) but you could consider whether you were worried about simple "I'd like a picture of that" comments. As I said, no-one was threatened in this thread, no-one assaulted, no-one put in fear of a stalker.

IME internet forums are places where people post mindless twaddle a lot. Usually I find the best thing to do is ignore it YMMV.

 

[YahudaMoon]

This is still my favourite post at the moment