Posted on 09/21/2016 10:25:05 AM PDT by C19fan
When I was in my early 30s, I practiced yoga at a studio in my neighborhood in Brooklyn. On most days, I walked there with two good friends — one who was in her 20s and one about my age — but occasionally we each got to class on our own. There was construction site across the street as part of the growing onslaught of gentrification in the neighborhood. My friends would often complain about being harassed and catcalled by the construction workers — even more so when they wore their yoga clothes. I passed the site day after day without incident.
When I was younger, in my 20s, I was a thin, slight woman. I have also always been beautiful and a nice dresser. I also happen to have cerebral palsy, which affects my motor skills, balance and speech, as it does with most people who have it. It is typically caused by damage to or malformation of the brain during birth or infancy. In my case, my mother’s umbilical cord was wrapped around my neck in utero. As my mother was unable to have an emergency cesarean section, I was strangled by the cord, and born clinically dead. The temporary lack of oxygen caused damage to a portion of my brain.
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No I thought you were dead Snake comments??? :)
“Atlanta is the polar opposite. I went to a place for business lunch and got so many looks I checked to see if my fly was open.”
Atlanta has a large gay male population, so if a woman perceives that you are straight and you are passably attractive, you will receive attention.
DC is even better for straight men, or at least it was when I was younger and single. The usual social rules were reversed, with women buying the drinks and asking men to dance. And I was not exactly a Jon Hamm look-alike.
“Women complain if men pay attention to them or dont pay attention to them.”
A female friend once told me that the only thing worse than getting catcalls from construction workers is not getting them.
Summary: she’s a victim because unlike other women, no on harasses her.
Leftists and post-modern secularists have created a bizarre world where anything they can imagine becomes virtual-reality.
That’s the irony. I experimented with being a jerk to women in college. They mostly responded positively! Then I’d revert to respectful after a few dates, and they’d lose interest.
Unfortunately (for my dating life), I’m respectful by nature. Also how I was raised.
Howie Long, Gilbert Godrey. To quote a great sage of our time, at this point, what difference does it make? Look, I am no Adonis. I am no Casanova, but I did okay. I knew a guy whose face was terribly pitted from acne. He compensated by becoming a joke machine gun. Pretty funny guy (almost the point of irritation). He got over. You work with what you got. And always remember, the mind is the most important sexual organ. This works for woman too. Most of us have to be creative, because most of us are not Robert Redford.
BOP! BOP! BOP! BOP! - NO! ACTING LIKE AN A-HOLE IS NOT
NICE! - WHACK! WHACK! WHACK!
TWINKIE SAYS, “STOP IT!”
Remember the movie the Italian job? Handsome Rob was bald. If women aren’t looking at you, it’s not because you’re bald
“I have also always been beautiful and a nice dresser”
Modest and humble too. /s/
So those sexist animals aren’t being sexist to her because she’s disabled? And this is a bad thing? Huh?
Leftist and feminists so despise Christian morality and guidelines on behavior, and have so "deconstructed" traditional society that they have left a nuclear-wasteland in its place. Having destroyed all rules for behavior, they find in their wasteland that they need to worry about the same things every other generation has had to deal with - the opposite sex, self-respect, companionship, mating, child-rearing, rape, violence, etc..
So they take the same themes of traditional Christian Morality, but recreate them as a Frankenstein, bastardized, half-broken, politically correct version of the same.
“I’d revert to respectful after a few dates, and they’d lose interest”
I’ve seen similar behavior from females when I was younger. IMO there is something wrong with anyone who responds positively to being treated bad.
Ping...this is a brilliant post!
OMG, I would so love to sit down and discuss this over coffee with you! I can’t even begin to tell you how your words resonate with me!
Telly Savalas made a career from being bald.
Yes, I wonder how this kids will fare when they grow up with the Uber Lib Parents, will they shake off the indoctrination just to spite them? Or will it be permanent.
What does your Hubby think about these types of gals and how they raise their kids?
It depends on one’s temperament. Some people love
to be noticed and the center of attention and some people don’t.
I see no indication that she views herself as a feminist either.
Thus I think you are seeing it from just the opposite point of view she was trying to convey. At least that is my take on it.
Sorry to hear your stare factor has been so low, but catcalls directed at you are a lot more fun and rewarding anyway, LOL.
Moved there from DC. Met a former buddy for a drink after work at one of his recommended watering holes. Met him there and asked what are you drinking. He said, don't be so quick. In less than 5 minutes two women showed up and struck up a conversation. They asked us what we were having! I was a bit dumbfounded. After a longer conversation infused with alcohol I asked why are you buying drinks. Her answer, it is hard to find straight men here and when we find two we think we hit the jackpot!! We dated for awhile.
He’s often talking about the way society places single moms on a pedestal as if they’re a role model. They’re boys are more likely to be gay, their girls are more likely to end up divorced, and these women end up being sad and lonely.
Sadly, more than a few of my old friends are heading that way.
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