Posted on 10/29/2013 11:10:52 AM PDT by Borges
It was my least favorite part of being pregnant, hands down: Family, friends, even strangers felt the need to pat, rub or touch my expanding belly without asking permission.
I cracked up every time. What is it about a pregnant woman's belly that makes the common sense rules of personal space fly out the window?
A bother? Yes. A pet peeve? Sure. But an illegal offense?
(Excerpt) Read more at cnn.com ...
All pregnant women need to concealed carry..... this issue would quickly go away....
I can relate. Total strangers have grabbed at me in the past and anymore I just fend them off if I see them coming. No idea why people think they’re entitled to touch me when I’m pregnant when they’d never do this if I weren’t.
Touch a pregnant woman? I don’t even ASK if a woman is preggers,
unless I can actually see the head crowning.
Touching a pregnant woman's belly was always a sort of affectionate sign of support and shared joy of the impending birth of a child. And why do Liberals care anyway other than it gives them one more thing to whine about. Most don't want to carry a child to term anyway so they won't have to worry about this.
Just one more sign our society is turning sour.
Oh boy, are liberals now so stupid we have to explain this to them?
That said, back in the stone age 50's and 60's, when my mom and her friends were having kids, I don't remember people doing this. It seems to have come into vogue with New Age, Alan Alda, Dr. Phil era. Except for my wife, I would never rub a pregnant woman's belly without permission. But I can't see charging someone with a crime unless they are a stranger creeping out a lady.
There is a universal legal defense.
Just say you’re an abortionist.
Back in the day if someone laid hands on a woman, pregnant or not, he'd have to answer to the husband.
Now women aren't property any more. Or maybe they are? Community property. And a village has a lot of hands.
So touching an elbow or thigh is ok?
See, years ago I did that once with a friend of my wife—”Pregnant huh? That’s great!”—and I rubbed her tummy.
She wasn’t. She wasn’t happy. No one was happy.
I never did this. But I love their little hands and tiny fingers.
Community property it seems like, some women want to be dog parks apparently
The maternity clothes worn these days are also much different than what women wore just a generation ago, when it wasn’t really too classy to wear skin-tight knits that showed every skin cell on the baby belly.
Is it still legal if you don’t know they’re pregnant?
My daughter and family, came to visit, I hadn't seen her in almost a year. I asked her, in all innocency, "Are you pregnant again"? Boy did I ever touch off a fire storm. She said, "NO, I'M NOT PREGNANT, I'M JUST GETTING FAT"
All caps, because she said it in all caps.
What kind of creepy moron rubs a stranger’s belly anyway?
I do!
What kind of reclusive socially-awkward freak DOESN'T???
I just don't understand this concept. I love to rub, and rub, and rub ANY and EVERY women's pregnant belly, murmuring something about 'tasty snack' and 'lots of protein' the entire time.
ROTFLMAO! Laz, you da man!
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