It has only just occurred to me that my experience on something may be atypical. Men: Do you have experiences of women being bad at consent/boundaries in slightly creepy ways? e.g. touching you more than welcome. Anything where gender swapped version would be obviously creepy.
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Replying to @GeniesLoki
I can't remember the specifics off-hand (which is
) but I'm pretty sure it's happened. I think me being big and brown particularly makes some women feel like I couldn't possibly have any issues with them touching me1 reply 0 retweets 12 likes -
Replying to @visakanv @GeniesLoki
I find myself instinctively wanting to say "it's not that I minded or anything", which is probably more true than not, but also, this instinct itself is also
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Yeah, I feel like this is very much a thing that men are "supposed" to sort of laugh off.
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And I guess a lot of the time it's genuinely not a big deal, but sometimes it is. Of the incidents I have in mind almost all were NBD but one I was genuinely upset about it and have modified my behaviour accordingly to avoid that situation in future.
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Both in the sense of treating the woman in question as intrinsically unsafe and also I'm never going to render myself that incapable of meaningful consent again unless I 100% trust everyone I'm doing it with. It didn't go as far as that makes it sound, but it was very unsettling.
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