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Originally Posted by happy_doughnut
And what does decency have to do with being "stupidly overly sentisitive?"
Maybe I'm one of those sensitive people, but I know plenty of others that aren't and they get just as offended by these overly rude remarks, if not more. Maybe not to some, but to others, these things, when they occur with little distance apart, are shameful.
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Seeing as you picked up on one of my statements, please allow my retort. There are comments which should not be made. I can perfectly understand if you would be offended if you were called a "sexy little minx" or something like that. However, if a woman is offended by being called "love", "sweetheart" or "babe" then I'm sorry but it is over-sensitive. These are terms of endearment that are used by both sexes frequently.
In many shops the asisstants will refer to me as "love" - there's one girl who works in the local McD's who refers to people as "babe".
I totally agree with you 100% that certain actions are not to be tolerated and can be deemed offensive, but some actions and words are nothing more than a way of life. I don't know about where you live, but here in the North of England the word "love" is used all the time by people, irrespecitve of sex.
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Originally Posted by happy_doughnut
So in essence, I was not only talking about women, but about a person in general. It just so happens that it a lot easier to identify this subject in correlation with women, be it fair or unfair.
That and because of what happened yesterday, I felt quite bad, and I was looking to see that you guys would understand, as that would have been comforting, but I guess not.
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The problem was you titled the post "Women are not meat" and then bashed the male of the species. You can't expect us to not respond. If you'd have told us about your experience in a different way I'm sure you would have had everyone offer their support - but unfortunately your words when read looked like a rip on men.
I think you'll find, in essence we all agree that there is no place for certain behaviours irrespective of sex.
- S