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is hello offensive?
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is hello offensive? A while back, there was a video from an agency who posted a woman walking through the streets of New York. The shares of the video almost always included the words "woman harassed 100 times in 10 hours" or something close, and it was attempting to demonstrate how all of the males in the universe are shallow vultures who have no interest in anything but swooping in to grab a woman and leave her for roadkill once they were done with her. It seemed like a healthy amount of the harassment was limited to someone saying "good morning" or "hello", albeit somewhat<b> creepy </font></b>in tone, i think that's a fair distance from harassment, but some others were definitely creeps. I don't want to debate the approach or the ultimate message of the video, and I understand that a colossal amount of people in the world are selfish scum who really are the type of person that the video is trying to expose. The comments from all over the internet had a pretty united message of "this happens to me all the time!" "guys are all pigs!" Unfortunately, I wonder if those people actually saw or even felt any resonance with the video when or if they watched it. One person who was affected was... me. I was one of those in school who didn't really approach the girl. Not out of fear of rejection, but out of respect that they probably had something else more important going on, and if it were to happen, it'd happen through mutual attraction; not by me pounding on the door until someone answered. I didn't think about rejection, I had the self-awareness with people that I knew once people got used to the person i was, they would like me. But the cliff was getting to the point of "hey!". Well before they would ever know what type of person I was. The "hey" moment always seemed it was a light year away from me. Ever since that video came out, I can only hope that it altered and shocked some of it's targeted audience into a sense of respect. I doubt it. For me, I know it pretty much stopped me from walking by or sharing an elevator or doing whatever in the proximity of an attractive person and feeling any comfort level in saying "oh, those are really neat boots" or "wow, that's a great color on you", or anything that if said to me would really make my day. I think it, but that thought is tackled by "nope, don't say it, that's harassment! ... or<b> creepy.</font></b>"  |
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I say it's still okay to be nice. If someone gets offended oh well. Only you know your true motives and intentions. I wished you rub a little off on me. I could be more friendly
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