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[andrewducker]

[Poll #1222205]
You may not already know this - but you can edit the entries you've done by clicking on the poll header above and then selecting "fill out poll". Sadly, you can't remove your existence from the poll. Oh - if you click on "submit poll" without actually selecting anything then you can see the results. Just don't fill anything in if you're a man. Unless you really _do_ want to trumpet your incompetence to the world.

This was inspired by the comments here and here about why some women get hassled more than others.

Also, I'd like to thank pizza.maircrosoft.com for summing up my argument terribly concisely here with the words:
There are so many, many people who make off-colour jokes that align them with the obnoxious men to their listeners, even if /they/ know they'd never actually do X, Y, Z. - which was exactly what I meant - because I work quite hard to make sure that I'm not being lumped in with those people.

(and that gets rid of the last five emails I've had sitting there since the 4th, waiting for me to do _something_ with them.)

Comments

[roadnotes.livejournal.com]

I have to disagree. Granted, in my case, it's because of race, size, hairstyle, and good posture -- I walk as if I'm entitled to one person's worth of space on the street, and that evidently signals that I should be hassled -- but in the city, a lot of men hassle women just because they can, as far as I can tell.

(I have to admit that when someone tells me I'm bald, I am torn between laughing hysterically -- do you think I haven't noticed that when I shave my head, I become bald -- or hysterically screaming, "Oh my god! Someone done snatched me baldheaded!" But I'm no help.)

[autodidactic.livejournal.com]

"Oh my god! Someone done snatched me baldheaded!"

LOL

[xavienne.livejournal.com]

"Oh my god! Someone done snatched me baldheaded!"

Oh, oh, I wish I could be there when you decide to say that. *grins*