I agree completely with the OP

Another thing that pisses me the hell off that in America people act like having guns is a privilege instead of a right. People act like any kind of gun control is bad ugh

I think you missed the entire point of that woman's story. She just wanted once in her life for someone to stare at her legs or whistle just once whereas you say yourself you get whistled at or hit on quite a bit. She just wants to be you once, that's not so hard to understand.

But it's still sad, unhealthy and frankly, delusional. It's another example of someone thinking that "if only I got x my life would be great." That's exactly the kind of thinking that led this lunatic to behave the way he did. Also, mean as it may be to say, that woman's loneliness probably has a lot more to do with her evident self-esteem issues than she would want to admit. Just like this shooter. He didn't go crazy because women wouldn't pay attention to him. Women wouldn't pay attention to him because he was crazy.

I just realized that this shooting really didn't affect me at all. Usually I get upset and google more about it, but this time I just saw the headline and looked away. It's not that I don't care, I'm just so used to it.

A few weeks ago, my school went on lockdown because a few teachers heard two loud bangs that sounded like gunshots. It turns out it was just a building exploding, but everyone was terrified because they just assumed it was shooter.

This is off topic, but I just find it so ridiculous how Americans are so used to shootings it's common now. The Democrats talk but they really aren't doing [!@#$%^&*]. The mental health laws continue to be [!@#$%^&*]. Idk what is wrong with this country, but this needs to stop.

People blaming women are so stupid. But girls are raised by society and the school system to not wear bikinis, short shorts, and tank tops. Yet, if a boy wears a tank top to school and is shirtless on a school field trip, nobody cares. Why don't we raise boys to be horny animals instead of raising women to be scared of them.

I'm sorry, but I'm so disgusted with the people basically blaming women and saying its women's fault because they should have just sucked it up and gone out at least once with this creep. I'm not really shocked though. It happens everyday to probably every woman. Just from my experience, where I work, there's an almost 50 year old man who comes to do business with my office sometimes. I'm 27 and he knows I have a boyfriend yet he hits on me, make sexually suggestive comments about how "pretty I am", and asks me out every single time he comes round. Every. Time. When I've complained, I've been told to "just ignore him" (almost impossible), "go out with him so he'll leave me alone" (he should have taken no the first time and left me alone), or "I'm overreacting". He was at a meeting we had today and him and I were alone in the room beforehand for maybe under a minute and it was possibly one of the lost uncomfortable moments of my life. Just ugh.

This is sadly just one example because usually not a day goes by that I'm not whistled at, stared at, or hit on.

Imagine if you were the one flirting with him. Your ass would be out ASAP and you'd be labeled as a whore. But boys will be boys, right?

That poster probably agrees with these bottom feeding trolls.

I feel physically sick reading this.

It took some time for this to really set in for me because at first I thought surely I misread your post. Surely nobody would post this on the internet, let alone even think it. But now that it's settled in, let me just start in with a big old what in the actual [!@#$%^&*]? Posts, sentiments, and thought processes like this can easily be labeled the common denominator for the problems in our society. It's certainly easy to understand that there are people who *wish* they would get noticed, get attention, etc. But to imply that women who are every day subjected to sexual harassment of varying degrees should suck it up and accept it because "everyone else isn't as lucky"? Not only is that incredibly stupid and offensive - it's an incredibly dangerous way to think. It's one thing to sympathize or empathize with an individual who lacks self esteem and wants to be noticed. But to diminish the reality and severity of sexual harassment that way is downright wrong, on every level. To suggest that women should be grateful for unwanted gestures, touching, advances, etc. is ludicrous and insulting to the thousands of women who have been raped or assaulted in any way. Perpetuating on ANY level that a woman is at all to blame for such occurrences is beyond idiotic. This whole concept that you've portrayed is literally so offensive and ignorant that it hurts my feelings. But what would we expect from the man who thinks college education is a waste of time and thinks Trayvon Martin deserved what he got for daring to be a young man in a hoodie.

I didn't say one damn thing about touching. I was talking about men looking, whistling, or complimenting women on their looks. One never touches without permission, nothing wrong with lookin, nothing wrong with paying a compliment, and if someone whistles, so what? Big deal? Be glad you ain't so damn ugly that nobody gives you the time of day. And yes, a college education is a waste of time for people in certain fields. Mine being one of them. Your mileage my vary. this coming from you all who drool over soap stars all the damn time, right here on this board. So it's ok if you whistle at somebody through a computer screen?

Edited May 31, 201411 yr by alphanguy74