• BeardedGingerWonder@feddit.uk
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    3 hours ago

    I’m curious about your shoe example. I would feel perfectly comfortable complimenting someone’s shoes and asking about them, for example:

    “I love your shoes, those stripes on the side are funky, where did you get them?” Seems like a relatively normal conversation.

    However, “I love your tits, the way your nips poke out is awesome, were you born with them?” Seems inappropriate.

    Do you not see any distinction here?

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      2 hours ago

      Well, yeah. Complimenting someones biceps is also a fairly normal thing to do. But not breasts One is sexual. The other is not. The more sexual the compliment gets the more inappropriate. Further reinforcing the point that breasts are sexual.

      Of course everyone knows they are sexual. Making this whole dance around the subject a bit ridiculous.

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        1 hour ago

        I’m not really sure what point you’re trying to make, staring at someone’s bicep is also creepy. No-one’s saying “you may not ever look at breasts” the staring is the issue.