Changing The Creepy Guy Narrative
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Changing The Creepy Guy Narrative
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#2Good man!
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#3"...wore one of those wispy skirts that always make me want to send God a fruit basket for inventing summer."
Kind of negates the whole "I'm not a sexist" take on the situation. If you're going to write about how much of a chivalrous guy you are, you should probably also be more careful with the way you describe the thin skirts that you like so much.
And the "because I'm a writer" stuff doesn't even make sense. Because he's a writer he noticed someone being creepy and intervened? I don't understand that logic at all.
It sounds more like because he's a writer he knew the word "trope" and wanted to jam it into an article.
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#5Honestly while I understand the obvious concerns, I would like to point out that the writer is doing the job of expressing emotions for all the parties involved. An important question is whether verbal communication really implies anything. What if the other guy was stoic and the fact that he himself was being bothered did not matter. What if he was a bisexual. Its important that writer wants to frame himself as hero. But from a more neutral standpoint three people had a conversation and moved on.
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#6"...wore one of those wispy skirts that always make me want to send God a fruit basket for inventing summer." Kind of negates the whole "I'm not a sexist" take on the situation. If you're going to write about how much of a chivalrous guy you are, you should probably also be more careful with the way you describe the thin skirts that you like so much. And the "because I'm a writer" stuff doesn't even make sense. Becau…
Wait, it's sexist to thank God for the physical qualities of the opposite sex?
Thank God for the physical qualities of the opposite sex. (Or evolution, whatever.)
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#7"...wore one of those wispy skirts that always make me want to send God a fruit basket for inventing summer." Kind of negates the whole "I'm not a sexist" take on the situation. If you're going to write about how much of a chivalrous guy you are, you should probably also be more careful with the way you describe the thin skirts that you like so much. And the "because I'm a writer" stuff doesn't even make sense. Becau…
Appreciating clothing that accentuates womens' bodies and being sexist aren't the same thing. But, yes, he is definitely overly enamoured of the word "trope".
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#8"...wore one of those wispy skirts that always make me want to send God a fruit basket for inventing summer." Kind of negates the whole "I'm not a sexist" take on the situation. If you're going to write about how much of a chivalrous guy you are, you should probably also be more careful with the way you describe the thin skirts that you like so much. And the "because I'm a writer" stuff doesn't even make sense. Becau…
I genuinely don't understand why this sentence is considered sexist. As a matter of fact, I am often surprised to see how people perceive sexism on HN. For example, I don't see how the douchebag in this story was sexist apart from the fact that the person he was being rude to was a woman... Is that sufficient to call him sexist? Maybe it's a cultural thing?
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#9"...wore one of those wispy skirts that always make me want to send God a fruit basket for inventing summer." Kind of negates the whole "I'm not a sexist" take on the situation. If you're going to write about how much of a chivalrous guy you are, you should probably also be more careful with the way you describe the thin skirts that you like so much. And the "because I'm a writer" stuff doesn't even make sense. Becau…
The author was saying that the woman was attractive, particularly her skirt. It's not sexist to admit to finding someone attractive.
Give it a second reading if you didn't understand the connection between being a writer and the author's interpretation of the events:
> Others might get it for other reasons, but I got it because I am a writer. I knew the tropes and the cliches and the tired old lines. I was aware of how to create a role reversal in the "typical characters."
His point is that other people might experience the situation as "someone being creepy" and someone else intervening, but that he experienced and interpreted the situation differently: in a literary context, as a reversal of cliche roles.
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#10Is it weird that when I saw the headline I thought this was going to be article about how calling a guy creepy is the same thing as slut-shaming but for males? And that this guy was going to offer up a sort of fix to the problem of inappropriately "creep-shaming" men? Instead I got a humble-brag that reinforces the creep narrative.