What you seem to not get is that the "Morality Police" (*flashes badge*) aren't just making this shit up and unloading it on you out of some twisted sense of self-righteousness.
It's more than that. I suspect that it's a sense of self-righteousness coupled with an immense ego of the sort that makes one believe he should be acknowledged as one of the reigning experts and gets frustrated when that doesn't happen. Add to that the transparently self-serving desire to minimize competition by labeling other guys as creepy while at the same time making it clear to any women who might be listening that he is sooo above that sort of thing.
I listen to women talking about this stuff all the time. They're they ones who find this behavior creepy
So why is it always YOU flashing your badge? Do you fancy yourself as their champion?
I've talked to several women about this very thing too. In fact, I've shown this thread to three of them, and asked them what they thought of your comments in particular. Without fail, every one of them shook their heads and rolled their eyes. One of them said, "Look at this guy. He really thinks he's the expert on women. Yeah, right. The only ass a guy like that will ever get is when his fingers break through the toilet paper." The others laughed and agreed.
and since most of us ticklephiles are hetero, it kinda behooves you to, y'know, not creep out the people who you would otherwise want to interact with.
It's never been a problem for me.
Funny thing is, you like to keep calling Rhiannon out by name but she's not the only woman who feels this way.
Rhiannon is always at the forefront of any discussion involving the right and wrong of tickling. You are a close second.
But, naturally, women are just a means to an end to the kind of people who would sneak around with a video camera so who gives a fuck what they think.
Hate to have to bring you up to date with current events, but most anybody who carries a smart phone is "sneaking around with a video camera." You might want to tone down your self-righteous rhetoric there, Pastor Piety.
Most of the women I know in this community just got tired of speaking up and don't bother to keep telling the creep that he's creepy because he's ready with a long litany on how she's wrong.
That's your problem. Most of the women you know are from this one community. You act like these are the only women that matter. There's a big wide world full of women who love tickling that have never heard of the TMF.
I know a lot of people who used to be members of this community, and don't participate here anymore... and they weren't driven off by the "Morality Police". They got tired of interacting with socially stunted fuckwads who kept banging on about their God-given right to put their hands on anyone they pleased and to hell with whether or not that anyone wanted them to. The women, especially. I don't know a single tickle-fetish-oriented woman who enjoys coming here. Even the ones who run the west coast gatherings stay away except to post event news. That should tell you something, right there.
What it tells ME is that they're tired of interacting with those whose social development parallels most sixth graders, who (in their utterly pathetic attempts to ingratiate themselves to women) continually beat their chest telling everybody and their brother how to act, and losing their tempers when their "sage advice" isn't heeded.
'sides. If they're truly the silent majority, how do you know it's YOU they agree with?
Because many have told me so, that's how. Many have PM'd and/or emailed me. They tell me things like, "DAJT, why do you waste your energy arguing with those self-righteous assholes? We're both going to continue to do what we do. Fuck them and anybody who looks like them."
To which I usually reply,"I hear what you're saying but I have my reasons."
Kinda like how you and coldneck show up every time this topic comes up?
Kind of like the way you and Rhiannon show up every time this topic comes up?
I don't think anyone should be made to feel bad for how active or inactive they are within the community. There is an etiquette that has to be followed when at such gatherings, an etiquette that you'd think would be obvious, but unfortunately, due to creepy people that don't understand that social norms still exist in a gathering setting, an etiquette needs to put in place, explained to death, etc.
Well, a gathering is different from just being out in public. I've never advocated anybody to disregard the rules that you agree to in order to attend the event. Those who hold the gatherings and set behavioral standards for these events aren't the morality police. The morality police tell you how you're supposed to behave out in bars, shopping malls, walking down the street, at an amusement park, etc.
If the gatherer says no candid photos or videos, and no unsolicited touching, I'd naturally oblige. Because my invitation to the event is contingent on my agreeing to those terms. Out on America's streets, I've made no such agreement except to obey the law.
You could argue that a dude at a gathering jacking off in the corner doesn't hurt anyone either, but if he was jacking off to the girlfriend you brought with, would you still be saying the same thing?
You've clearly got way more experience with gatherings than I do. I would think that the idea to whip it out and start pounding away would be precluded by the rules and guidelines to which one would be oblidged to agree in order to receive an invitation.
Assuming that's not the case, I'd have to say his "offbeat behavior" would be regarded by me as inappropriate, regardless of who's going through his mind at that particular instance.
But lets remember this thread is about taking pictures of feet and posting them here. That's quite a difference from unleashing the one-eyed trouser trout at a gathering.
