Comfort Eagle
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You guys are aware I'm taking the piss out of people that ask that question and am not genuinely curious as to whether or not Massa has a tickleboner, yaw?
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Congressman Who Quit Says He Had Tickle Fights
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kucheeku
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The married Massa lived in a house with five other male staffers. He is the employer, they are the employees. He admitted to groping one of his staffers and had a complaint against him that he made verbal sexual advances to a staffer, which he also admitted to. Sexual harassment, period.
Think about this: if all of this involved staffers who were female, how innocent would this "play" be received?
Oh, and once again, we have a m/m tickling incident bringing out the "oh, woe, how I wish it were a female being tickled" in a few of you out there pretending to "contribute" to a community, as though the tabloid approach of the Massa story in the media isn't already discouraging guys into m/m tickling to stay silent. Nice going. Why not just join the two homophobic morning DJs who think m/m tickling is icky but f/f tickling is completely okay and start up a new radio station with the call letters AHOL or perhaps DBAG?
Isn't if funny it seems to me like the same individuals' repeated behavior? Hmmm. Closet anyone?
kucheeku
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Wrote this in another board when a guy into m/m tickling was upset about how that was being treated and another wondered what the big fuss was all about:
"Massa was not just a co-worker playing around with a bunch of guys. He was a Congressman and he groped and made verbal sexual advances to at least one of his staffers, his employees. That's sexual harassment, no doubt about it. The mentioning of tickle fights and massages, etc. are all fodder for a media that loves tabloid material, but it's only a smoke screen that doesn't divert from the fact that he broke the law.
The point made in Charles Blow's article is a good one. Just picture this: what if the married Massa were a CEO of a company and he lived in a house with five employees, all female. And what if, once in a while, he would engage in tickle fights, grope and made verbal sexual advances to one of them? He would and should see the inside of a courthouse pretty damn fast.
About the comedy bits: watch them very carefully. They do not stray from the idea that this was done between an employer and his employees. That's the main point. Is there some undercurrent of homophobia involved? No doubt. The discomfort of closeness between males is going to be a source for comedy until this society has a change in psyche about that. So...
Best thing you can do is to be open about your enjoyment of tickling with people who are very close to you concerning it without apologies and with confidence. I've done so with a few of my non-gay, non-tickling friends and they've rewarded me with being even closer to me than ever before. Of course, choosing who you tell will be very important. If you have any indication that your friend will freak out with his/her discovery, you'll have to decide whether that friend will be a lifelong one.
True friends appreciate honesty, regardless of gender, regardless of orientation. They'll appreciate your openness to them even if they disagree or never engage you in tickling activities.
Some of us have said before that if you feel your love of tickling is somehow an addiction or unpleasant, you should think about it and take action to have control of your life. If, however, you've been able to integrate a love of tickling into a relatively-normal and functioning life, all power to you, because you are not Eric Massa."
"Massa was not just a co-worker playing around with a bunch of guys. He was a Congressman and he groped and made verbal sexual advances to at least one of his staffers, his employees. That's sexual harassment, no doubt about it. The mentioning of tickle fights and massages, etc. are all fodder for a media that loves tabloid material, but it's only a smoke screen that doesn't divert from the fact that he broke the law.
The point made in Charles Blow's article is a good one. Just picture this: what if the married Massa were a CEO of a company and he lived in a house with five employees, all female. And what if, once in a while, he would engage in tickle fights, grope and made verbal sexual advances to one of them? He would and should see the inside of a courthouse pretty damn fast.
About the comedy bits: watch them very carefully. They do not stray from the idea that this was done between an employer and his employees. That's the main point. Is there some undercurrent of homophobia involved? No doubt. The discomfort of closeness between males is going to be a source for comedy until this society has a change in psyche about that. So...
Best thing you can do is to be open about your enjoyment of tickling with people who are very close to you concerning it without apologies and with confidence. I've done so with a few of my non-gay, non-tickling friends and they've rewarded me with being even closer to me than ever before. Of course, choosing who you tell will be very important. If you have any indication that your friend will freak out with his/her discovery, you'll have to decide whether that friend will be a lifelong one.
True friends appreciate honesty, regardless of gender, regardless of orientation. They'll appreciate your openness to them even if they disagree or never engage you in tickling activities.
Some of us have said before that if you feel your love of tickling is somehow an addiction or unpleasant, you should think about it and take action to have control of your life. If, however, you've been able to integrate a love of tickling into a relatively-normal and functioning life, all power to you, because you are not Eric Massa."
