jrjones9933 wrote:
It never occurred to me that someone would start a thread asking whether a person in a photo was asking to be raped, because no one would ever ask for that and the question would make no sense. I assumed it meant asking for attention, despite the obvious association of the phrase with rape. I know that there are people who believe that nonsense about wanting rape, but I just never expect to encounter them no matter how often I actually encounter them. I have to keep up some illusions, or I'd never leave the house.
If someone dresses like that, I wouldn't want to make her feel uncomfortable. In part because no one deserves to be made to feel uncomfortable about harmless actions like how they dress, and in part because I'd have a happier life if more people dressed that attractively. I might have a harder time suppressing any overt reaction to the way the motorcycle guy is dressed, but he also doesn't deserve to be made to feel uncomfortable.
Rape culture is a thing, but you can't ask aspies a vague question and then characterize their answers as being in response to a specific question. It doesn't make sense to do that to anyone, but especially aspies. Wanting to make a question or a response be about your hot-button issue is normal, but not really rational.
Eh?
I have absolutely no idea what you are talking about, specially the bold bit.
Life is all about vagueness and aspies are all about not getting the fact that others are different to themselves. Ergo - confusion is inevitable.
On the other hand, aspies are just people too with probably the same prejudices in a lot of cases just as everyone else. So, this is what I was interested in. And the thread proved me right - look at just how many interpretations there are - as many as there are people.
Personally, it aggravates me to be seen differently and treated differently depending on how I am dressed, but it seems it's such an automatic response that most cannot even catch the moment before they do it to notice, let alone stop themselves and change course.
Anyway, there is no need for hostility. Sometimes, threads are about having a conversation for the sake of the experience, not for the sake of proving anyone's point.