feminism attacking WWII sailor kissing nurse picture

[QUOTE="harashawn"]Sure, it's better to ask. Do you ask a girl, "Can I kiss you?" every time before you kiss her?bloodling

So now you're saying that every time a guy kisses a girl, it's okay, unless the girl objects after the fact? Then it makes it wrong? How is a guy supposed to predict that?

[QUOTE="bloodling"]

But if you don't object to it, it doesn't make it right. The person's reaction has absolutely no influence on whether or not it's right. A person's act isn't judged on how the victim reacts after the act...

harashawn

It's not about how someone feels, it's about the context. How someone feels and in what context the act was committed are two completely different things.

[QUOTE="harashawn"][QUOTE="bloodling"]

But if you don't object to it, it doesn't make it right. The person's reaction has absolutely no influence on whether or not it's right. A person's act isn't judged on how the victim reacts after the act...

bloodling

It's not about how someone feels, it's about the context. How someone feels and in what context the act was committed are two completely different things.

[QUOTE="harashawn"]Sure, it's better to ask. Do you ask a girl, "Can I kiss you?" every time before you kiss her?bloodling

So now you're saying that every time a guy kisses a girl, it's okay, unless the girl objects after the fact? Then it makes it wrong? How is a guy supposed to predict that?

[QUOTE="bloodling"]

[QUOTE="harashawn"] Yes, it absolutely is. Assault is only assault if the victim feels threatened, battery is only battery if contact is unwanted, theft is only theft if the victim feels there has been a loss. It is absolutely judged on how the victim reacts, and there is no argument which can be made against that fact.harashawn

It's not about how someone feels, it's about the context. How someone feels and in what context the act was committed are two completely different things.

Yes it does, which is probably why you got confused.

Yes it does, which is probably why you got confused.bloodling

[QUOTE="bloodling"]Yes it does, which is probably why you got confused.harashawn

Well either way, it's about the context, not the victim's reaction. And even if the context seemed right for one person, it doesn't mean that the context justifies the act for the other person, so it doesn't make it right or wrong, only more or less acceptable.

Also it probably wasn't as socially unacceptable to kiss a girl like that back then. This is a famous kiss scene in 1939 classic "Gone with the Wind." No doubt one of the most popular movies of that era.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=74kz5K70iAo

It's a stupid comparison to begin with. The act of theft is theft on it's own...taking something that's not yours from another person without consent is theft. The act of kissing is not a crime or sexual assault on it's own...it's only sexual assault when the other person feels violated and the kissing is unwanted.

In this particular case, the woman had no problem with it. As already linked to, she actually was fine with it to the point where they are actually still in touch and send each other holiday cards.

If she didn't consider it sexual assualt and didn't mind, why the heck are your panties in a twist over it?

It's a stupid comparison to begin with. The act of theft is theft on it's own...taking something that's not yours from another person without consent is theft. The act of kissing is not a crime or sexual assault on it's own...it's only sexual assault when the other person feels violated and the kissing is unwanted.

In this particular case, the woman had no problem with it. As already linked to, she actually was fine with it to the point where they are actually still in touch and send each other holiday cards.

If she didn't consider it sexual assualt and didn't mind, why the heck are your panties in a twist over it?

Renevent42

The act of kissing is not a crime or sexual assault on it's own...it's only sexual assault when the other person feels violated and the kissing is unwanted.

Renevent42

It's about what a person does, how exactly he does it and in what context he does it. It has nothing to do with the personal feelings of the person who is the victim. Someone might get assaulted and not care for some reason or just choose to ignore it, but that doesn't mean she wasn't assaulted. If she gave consent, then obviously that's different.

We can argue semantics as to how severe of an assault the word rape means but the nurse was in fact assaulted.

I don't think anyone has a right to forceably kiss a random woman on the street.

Blue-Sky

They were soldiers? It's important not to blow this out of proportion in the name of independence.

Leave it to feminists to be almost 70 years late to the party.Zeviander

I think the feminazis are just pissed that guy helped kill their boy Hilter and that they will never be kissed like that.

Feminist are a jelous bunch, so they try to demonize women who are more desireable than them, or maybe in an idiotic way. Try super hard to make them look like some victim even when they say themselves they are not.

Feminist are a jelous bunch, so they try to demonize women who are more desireable than them, or maybe in an idiotic way. Try super hard to make them look like some victim even when they say themselves they are not.

mahlasor

Haha, what? The lack of understanding about feminism in this thread is...astounding. Wow.Lockedge

Pretty astounding stuff bro.

I'm astounded.

Radicals ruin everything, but just because a few crazies jump on this doesn't mean we should condemn all feminists. Women's rights is still a big deal.