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‘It’s tough for me to know where the line is’: The #MeToo era is making dating more confusing
Washington Post ^ | February 13, 2018 | Lisa Bonos

Posted on 02/14/2018 2:08:30 AM PST by C19fan

Over the summer, Geoffrey Knight is in bed with a woman he is dating. He puts his hand on her breast, and she swats it away. “You need to ask before you touch me,” he recalls her saying. Knight apologizes, saying he had assumed it was okay because they had just had sex. “You should never make that assumption,” she retorts. Flash-forward a few months, and Knight, a 25-year-old Washingtonian, is sleeping with someone new. He is asking “Can I touch you here?” “Can I do this?” every step of the way, and his partner wants to know what is with all the questions. She prefers a more proactive approach.

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KEYWORDS: dating; metoo
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To: wastoute

It really is a shame; I wish him the best!


41 posted on 02/14/2018 4:08:30 AM PST by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
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To: Ambrosia

I should have been more clear: These are women here legally (and permanently) - sometimes full citizens; they just don’t come from the secular Western culture. The “mail-order bride” route is risky.


42 posted on 02/14/2018 4:10:22 AM PST by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
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To: C19fan

If it was me, I would have silently put my pants on and left.

If it was my bed, I’d have to raise a scene shooing her out. But in either case, remove myself from her.


43 posted on 02/14/2018 4:13:16 AM PST by Alas Babylon! (Keep fighting the Left and their Fake News!)
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To: kearnyirish2; KC Burke

I do think down the road we will se a place where 40 year old guys will be marrying 20 year old women and there will be an entire generation of “cat ladies” who will gradually die out and the “impact they (thought) were making on society” will diminish to a curious episode in history.

I don’t think my son is unusual. He loves children and you should see him with his nieces and nephews. He can get down and push trucks around until they are tired of it. He has had a couple girl friends with kids but the relationships don’t last after they realize he likes the kids but has learned why they are “ex-wives”. He has just learned he doesn’t have to put up with crazy.


44 posted on 02/14/2018 4:14:07 AM PST by wastoute (Government cannot redistribute wealth. Government can only redistribute poverty.)
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To: C19fan

He puts his hand on her breast, and she swats it away. “You need to ask before you touch me,” he recalls her saying. Knight apologizes, saying he had assumed it was okay because they had just had sex. “You should never make that assumption,” she retorts


If a woman ever did that to me, I’d immediately pick up my stuff and leave. Or, if it was my place, ask her to leave. If she tried to contact me, I’d ghost her.

If more guys did that, after a few such incidents, she’d either get the hint or go lesbo.


45 posted on 02/14/2018 4:22:54 AM PST by rbg81 (Truth is stranger than fiction)
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To: C19fan
Over the summer, Geoffrey Knight is in bed with a woman he is dating. He puts his hand on her breast, and she swats it away. “You need to ask before you touch me,”

If it's her bed, immediately get up and leave. Never return.

If it's your bed, immediately kick her sorry ass out. Never allow her to return.

And quit copulating with women who aren't your wife.

46 posted on 02/14/2018 4:23:05 AM PST by NorthMountain (... the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: Ambrosia

Not all foreign women are the same. Even narrow it down to Mexicans or any one ethnicity and they are not all the same. Even narrow it down to just legal, or just illegal, from the same country and they are not all the same.

Some seek love, some seek money and materialism, some seek a commonsense-business-like relationship, some are devoutly religious and some are ho’s.


47 posted on 02/14/2018 4:25:36 AM PST by spintreebob
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To: C19fan

LOL!


48 posted on 02/14/2018 4:26:01 AM PST by Bigg Red (Francis is a Nincompope.)
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To: C19fan

LOL!


49 posted on 02/14/2018 4:26:02 AM PST by Bigg Red (Francis is a Nincompope.)
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To: LibsRJerks

Maybe around 10% of them are even worth having.


One thing I’ve noticed, is that middle aged men are increasingly attracted to [East] Asian women. Those just off the boat, not those who are 2+ generation.

Why? Despite the language barrier, they take much better care of themselves and treat their men far better than American women.


50 posted on 02/14/2018 4:26:43 AM PST by rbg81 (Truth is stranger than fiction)
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To: C19fan

Here’s a suggestion for all of them, male and female:

Stop acting like a pack of dogs in heat.


51 posted on 02/14/2018 4:26:53 AM PST by Bigg Red (Francis is a Nincompope.)
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To: Tax-chick

Ya’ think?


52 posted on 02/14/2018 4:27:52 AM PST by Bigg Red (Francis is a Nincompope.)
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To: Tax-chick

‘In a society in which people didn’t screw around, there would be much less point in “sexual power tripping.”

except your argument fails, because no such society has ever existed, and never will...naturally, in an ideal world, people make wonderful citizens...


53 posted on 02/14/2018 4:29:46 AM PST by IrishBrigade
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To: Socon-Econ

‘George Washington would have asked, “What was he doing in bed with a woman who was not his wife?”

George Washington could just as easily make that same query to those in his own generation...


54 posted on 02/14/2018 4:31:47 AM PST by IrishBrigade
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To: IrishBrigade

Especially founding father Ben Franklin!


55 posted on 02/14/2018 4:34:39 AM PST by Alas Babylon! (Keep fighting the Left and their Fake News!)
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To: C19fan

If this swatter was in my bed, I’d throw her her clothes and tell her not to let the door hit her in the ass. If I was in her bed, I’d be dressed and out the door in 60 seconds.


56 posted on 02/14/2018 4:49:53 AM PST by Pirate Ragnar
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To: bankwalker

From the past but making a strong comeback are these phrases.

“If women didn’t have pu*sies they’d be shot for bounty”

Definition of a woman. “A life support system for a vagina”


57 posted on 02/14/2018 4:52:57 AM PST by billyboy15
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To: Pirate Ragnar

Indeed, and if this is what is available now in the hyper politicized and vengeful current culture, there will need to be signed contracts and total video surveillance of every more (that used to be a crime, but now...). Also, the next growth industry will be the Chinese and Japanese androids with artificial intelligence.


58 posted on 02/14/2018 4:55:41 AM PST by Truth29
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To: C19fan

Women have weaponized sex.

They may not be able to “get back” at every man that ever did them wrong but they can take it out on one guy by denying him the goods. Even in married couples there are wives who will deny their husbands sex as a negotiation maneuver or “payback”.

And there are women who’ve attacked and maimed men for leaving the bed “while” she was or wanted to have sex.


59 posted on 02/14/2018 4:57:28 AM PST by a fool in paradise (Ask a lib if Alger Hiss colluded with the Russians.)
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To: C19fan

>> So when he meets a woman while out at a bar, rather than ask for her number and potentially make her feel pressured to give it, he will give her his number and wait for her to text.

Yeah, uh, women don’t call.

I’ve never been turned down when requesting a phone number (or gotten a bad number) but those calls never come if I’ve given out a number (at least without request).


60 posted on 02/14/2018 4:59:13 AM PST by a fool in paradise (Ask a lib if Alger Hiss colluded with the Russians.)
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