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Originally Posted by Strange Famous
If a women grabs a man's butt or a man grabs a woman's butt - common sense and basic human understanding tell us that these are different things and one is an offensive and one isnt. We all know this in our hearts to be true. The moral legalistic approach will say it is the same thing - and I feel it is this approach which is being used in this case.
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If any of the three women in my office grabbed my butt, I would be offended. Period. Without question. I don't desire any physical contact with them other than that required to carry out our jobs and incidental, unavoidable contact from working in close vicinity. That is in no way different than if I grabbed their butt, because I'm pretty sure they feel the same way.
Sexism is making blanket judgments about either sex without looking at the way specific individuals are acting. You are making outrageous assumptions about these girls based solely on things "you know in your heart to be true" and you are making outrageous assumptions about the reactions of the males because "that's how we'd feel if we really stepped into their shoes." You have said that women are gentle by nature and incapable of violence and that if they are violent, they are only violent because they have gender identity disorder. All of that is the very definition of sexism, whatever you want to label yourself.