The Open Source Boob Project
April 23rd 2008 -
The original post can be found here, although it’s a bit convoluted with all of the edits. Basically, here is the gist of it:
At Penguicon, we had buttons to give away. There were two small buttons, one for each camp: A green button that said, “YES, you may” and a red button that said “NO, you may not.” And anyone who had those buttons on, whether you knew them or not, was someone you could approach and ask:
“Excuse me, but may I touch your breasts?”
AHEM.
This comment rather sums up my feelings on this particular proposal:
“My body does not exist in the binary of SOME GUY’S ACCESS TO IT.”
Here is a brilliant satire of the initial proposal
And here is a round-up of links that have documented the responses.
April 23rd, 2008 at 11:57 am
My response was roughly: “I’d like to go to this party & ask you guys if I can punch you in the face. You just strike me as guys I want to punch in the face. Nothing personal: I don’t even care about your personalities. I just want to punch you. Can I punch you in the face?”
April 23rd, 2008 at 3:44 pm
If I had seen those buttons, I would have assumed it was talking about the “glomping issue.” I wonder how many women accidentally agreed to more?
At our con, while the mascot may be willing to show a little more cleavage upon request or a Miroku maybe allowed to playfully grope an ass IF the girl requests it, I don’t know of anyone NO MATTER HOW SLUTTY who would not be weirded out by someone asking “May I touch your breast?” That is creepy and wrong, and you are begging -whether she says yes or not- to have our awesome-ass security team jump on you like rabid wolves.
August 4th, 2008 at 12:55 pm
how nice though. Guys wanting things to be simple. Girls prefering things to be complex.