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April 23, 2008

The Open Source Boob Project

Filed under: conventions,Criticism and Commentary,Fandom,Gender — Caribou23 @ 10:18 am

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.

30 Comments »

  1. 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?”

    Comment by mordicai — April 23, 2008 @ 11:57 am

  2. 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.

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