• MrJameGumb@lemmy.world
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    6 days ago

    Here’s the article

    In the X post, which boasts 1.6 million views, she recalled how a male stranger sitting behind her handed her a “piece of paper and said, “Take this and read it later. It’s not creepy."

    Yeah, can’t see anything creepy about that lol

    • kautau@lemmy.world
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      lol the title of the article is “Passenger horrified”

      Then the article:

      “It was a handwritten note complimenting my hair at length … and [a] $100 bill,” exclaimed the flabbergasted gal.

      However, the passenger explained in a follow-up post how she didn’t find it creepy because her mile-high admirer “didn’t leave a number and there was clearly no expectation or hope that we would interact again.”

      Apparently it’s fine to do weird shit as long as there’s money involved

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        The real take away is that the $100 indicates the weirdo is wealthy enough to just give her, a stranger, that money for no apparent reason. So if you are wealthy, doing weird stuff is fine.

      • MrJameGumb@lemmy.world
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        It looked like the consensus in the comments was that he probably snipped some of her hair to take home with him without her noticing before giving her the note with the money in it

        • Twinklebreeze @lemmy.world
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          I think it’s actually chemistry. If you have chemistry with the person it probably won’t be creepy. Now looks, and money, okay a part in chemistry but the two issue isn’t ugly, poor people. It’s people that don’t seem to know it care if someone is in to them.

        • SoleInvictus@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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          I often see people trying to reduce creepy/not creepy down to one variable, but I think it’s at least two very broad categories: mutual interest and context.

          Leaving my partner a surprise gift telling them I’ll always be with them and will never leave is romantic. Doing the same to someone I’ve just met is terrifying.

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          If I had a dollar for every woman who called me ugly, women wouldn’t think I was ugly anymore

          • MrJameGumb@lemmy.world
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            Oh ok, I was talking about the link for the article. Yeah I tried the X link too it looks like it’s been taken down. I’m guessing since they linked the article directly to that ladies personal Twitter account she probably got sick of hearing about it and deleted it lol

  • StarlightDust@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    Last week, I was on a train and a much older drunk man came over and started asking me out and trying to make conversation. I ended up trapped on that train with him for about 30 mins, constantly having to consider the risks. I never outright rejected him because we were stuck in an enclosed space and I thought that it was a very real risk that he would become violent. Eventually, along with two other women that I had just met on the train, we managed to convince this man that it was his stop when it wasn’t because, without a word we each realized that he would become more of an issue if he followed one of us at our stops.

    On a plane, it is even more enclosed and usually only goes to one destination. You can’t make the same decisions to keep yourself safe that women have to make all the time. Its also much more likely that you will be in an unfamiliar environment.

    Every woman has countless stories like this so this woman was right to be scared.

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    The worst she can say is “no”

    But the thing is she’s not gonna say “no”, she would never say “no” because of the implication.

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    6 days ago

    The note compimented her hair at length and had a $100 bill

    "However, the passenger explained in a follow-up post how she didn’t find it creepy because her mile-high admirer ‘didn’t leave a number and there was clearly no expectation or hope that we would interact again.’

    The X commentariat begged to differ."

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    It’s like being gay, if you say, no homo before, it’s okay, youre still straight… So, by that logic,if you say, not creepy beforehand, it makes it not creepy.