xXxJessicaxXx said:
Iron Mal said:
It's one of those things up there with women who complain about men staring at their breasts and yet insist on wearing figure enhancing and skin revealing clothing.
Dude we should be able to wear what we want. If men can't control themselves it isn't our fault, we have every right to complain if a guy is creeping on us.
Let's review all the laws in the United States. I'll give everyone a minute to find and read them.
Done? Good. You now know that "staring" is not a punishable offense in any state, county, city, town, or territory as long as the "staree" is in a publicly visible location (i.e., does not have a reasonable right to privacy). [Legal disclaimer: This is not legal advice, and should not be taken as such. Azuaron is not a lawyer, and has not read all the laws in the United States. However, Azuaron is reasonably certain this is true. Upon proof that this is not true, Azuaron will award proof-giver 1 (one) internet and correct the data.]
Yelling also isn't, in most circumstances, illegal, depending on what time it is and what's being yelled. Neither is: honking your horn for no reason, talking loudly on your cellphone in a restaurant, or driving with your high beams on all the time.
Do those things make you kind of a jerk? Yes. But, to take the honking example, if someone's about to hit you because they're changing lanes without looking, a honk is certainly justified. A honk is possibly justified if someone has a sign that says to honk if you agree to something. A honk is questionable--at best--on a quiet suburban street and you're too lazy to get out of your car to knock on your friend's door or call them with your cell phone, so you decide to be inconsiderate to everyone within a block.
The social acceptability of a legal action is proportional to the degree with which that action was provoked and the company of peers around the person performing the action. For instance, staring at a woman in non-revealing clothing is not socially acceptable in pretty much any company other than construction workers. Staring at a naked woman is socially acceptable even if I'm with my wife, because she'll be staring right along with me at just how bafflingly weird (and illegal!) that is.
Unless the woman being stared at is part of the company of peers, her opinions on the matter are irrelevant, and, anyway, must be assumed based on what she's wearing. I.e., if she's showing cleavage to her belly button, she must be fine with people looking at her cleavage down to her belly button; that's a simple logical assumption that can only be refuted under absurdly specific circumstances. But, as previously stated, unless the woman is in the starer's company of peers, those circumstances are unknowable anyway.
Now, if someone is staring in an amount disproportionate to the goods on display, they still have a legal right to stare (assuming said goods are in public), but anyone witnessing this "over-stare" has the social right to not associate themselves with that person. Just like we have the social right to not associate with people who talk loudly on cell phones in a restaurant.
And just like we have the social right to not associate with people who dress like hookers.
Just sayin'.