I'm kind of sick of the Open Source Boob Project nonsense. My opinion is that I don't fucking care what people decide to do in their spare time, but it's still kind of sad that so many girls are omg so desperate for male attention/validation/whatever the fuck else that they don't mind having their boobs groped.Unfortunately cons are full of women like that.

You should definitely go to conventions.

Agreed re: boobs. Mine are for the ladies only, except for a very, very special boy. Friendly groping between girls is aces.

Third-ed.

The OSBP wank is so ridiculous. Isn't the point of feminism to choose what you want to do with your body? If you personally don't mind getting groped then awesome! D:

Unfortunately you're going to have that kind of behavior no matter what the topic is, especially on the internet. I think this issue just needs to be buried because it's obvious that it's one of those things that will never be resolved.

Okay, I wasn't going to say anything when I first saw this post because I understand that the attempt to rebuild a relationship here is tenuous at best, but it has been on my mind and bothering me at the bank and Hallmark and on the way to my aunt's house and all the way back here. In the spirit of pledging my support to the OSWBEOU project the other night, I feel like I need to look past my own personal feelings and let the explanation come out anyway.

It's not people saying "It's okay to touch my tits" that's the problem. The problem started the minute that it expanded outside the private room of friends and into the hallways. The problem started when a girl who DIDN'T want her tits fondled by a stranger became a prude or a killjoy or immature or was told she "didn't get it," not only by the men involved, but by the women. The problem started when, for a short period of time, it became the norm for a straight male stranger to approach a woman and touch her tits without expecting reprimand.

If you want people to touch your tits, that's your right and power to you for allowing that to happen without caring about the implications. But it should also be my right to say, "No, you cannot lay a hand on my body without my express permission" without being made to feel badly because of it.

Anyway, I'm not trying to start an argument or a debate, and if you disagree with me, we'll just have to agree to disagree. But my conscience feels better for having said my peace.

My only other issue about OSBP which I didn't mention in my rant and I want to say here:

The con atmosphere isn't really a place for that kind of thing. There are younger teenagers (which we'd be setting an example for), parents and older people (some of them professionals who don't go to those things for grab-ass and actually go to make industry contacts), etc. There's a time and a place.

And for me, I don't want anyone to grab my boobs. They're mine. Groping is something you do in intimate relationships, not just with anyone on the street.

Not to say that your opinion isn't valid, because a lot of girls agreed with you on his website. It's just not my opinion.

Trading tit-gropes with other girls is not anti-feminist. Expecting other women to do so, looking down upon women who don't want to do it, that is anti-feminist. It is also what's going on with this idiotic 'project' of theferret's. (Honestly, if I was in a private setting and a female friend or aquaintance wanted me to feel her up or vice versa? I'm all over that. Not so much with a stranger in a public setting.)

Point, and point. I don't have the patience to go through all the comments on his post, but it looks like he was against boys getting groped, because it was 'dangerous'. Which, no.