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azdesertroseOh, another thing from Fuel last night. I met a couple named Jenn and Mike; Mike is severely hearing impaired but reads lips very well. You'd never know he was mostly deaf if no one told you, but we got into this absolutely hilarious discussion about profanity in sign language. I knew how to sign "shit" and "damn" and "fuck", but I never knew how to sign "motherfucker" until last night. (It's "the bird" with your thumb out; you turn your hand sideways, palm toward yourself, and bounce the extended thumb off your chin.)
Jenn used to make her living as a dancer/stripper. There is a guy called D, who knew her from her stripper days and seems to think that since she once made her living that way, she forfeited her right to say, "No, you can't touch me." He regularly grabs her breasts and bottom and subjects her to a barrage of unwelcome sexual comments, despite repeated requests that he knock it the fuck off. Unfortunately, Mike is a hell of a lot smaller than D (hell, Mike is smaller than I am), and so, though he'd love to open a can of butt-kick on this guy, he realizes that he'd get the crap kicked out of him, which wouldn't really help Jenn much. I told Jenn that, in befriending me and Rip and Jen and Delmarie and Widget (and Cliff by association, though he hasn't met Jenn and Mike yet), she has hooked up with people who can arrange the kicking of arse.
All of the aforementioned friends of mine and I are members of the SCA, and one of the more common pastimes in SCA is known as heavy fighting, i.e. dressing up in armor and beating each other with big sticks. (The SCA uses rattan sticks in place of swords, for safety reasons. Rattan will bruise you, but you really have to work to cause any worse damage than bruising.) Another little quirk of the SCA in general is that, while a LOT of the people are what one might call HORNDOGS *cough* I mean, very flirtatious, there is also the very strong belief that "no" bloody well means "no." And it doesn't take much to get SCA fighters (mostly men anyway) to want to beat on people, especially people who need a lesson in how to behave.
I think that this D person needs to get his arse beaten by a few men who still know the meaning of chivalry.
Jenn used to make her living as a dancer/stripper. There is a guy called D, who knew her from her stripper days and seems to think that since she once made her living that way, she forfeited her right to say, "No, you can't touch me." He regularly grabs her breasts and bottom and subjects her to a barrage of unwelcome sexual comments, despite repeated requests that he knock it the fuck off. Unfortunately, Mike is a hell of a lot smaller than D (hell, Mike is smaller than I am), and so, though he'd love to open a can of butt-kick on this guy, he realizes that he'd get the crap kicked out of him, which wouldn't really help Jenn much. I told Jenn that, in befriending me and Rip and Jen and Delmarie and Widget (and Cliff by association, though he hasn't met Jenn and Mike yet), she has hooked up with people who can arrange the kicking of arse.
All of the aforementioned friends of mine and I are members of the SCA, and one of the more common pastimes in SCA is known as heavy fighting, i.e. dressing up in armor and beating each other with big sticks. (The SCA uses rattan sticks in place of swords, for safety reasons. Rattan will bruise you, but you really have to work to cause any worse damage than bruising.) Another little quirk of the SCA in general is that, while a LOT of the people are what one might call HORNDOGS *cough* I mean, very flirtatious, there is also the very strong belief that "no" bloody well means "no." And it doesn't take much to get SCA fighters (mostly men anyway) to want to beat on people, especially people who need a lesson in how to behave.
I think that this D person needs to get his arse beaten by a few men who still know the meaning of chivalry.
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Date: 2006-04-02 03:14 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-04-02 05:32 am (UTC)If you'd like to beat the hell out of him, though, I rather doubt Jenn will say you nay.