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Why discriminate? Tiny titties deserve being stared at too!
...........you uh......you maybe want to rethink that thought process?
Hopefully people in the future will read your comment as saying:
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Oh i know the thought process is off center for the comment, but I found it funny (for me anyway) and posted the result because, why not.
Saw the picture, thought of "hey, my eyes are up here", then of the Simpsons "i made my choice" meme. The writing said "1%", but a lot of men have only one singular thought when staring at a woman's chest. So taking the whole "you're focused on the wrong 1%" as referring to breasts as a body part and only a small part of the individual, the meaning can become "stop staring at my tits and see me as a person". But then I thought, different sizes, different percentages. Looking at the picture again, assigning just 1% to it would probably mean a small size, tiny even, and i felt upset on their behalf in this short imaginary journey. Hence the comment.
Now, was that the thought process you were imagining when you made your comment or something else entirely?
I'm glad I've never been accused of this (okay, once but I wasn't even serious, more like "Wait, how do people react if you DO stare at them 'too long' instead of avoiding looking at them at all? Oh, they feel bad is what, that's not nice of me." ). Not that I actually do it, but that I'm really self-conscious about accidentally making people sexually uncomfortable.
I think the problem is sexually aggressive men often like sexually aggressive women. So the most lecherous don't understand because either they think "handsome and beautiful/sexy belong together" and therefore would WANT to have their (i.e.) crotch stared at by a woman they don't know (provided she looks "attractive") or they don't mind "ugly" but don't think of themselves as "not ugly" and otherwise think the same (liking being watched by a woman). That's a small enough part of the population that it has, in it's own way, become a minority ("Incels" deserve to be ridiculed, they just aren't common).
None of it is justified behavior, obviously. People don't like being stared at, how hard is it for a supposed "manly extrovert sex god" to realize that, when nerdy 16-year old introverted me understood a girl deserved an apology for my random "social experiment"? Respect must be mutual, and if anyone didn't say "yes" to actual physical contact, it's sexual assault. Unfortunately, even in nature (see: Ducks) there is nothing physically preventing rape, and so the struggle was inevitable the moment humans existed because - to some degree - genders and gender identities exist.
All I'm saying is, the culture wars are nothing but unwarranted posturing. From both/all sides. Be what and who you want. Oh, and fuck over that wealthy 1%, nobody can own 99% of the money and have obtained it by purely honest means.
Sadly, posturing is often a great motivator for poorly thought-out decisions.
Pushing through with a wrong decision regardless of the end result would be a matter of losing self worth, I think. Apologizing is often felt as a position of weakness that opens up a vulnerability in a pretty much shoddy armour of fragile self worth and losing even that much might trigger an existential crisis that threatens the core of one's identity.
Another part might be us not being wired to naturally consider long-term effects, as it's usually a taught trait. So much of our emotional presence is rooted in the moment rather than several steps ahead. And a psychological danger is often resolved with an immediate and superficial response.
To become and remain what is considered as well adjusted is a difficult process that needs repeated efforts of introspection. And not many can or are willing to go through the process. So being respectful of one another is something to be admired because it's not something we can do by default. I'd say instinctual and often disrespectful responses are our usual default state instead.
I think the disconnect comes from the fact that this is a trans icon design. Meaning the 1% that IS being focused on, are the 1% of university college athletes that are trans that are being (or were being) banned from playing sports.
The defense for why it was ok was that "Well, only 1% of athletes are even affected by this ban, so YOU will be fine!" (Assuming "you" is a non-trans person, which they do assume).
And the wrong 1% would be THE 1%. As in the elite, the rich, the wealthy. The whole 1% of people control 99% of earths wealth.
The shirt is saying "Hey republicans, you need to worry more about the wealthy who impose laws that ACTUALLY affect you negatively, and less about trans athletes which in no way harm anyone."
And then you come in like "Yeah, but small titties are cool."
Which is like......what?
When we talk about things, we use our accumulated knowledge to create a context. However because that knowledge isn't the same for everyone, the understandable context can be similar, but different.
So for example, a person who doesn't know about college trans athletes, but knows about trans won't understand the same context as someone who knows the subject in depth or as someone who knows little about the concept itself. But if they all recognize the 1% as the rich elite, then they can all vaguely share that partial context.
It might be an exaggeration in my case because yeah, still I would say that people in general should avoid expectations for everyone participating in this kind of conversation to share the same understanding of the context at hand.
Common sense isn't universal. Perception is unequal. Divergence in way of thought is to be expected.
But yeah, I support both opinions you've extracted independently from each other.