The fuck. It’s behind a paywall so I’ll never know.

  • Acute_Engles [he/him, any]@hexbear.net
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    All the college campuses I’ve worked construction or maintenance on (as an outside contractor) have had specific rules about this.

    They were all around or exactly 2 seconds of looking at someone without reason (if you intend to interact with them in some work capacity you’re allowed to look at people)

    Think about how rules get created. Think about how the rule had to be morphed over time until it became not allowed for outside workers to perceive students for longer than 2 seconds.

    I’ve worked in trades for a long time now and I was completely unsurprised the first time i did an orientation at a campus and was actually glad they were so adamant about it because of people who worked for the same company as I did

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    8 hours ago

    Same rule as looking at the sun: you can gaze a little longer if you wear sunglasses.

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    What are these people doing with their eyes do get “sharp disapproving looks” from women. Like are they actually just doing the cartoon eyes pop out of head looking up and down when they see a woman and they genuinely thing they are the victim here??? Surely they know the difference between looking at someone and staring at/ogling them… Surely…

  • damn does this guy tell on himself as a leering weirdo.

    I especially like the part about his wife divorcing him for being this way.

    also, if someone has time to give you a disapproving scowl, it was not a “quick glance”.

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    Things are so much easier when one has the “I don’t want to make other people feel uncomfortable” principal.

    I don’t pretend to be some perfect guy, but I don’t recall being “given sharp, disapproving looks” in at least a decade if not much longer.

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      It’s always pretty sus when discussing this, if they paint themselves as the REAL victims. If they mentioned that as you said, they don’t want people to feel uncomfortable, then that’s totally forgivable.