Rou

Respect is a simple thing. Easy to give. Easy to lose.

I don’t understand people that refuse to give that respect to people they just met. For a totally random example, hypothetically… just off the top of my head… an attractive young Indian woman, who has drawn a crowd of… well to be brutal about it… middle aged farts who want to take the chance to leer.

During the chatting up phase, they ask her if she wants to grab a beer with the guys tonight. They always go out to the bar on Friday nights. She politely and humbly declines saying she can’t go. They press her a bit and she tells them that her religion does not allow her to drink alcohol. Fine. All well and good.

Now, this is the balancing point. Between respecting her and harassing her.

They don’t just let well enough alone. They go into a huge inquisition about it. What religion? Why? Has she ever had a drink? Does she think she could tell an alcoholic drink from a normal one? And then they launch into a huge elaborate plan to get her drunk unknowingly.

Disgusting behavior really.