Peeve du Jour

[kyra_ojosverdes]

Hi, I'm Katrina. I'm a woman. I have a brain, and creativity, and ideas, and interests, and opinions, and loves, and loathings... all sorts of things, really! I also have breasts, an ass, and a cunt. I MUCH prefer that people notice the non-anatomical features first, and keep them in the foreground.

Note: I've never met this guy. I've never flirted with him. I really don't know him all that well.

Guy: hey sexy!
*** Auto-response sent to Guy: I'm done with my radiation treatment. Still no superpowers. Damn.
Guy: what? still no superpowers? damn!!
Me: well sorta
Guy: sorta?
Guy: you can see through clothes?
Me: I'm holding my own as the only female on a construction crew, shortly after doing cancert reatment
Me: lol no
Guy: doesn't holding your own get in the way of doing construction? i mean, it probably looks pretty sexy and all, but i'd think it makes it hard to carry stuff, if ya know what i mean.....
Guy: so what to they have you doing? framing?
Me: no, more general labor
Guy: carrying shit around?
Me: today I was "brooming concrete" (vigorously sweeping the sides of walls to remove the fine concrete dust)
Me: yes
Me: cleaning stuff
Me: shoveling
Guy: hmmmm.
Guy: mmmmmmm
Guy: (visualizing you shoveling)
Guy: ya, that works
Guy: so do you wear a hard hat and goggles?
Me: yes
Me: and a dust mask, today
Me: and leather gloves
Me: and a tool belt
Guy: cool! (that's all right, just the hat, mask, goggles and toolbelt and gloves...)
Guy: (i'm in a fiesty mood)

Comments

Bleah...

[medusadawn.livejournal.com]

immature little dreebs. I hate it. I have a chatlog of my own I'll be sharing soon.

I much prefer to talk to men who can hold a conversation that doesn't revolve around sex. I don't care if they're thinking about it as long as they can keep their other head working well enough to discuss something of interest as well.

Re: Bleah...

[kyra-ojosverdes.livejournal.com]

Exactly. We've all got our own inner dialogue, and those who know me can reliably predict that mine includes healthy rations of "nice ass," "sweet waist," "I wonder what it's like to kiss those lips," and "wonder what you're like in bed." There is, however, a time and situation to SAY those things. 90% of times and situations are time to NOT say those things, and instead talk about something that won't make your conversational partner feel like s/he should be charging by the minute.

[yndy.livejournal.com]

what a moron...

sorry hon - but in virtual world, it's surprisingly even less likely that they'll appreciate you for your mind, personality or wit...

you'd think that when all they had to go on was verbal... but nope - that just makes it easier for them to talk themselves into the fact that all women online are just looking for sex-chat... sigh

by the way - congrats on holding your own with the crew!!! woot!! you go girl!!! :)

[thorne1966.livejournal.com]

Typical... and the main reason that i have little use for the male of the species. *L*

In the last week, i've had a couple of 'winners' random IM me, too... one was from right here in M-town, and his Yahoo profile had a pic of nothing but his hard-on... the second one wanted me and B to come down to Clarksburg (30 minutes south of us) and 'have some fun' with him and his wife... *L*

BTW... congrats on hanging in there, babe... and i'll bet the tool-belt DOES look great! *LOL*

[bluemanxcat.livejournal.com]

what a fucking dumbass. i hope you had some great one-liners to shut him up. :)

[swisscelt.livejournal.com]

I'm surprised he didn't say something really stupid like "can you do all that heavy work, being a woman?" Looking over the log, I think that was not-so-cleverly disguised in the joke about "holding your own".

Ugh.

[weedblossom.livejournal.com]

Hate boys. HATE boys. But I think you "handled yourself" quite well! ;)

By the way, CONGRATULATIONS! I'm so happy for you. Now I guess I'll have to plan my vacation around YOUR work schedule!!!!!!

[fuckingsilence.livejournal.com]

I've had a number of female friends share these kinds of conversations with me, and it really never ceases to amaze me that there are guys out there that will actually behave like this. On the up side, it's always good to share a hearty laugh at their expense. I think a lot of these guys act mostly out of an inherent cowardice that the Internet grants them asylum from. I wonder if they'd still feel the same way if they knew their "conversations" were being trotted out for people to point at and laugh.

ding ding ding

[mindscat.livejournal.com]

i think you hit the nail on the head. i get an unending supply of stupid males PMing me on yahoo. but it sure makes for some fun journal entries.

SO familiar.

[gryphonwing.livejournal.com]

Stupid jerks.

I mean, why is it women who make sexual comments like that aren't offensive? Do we just know when to stop?

Bah. Ergh. And screw them all. Or rather, don't.

Re: SO familiar.

[kyra-ojosverdes.livejournal.com]

I think that most women both know when to start and when to stop. I have, on occasion, had a woman make offensive or unwelcome sexual remarks, but it's really rare.