No, it’s not against the law, but it’s pushing the boundaries of what is acceptable in 2020, look i’m not defending the new age salem witch trials of twitter, i just exist and i dont make the game of life i play it, and i like everyone else have to abide by the rules.
Everyone could benefit greatly from a general societal discourse about educating people on why the western worlds judicial system works as it does and why it benefits the most people, but until then, why push the limits because ‘‘It’s not against the law’’?
So if I understand this correctly people should be free to not have statements made against them when under investigation because it affects their liberty, but a private business shouldn’t be free to remove association with anyone for any reason whatsoever even if their EULA states outight they can?
Sure liberty is being defended here? Or just the kind of liberty you happen to like?
It’s human nature to flirt, It’s in our Human instincts. It’s the way it works, We all ended up in relationships from flirting, How do you think relationships happen? Written contracts? lol. That’s what I’m talking about, Twitter doesn’t decide whats acceptable or not. We’re all adults, it’s actually quite simple, If you flirt with someone and they say no, leave them alone, Simple rule. Overcomplicating things to the point nobody can talk to each other.
I 100% agree with you, but that is not the societal climate the world is in right now. I agree that a lot of people have a tendency to be very thin skinned, and have a tendency to actively look for things to upset them, but that is exactly why i think that right now, maybe the right thing is to just go with the flow and try to change the general opinion over time.
Yeah it’s not that simple tho. Flirting usually requires some social understanding of the situation and context to be effective.
Randomly telling someone you want to bang them isn’t flirting.
Neither is sending someone a picture of genitals.
The intention of the communicator is not the only thing that matters, the targets response matters. You could intend to say “hi” to me from across the street by throwing a stone at my head, the fact you intended it as a greeting doesn’t mean I have to accept it as one.
Yes some people are OTT with interpretation of messages, but it’s a lot more complex than “Twitter is outlawing flirting ohemgee” because some of the people who are using flirting as their reasoning are undertaking frankly unwelcome and invasive behaviours and don’t consider how their behaviour comes across. They only imagine how they’d interpret the behaviour if it was aimed at them, but that is not a faithful gauge for how others might see it.
Also even though flirting is “nature” there’s such a thing as contextual awareness. Just because you (not literally you) might be happy to have someone you find attractive hit on you when you’re busy pumping gas it doesn’t mean anyone else would be, they might just want to pump gas and see such behaviour as bothersome no matter how well intentioned it was.
Recipients of messages could do with commonsense in interpretation ie don’t dial the drama up, but similarly those who send them could do with some tact and nuance as well.
I couldn’t agree more, but sadly this is the new normal, and anyone who think that ‘‘rebelling against the world’’ david and goliath style is a good idea are bound to find themselves in exactly this whole ordeal of cancel culture.
So for the time being, the right move is to simply not be sexually suggestive, towards anyone, until something changes.
You’re saying if a female puts her arms around them , they shouldn’t be nice and do it back. I think that’s “normal” I get what you meant though that you’re putting yourself at risk. However being scared of coming across as a sexual pedator because you hugged a fan who put their arms around isn’t “normal” I think that fairly obvious.
How can you claim it’s not normal? So what’s normal to you exactly? if that isn’t?
So a streamer is never ever allowed to have a relationship then? Because they are always at work according to your logic? When does the streamers work end?
No that is not what I said. A lot of these accusations come from incidents while they are working as a streamer, promoting themselves, on streams, at events, networking etc.