When I walked in to the library someone back in the returns section who works here, an older white woman said that if I started hollering about men bugging me they'd ban me from the library. I said that I would absolutely say something if anyone propositioned me and that she had just lost her job. I figure an idle threat about banning deserved a mention of being fired.
After that someone else who worked here said that if men are going to be coming to spend time in the public library they will have to behave. The intention of libraries that are available to the public after hundreds of years of private and exclusive libraries are to expand the number of people who do know how to treat books and behave in public and to give the different classes opportunities to reinforce good behavior in each other, but in many or most communities most of the men who go to the library are there because the stacks provide a lot of hidey holes and other holes.
Anyway, people are like why the green and purple so much, so today I wore green purple and rainbow, and I honestly think I look like I was run over by a steam roller about a week ago. People talk about the use of serin or "woop ass gas from a can that can be opened up"as a way that people can be absolute ruffians beating people up on the street for any reason that pops into their minds but without the side effect of streets being full of bruised people with broken bones and bandages even if a lot of people are limping or holding arms that are in a lot of pain or unable to balance properly. I'm taking that away from them by dressing in the colors of the abused.
And Hotzetiger mentioned a few days ago that in Mongolian culture a wife is expected to maintain herself and didn't explicitly say this because to us it goes without saying, that we get married to have someone to participate in sexuality with, its not the marriage practice of everyone, but its our practice, and the idea that wives should get fat and ugly so that people don't think that they are whores just sounds stupid beyond comprehension. The idea that people can't figure out that I'm going to exercise (the guy next to me just did a jerking off gesture in my peripheral vision, acting like he's wiping things down) and that if people try to body shame me I'm not going to do something mean to them in return makes it easier to explain to my people around the world that we might be pinheaded in general, but there's lots of types of mental limitation in the world and many different reasons to get that way.
