Its the same old story. Woman is sitting in library minding her own business. Man approaches and asks if he can kiss her foot. Woman says, "No Freakboy!" Man says, "Its part of a sociological experiment I'm doing, ahhh, ahhh, ahhhh." Woman says, "No". Man says, "Ahh, ahhh. Please." Woman says, "No". Man says, "Oh,Please! Oh, Please! Please! Please!" Woman says, "Well, if your going to put it that way, sure."
A Mahoning County, Ohio, grand jury has indicted a twenty eight year old man on a charge of gross sexual imposition, which is only slightly less offensive than gross sexual position, a crime involving obese geriatrics and a Love Swing sex harness, after he sucked a woman's toe in a public library. It seems the woman had allowed the man to kiss her foot after he had asked her permission a few times and told her it was part of a sociological experiment he was conducting. The man then proceeded to suck on the complainant's toe, after which, he asked her what her reaction was, probably saying something like, "Was it good for you, the porcini amor?" The woman's response was apparently something like, "Whoa dude, that's like all gross and stuff. Now I'm all like, freaked out," at which point she left for the bathroom to wash her foot, which seems like it might have been something I would have requested of her before the incident, but you know, to each their own.
Excuse me for a moment. I must vomit.
Where was I? Oh, yes. The woman returned from the bathroom to find the man had "Pulled an Elvis", in this case meaning left the building, though other meanings may apply as well. At this point, the woman called the police and, in a phone conversation I would have loved to have been privy to, filed a complaint. She later picked the man out of a photo line-up. He was the one with athlete's lip.
Not only is this little tale of piggy molestation true, it is also stomach churning and, call me a male chauvinist metatarsal, but somewhat unfair. Let's change up the scenario a little. Say some guy walks into the supermarket where I am buying some cod, beer, toilet paper, and a spiral notebook. My grocery lists always seem to go like that. Anyway, say this man approaches me and asks if he might have the pleasure of fondling the grapes, for strictly experimental reasons, and we aren't standing in the produce department. I would of course say, are you going to pay for my groceries? But, let's just say I answer sure, you know, for the good of science and all. Now at what point does this man think I mean he can fondle but not caress, or he can tickle but not squeeze, or he can...
Excuse me, I must vomit.
You see where I'm going with this, right? How does this woman giving him the permission to kiss her foot, lead him to believe it would be inappropriate to suck her toe? As my grandma used to say, "If you don't want your toe sucked at the library, you should keep your foot in your shoe instead of letting a strange man kiss it." Granny was somewhat senile at the time, but hey, as it turns out, its good advice.
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I'm not sure which one it was. I would assume the one that went market, for no other reason than convenience.
Excuse me. I must vomit.
Excuse me, I must vomit.
peace, wayf
Granny was an amazing woman, with her corn cob pipe and her squinty eye. Sharp as a tack...y substance like glue or something. We are hoping she will come back from the store one day. Never should have let her have those keys.
I'm glad you stopped by too. And glad you smiled as well.
Is this a call me anything but late for toe sucking kinda thing. Excuse me, I'm gettin queasy.
But of course your point is about the injustice this man is suffering, and the underlying sexism of the case. The judicial wisdom of Sam from "Casablanca" is applicable here: "A kiss is just a kiss, a toe is still a toe...." and so forth. "Toe means toe", as Nancy Reagan would say. There was mischief afoot in the library, and it must be punished (possibly with orthopedic shoes).
But it was a foot! A foot!... A foot! Did I mention that it was a foot? If I had my way, people wouldn't even have feet. Of course, the ensuing Hoveround traffic would be a mess, but I'm sure we could figure something out.
Actually, its not sexism so much as the insanity of the whole situation. Really, if I had been the guy, aside from the fact that I would rather stick a sharp instrument beneath my fingernail and swirl it counter clockwise at blender speed than suck a toe, I might also have been unaware of the invisible border that seperates foot kissing from toe sucking. I think once a certain line is crossed it all becomes pretty fuzzy. Oh, god. I wonder if her toe was fuzzy. I wish I hadn't done that.
Think about how damn persuasive this guy must be to get her to relent to letting a stranger kiss her feet in the public library in the first place? Wouldn't his time be better spent starting a cult somewhere?
Maybe you have ptomaine poisoning.
So, footsie is out of the question, I guess - - damn. Whassup with you people who are anti-podal???? Just for a moment, think about the things you've put your mouth on, or put IN your mouth, during your lifetime? And you'd turn your nose up at a foot? Did that sentence make any sense at ALL?????
But I think you're right - - once you've given someone permission to kiss your foot, you really can't get them to toe the line and stop there. It's a short step to arch-licking and toe-sucking and heel-humping and ankle-agitating.
He DOES sound like a mesmer - - what was SHE thinking? Maybe she felt they were sole-mates......
Val;
I bow respectfully to the pun queen.
I didn't ask to have an anti-foot fetish or a foot anti-fetish or an anti-foot anti-fetish... to not like tootsies. But hey, I also don't like to think about the fact that there are organs inside my body. It freakin' creeps me out. So, as always, consider the source. Nobody ever said I wasn't abnormal (Ha. The elusive triple negative).
That crazy Val. She's a pistol. Or maybe a handgrenade. Well, either way, she makes me laugh and has a mind you just want to put on a shelf and point to and say, "You see that one? They just don't make 'em like that anymore." It is a good contrast to my mind, which should be kept in the attic, locked tightly in a steamer trunk.
Hmmmmmm - - not only do I think feet are quite attractive and extremely useful, but I would LOVE to be able to see my own organs (but preferably not after being gutted during the commission of a robbery). The "Body Worlds 2" exhibition was WHACK - - humans are incredible, inside and out.
Colo, I'm so sorry that you've been picking up on the undercurrents of loathing and disgust in my exchanges with The Vessel - - I try to contain it, but it WILL leak through. As a fundamentalist Christian Republican, how could I respond otherwise to this godless liberal????
A hand grenade, huh? Ya know, a juvenile justice system colleague once told my boss that I was a loose cannon - - there appears to be a theme of explosiveness and volatility here. And I embrace it! I have to admit being disturbed by the idea of The Vessel taking brains and placing them on shelves or in steamer trunks - - more evidence that he is, indeed, strangling the unlucky Girl Scouts and Jehovah's Witnesses who come to his door, chopping 'em up, soaking the parts in lye, and making lutefisk out of the remains.
I like your brains, too, Colo & Vessel - - especially with a little wasabi.....