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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Henry" data-source="post: 569411" data-attributes="member: 158">I'm about to sound like I'm seventy years old here.My mother and father raised me with respect towards people, but particularly towards women - that's what I was taught. When I was dating, I wouldn't have DREAMT of following some girl or woman home, much less asking them a second time for a date or a coffee after she said "no" the first time. The mindset that says, "you can hunt a woman down until she says yes" just pushes one of my hot buttons. But that is indeed the message that is pushed through most cultural facets I see these days. About the only thing I've seen to even begin to counter it is the "girl power" icons (shows like "Charmed", "Buffy", and older icons like "La Femme Nikita") - which, while good entertainment, and inspirations to be more assertive, aren't exactly shining icons of emulation, since I see a lot of inference that the answer is not to be assertive, but to "wear the leather pants of evil and push back."The problem also comes up in a more insidious fashion - it reinforces the thought patterns of pervs like that that all women are assertive to the point of being "bad girls just waiting to come out" - which is as far from the message the show gives as you can get.OK - I'm done with sounding 70 now. But stalking, even the "informal type" that most posters are describing here, proves to me just how sparse self-respect and respect for others truly is.</blockquote>

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