I don’t speak for Call or the thousands who retweeted her, but it sure seems like the quotation marks around the word flirt was key. The men who are receiving much-deserved comeuppance right now were not flirting. Showing a woman pornography is not a come-on. Grabbing her by the hair and force kissing her is caveman stuff, not a hint of admiration.
These high-profile slobs were doing what they thought they could get away with. Most men, I hope (and I bet most women hope), still know how to flirt without being offensive. Because if we’re going to embark on building some sort of counter-counterculture, it’s going to have to target grossness, not romance.
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