Beanies, is there a rule that I’m missing about watching stuff on your own device in your own space in a public place?
I was watching Long Time, No See (https://mydramalist.com/26024-long-time-no-see) at the Community Center on Monday waiting for my sons while they swam – hunched over my ipod (small screen) with my backpack in front of me. To see my screen you’d have to be right up next to me, look over my shoulder and straight down, pretty much right up in what I feel is my personal space. This late-middle-aged woman (I say that as someone who will be 50 in a few months) felt she could get offended by what I was watching – two guys being “arty senusal” in bed together (nothing explicit, I’m not an idiot to watch porn in public). She was huffing and puffing and making little offended “Uh!”s, when I looked up she was looking at my screen. When I asked her if I could help her with something she was all flustered and said “NO!” and stalked off. Am I wrong in thinking that as long as I wasn’t public displaying it, trying to be respectful and keep it out of general view, people have no reason to be upset? Especially if you have to go out of your way to see what it is I’m looking at (which she did, I was really keeping my ipod screen out general view).
That’s what I thought, but I’m out of touch with social rules. I see people displaying their ideos in varying degrees in public, some people have it right out, other people keep it down and out view. I generally keep it out of view no matter what I’m watching.
I watched Long Time, No See in a Rabbit watch a month or so ago and really liked it.
I once read American Psycho on the tube and thought I’d be mortified if anybody would read over my shoulder at the language and events. In contrast, this drama was a bit more explicit than your average kdrama but there was nothing in there that I would embarrased to watch in public.
She was probably flustered for lusting after two men young enough to be her sons, in a public space. Are you sure you didn’t misinterpret her ‘huffing and puffing’ lol
She sounds like a garden variety homophobe. You weren’t watching anything harmful and you weren’t imposing it on other people. She can “get tae fuck” as they say in my locale.
lazygeisha was modernflapper
July 18, 2018 at 7:09 AM
Beanies, is there a rule that I’m missing about watching stuff on your own device in your own space in a public place?
I was watching Long Time, No See (https://mydramalist.com/26024-long-time-no-see) at the Community Center on Monday waiting for my sons while they swam – hunched over my ipod (small screen) with my backpack in front of me. To see my screen you’d have to be right up next to me, look over my shoulder and straight down, pretty much right up in what I feel is my personal space. This late-middle-aged woman (I say that as someone who will be 50 in a few months) felt she could get offended by what I was watching – two guys being “arty senusal” in bed together (nothing explicit, I’m not an idiot to watch porn in public). She was huffing and puffing and making little offended “Uh!”s, when I looked up she was looking at my screen. When I asked her if I could help her with something she was all flustered and said “NO!” and stalked off. Am I wrong in thinking that as long as I wasn’t public displaying it, trying to be respectful and keep it out of general view, people have no reason to be upset? Especially if you have to go out of your way to see what it is I’m looking at (which she did, I was really keeping my ipod screen out general view).
lazygeisha was modernflapper
July 18, 2018 at 7:18 AM
That’s what I thought, but I’m out of touch with social rules. I see people displaying their ideos in varying degrees in public, some people have it right out, other people keep it down and out view. I generally keep it out of view no matter what I’m watching.
Cloggie
July 18, 2018 at 7:41 AM
I watched Long Time, No See in a Rabbit watch a month or so ago and really liked it.
I once read American Psycho on the tube and thought I’d be mortified if anybody would read over my shoulder at the language and events. In contrast, this drama was a bit more explicit than your average kdrama but there was nothing in there that I would embarrased to watch in public.
She was probably flustered for lusting after two men young enough to be her sons, in a public space. Are you sure you didn’t misinterpret her ‘huffing and puffing’ lol
lazygeisha was modernflapper
July 18, 2018 at 8:40 AM
By the outraged look on her face, I don’t think so, lol! I didn’t find it that bad, slightly racy but it was more “artsy” than sexual. To me, anyway
Cloggie
July 18, 2018 at 8:45 AM
She was just shocked that you caught her ogling 🙂
On a more serious note, it never ceases to amaze me what people can get ‘outraged’ by.
lazygeisha was modernflapper
July 18, 2018 at 8:41 AM
I think a couple of the HIStorys are more explicit than Long Time, No See, especially Obsessed. That one I watched at home, lol!
lazygeisha was modernflapper
July 18, 2018 at 8:44 AM
BTW, I was laughing out loud at the scene where they’re trying to get their clothes off. 🤣
Cloggie
July 18, 2018 at 8:48 AM
That scene is hysterical.
Bean Ní Rírá | feminist killjoy 😡
July 18, 2018 at 10:00 AM
She sounds like a garden variety homophobe. You weren’t watching anything harmful and you weren’t imposing it on other people. She can “get tae fuck” as they say in my locale.
lazygeisha was modernflapper
July 18, 2018 at 10:36 AM
ooh, I like that phrase!