This is what I didn’t get when I heard about this yesterday on the news. If a random man ran up to a woman and grabbed her, we would be having a very different conversation. Why is this ok?

The head piece though... so much old school Hollywood glamour...

ha! i’m such an infrequent commenter that i just cut and pasted this on a bunch of comments cuz i don’t really know how it works. But that BAMF lady and the nice couple who wished her well is a lovely story, especially on such a cold, miserable rainy day to run and to spectate. sadface.

I firmly believe Ignorance and Want are hiding under that thing.

Too bad it went down the rabbit hole, the actual story is really really delightful all around,

I loved that she wore that and managed to be breathtaking while wearing basically a Ghost-of-Christmas-Present bathrobe (nothing against the naked sparkly dresses but it kinda appeals to the lowest common denominator). The only thing with that dress was the way she kept her arms...it made her look like she was holding…

This pretty accurately reflects my ambivalence. I’m a guy, and I would be fucking horrified if a woman came up and just kissed me. It would not be okay with me by any stretch of the imagination. On the other hand, I also recognize that I don’t carry around the same fears that women generally do, because I didn’t grow…

Kissing strangers is how you get Herpes.

Ideas like this are founded in the notion that men are all about the sexy times, and that's just not true. If some random woman tried to kiss me I would be pissed off. Nobody invades my personal space

I would yell “enjoy the hepatitis, asshole!”

Both parties reported that it was a very much consensual, inconsequential gesture of support, and the third party (god are we really so antiquated to assume that a woman would be jealous over a peck of support?) agreed. Kissing a stranger without consent-yes that is crappy. It is also, by all reports, not remotely…

Here’s an article about this that implies that she asked permission before and got a photo during kissing him, so it appears that he gave his permission. And if you look at the article, apparently there is already a tradition where men usually kiss female strangers.

V-J Day in Times Square.

Thank you! And also, implying that the wife is mad after she said she’s not?! So we can’t believe what this woman says now? This article is awful - I almost forgot what site I was on...

By all reports from all parties, the runner approached a stranger, got verbal consent from him, and they apparently redid the peck 3 times for a good photo.

Guys generally don’t care. We should but yeah... especially if they are attractive I don’t think many guys would care. It’s one of those weird double standards involving gender. It SHOULD be creepy and it would be if it was a guy kissing a girl randomly. But because the guy didn’t pull away in disgust and it was a…

the whole thing was kind of

Because NOTHING says “rebel” more than a stitched throw pillow

What could be more rebellious than white pillows!?!?

Yes. I really want to still love her, out of love for that woman from back then. :/