Sunday, October 20, 2013
Bar Etiquette
So this weekend I went out with some of my friends and one of them recently got a new boyfriend, who we'll call Tim, so she brought him with us. While we were out Tim saw some of his friends and we were all hanging out and then one of the guys wanted to buy a drink for my other friend, so she let him. As the night progressed the second guy proceeded to get more attached to my friend and wanted her to go home with him. She politely declined since she had no idea who he really was and quite frankly didn't want to go. The guy didn't seem to take it badly and shortly went to a different friend group. This is where Tim gets bitchy saying that my friend should've at least gone home with him to makeout because he was a nice guy and he bought her drinks cause it was "Bar etiquette". His girlfriend promptly straightened him out but it bothered me that a guy thought that was a thing. That unwarranted attention deserves sex.
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Just another example of male entitlement. I agree with you, the guys' ideas about this definitely shouldn't have been their attitudes towards the situation in the first place, but I'm glad that your friend was capable of telling him that this bothered her.
ReplyDeleteI am actually so glad that you brought attention to this because I have seen this happen countless times. I think it is a completely unacceptable mentality for a guy to expect sex after buying a girl a couple of watered-down vodka cranberries. This is just a great example of how women are still continually objectified and the double standards that still exist within society today. While it is completely acceptable for men to buy random women drinks at a bar and expect to sleep with them, women on the other hand are expected to be flattered and grateful. Ironically, if a woman does decide to sleep with a man she meets at a bar then she is labeled a "slut," and if the woman decides to decline she's then considered a "bitch."
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