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[Finnegan]

do horror films typically involve rape scenes? I'm not a big horror fan, the only horror I really enjoy are ones with religious and/or supernatural themes, but I don't really recall any rape in the other horror/ slasher (ha, horror slash slasher... yeah, you're right, that's not actually funny) films that I did happen to see.

edit: actually I do remember one now that I think about it in which SPOILER ALERT: some guys raped a teenage girl and her parents found out and murdered the shit out of the rapists.
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[Mini J]

So during my many trips on public transit I've noticed that there seems to be a subset of men who are unable to sit in a seat without sprawling their legs akimbo. I can't help but find this odd; I fully understand crossing legs or sitting with legs tightly together can be uncomfortable for a guy (learned from experience), but why would anyone need their knees to be 2 feet apart? Nobody is that well-endowed.

So I am wondering, is this about trying to show some sort of dominance? Is it to try and impress women (somehow?) It always looks to me almost like a form of posturing because a) it pretty much makes it impossible to sit next to them (e.g. "I am Man, I need space!"), b) it also looks like an attempt to draw attention to their crotch (almost like monkeys using erections as threat displays to other monkeys), and c) it seems to be most common among young men of the, uh, thuggish variety (as I rarely see it done by women, men in suits, nerds, etc.), and since most such men are generally perceived as fairly low-status, maybe they feel compelled to assert themselves in whatever ways they can?

I suppose this post is primarily about machismo. I can't think of any other reason a man would sit this way besides that. Anyone else have any thoughts about this?

(This post was prompted by annoyance at a guy doing exactly this on a crowded subway.)
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[ShadowCell]

oh jesus christ

i have a hard enough time riding the bus every day with people doing that without wondering if they're doing some sort of weird sexual aggression at me, like at any moment they're going to unfurl their frills as a display of dominance and squirt blood at me and try to chase me away from the thousands of eggs they buried somewhere under the seat

thanks a lot

[Mini J]

Excellent... Enjoy your next bus ride!

I do acknowledge I might simply be overthinking this, and that it's simply bad manners.
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[ShadowCell]

obviously i need to dress in bright colors to let potential predators know that i am poisonous

[Finnegan]

I'm inclined to not read any sort of sexual motivation into it but the more we discuss these things and the more I research them the more I realize that I can't accurately infer much about the average male's sexual motivations and desires based on my own.
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we've got glow-in-the-dark fish down here that's rad

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[Sam]

I recall the shawshank redemption as a (non-horror genre) example.

[Samsally]

[Dro]

Deliverance is not a genre horror film, but it is close.