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Or sexual harassment, groping, massage?

Of course, the instant apologists (though I misplaced the link) claimed this was just the way neighbourly, friendly Texans behave. They’re apparently like this all the time. Well, besides George Bush not really being from Texas (he just pretends to be a regular Texan because it works in the polls), I’d really hate to imagine what the sexual harassment rate is like in Texas. Though to be fair, it’s easy picking on recurring alcoholics when they’re out of their usual controlled environment. But a whelp he is still.

Boing Boing: Personal space in Germany, touching, blitz-massage or Vulcan nerve pinch?

And for those that don’t think this constitutes sexual harassment, consider why Geordie didn’t give Romano Prodi a neck rub. Now that would have been just harassment of course.

Addendum: Mark Morford makes an interesting observation on guys thinking they’re ‘That Guy’ …

And when it comes to women, well, it’s all taken one step further. Or rather, downward. It’s like an awkward scene from “The Office,” where the manager everyone secretly loathes but who himself believes he is the funniest and most likable and naturally gifted guy in the room walks up to one of his female employees and grabs a mango and cracks a grossly inappropriate joke about vaginas and laughs hard and slaps everyone on the back.