For that matter, is it being too out there for me to cuddle, publicly, with a friend who I am not sexually involved with? Does the friend's gender matter, in answering that question?
It all depends where you do it and the social norms of that place.
I would never do this in the office. Anyone who would would squick me.
I have done this at a Science Fiction Convention.
The hair I think you might want to be trying to split is the lesbian couple who is invited to a wedding and discusses their daughter with the strangers seated at the table with them. If people are discussing kids, I think it's fine.
What bothers me is that I have seen this sort of tactic used pre-emptively, "Well if they have an issue with people with discussing their kids, it's their problem! Everyone else can do it, so why can't us?". In theory, I agree, but it felt like the strangers were being baited. There's a line. I don't know where it is. If I claimed to know, I'd be full of it.
And again I think I'm feeling like I'm being painted with a broad brush as someone who uses a broad brush.
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For that matter, is it being too out there for me to cuddle, publicly, with a friend who I am not sexually involved with? Does the friend's gender matter, in answering that question?
It all depends where you do it and the social norms of that place.
The hair I think you might want to be trying to split is the lesbian couple who is invited to a wedding and discusses their daughter with the strangers seated at the table with them. If people are discussing kids, I think it's fine.
What bothers me is that I have seen this sort of tactic used pre-emptively, "Well if they have an issue with people with discussing their kids, it's their problem! Everyone else can do it, so why can't us?". In theory, I agree, but it felt like the strangers were being baited. There's a line. I don't know where it is. If I claimed to know, I'd be full of it.
And again I think I'm feeling like I'm being painted with a broad brush as someone who uses a broad brush.