Guest wrote:They are all squabbling about that because Tghe said men not paying could be declared as a "hate crime ".
I'd hope he's trolling but I've the suspicion he's really not.
If I'm honest, I
think I can sort of, maybe, a little bit, see what he's trying to suggest.
In the case of the "twitter trial", Stephanie Guthrie started slurring Gregory Elliot's work on social media and then, when he responded in kind, she went to the police and reported Elliot for harassment.
The "unfairness" of that situation being that she thought it was okay to attack him on social media but then, when he responded in a similar way, she decided
that was harassment.
I suspect that Retford is suggesting a similar thing might happen with regard to (and I can't really believe I'm writing this) paying the bill at a restaurant.
The woman could agree to pay half the bill and then renege on that agreement, leaving the man to pay the entire bill.
And then, when the man decided not to pay the entire bill and the police got involved, the woman might be believed when she claimed it was all the guy's fault.
Of course, that's nonsense for so many different reasons that it's hard to find a part of it that
isn't nonsense.
I
was going to go through it and point out all the nonsense but, frankly, I can't be arsed.
Suffice to say that if you date a woman who says she'll pay half the bill and then doesn't, pay the whole bill and then don't date her again if it pisses you off so much. Problem solved.