Oberon,
Well, we disagree on this, then. You say you see the examples given as being in line and being the result of past developements. I see them in explicit violation or better: abusing of these develeopements that led to the status quo to whom I consider this behavior being provoking.
I said it twioce above, and again now: when reading the story the first time, I immediately felt personally provoked, and when imagining to be sitting beside them in a poublic place, I would feel uncomfortable, irritated, and being confronted by what I consider to be unacceptable public behavior or display. That means nothing else than that my limits of tolerance and social shame - that everybody of us has to varying degrees - have been reached, and they were stepping over that proverbial red line. and I nwpuld react to that. Like i wpould react to a naked couple sitting in the hus, or already have reacted to people making noise in the movies, or that guy in the train who mistook the compartment with his personal sleeping area and letting his feet and hands fly around all over the banks. On the other hands I have seen goths and pounks who looked really querer, nevertheless behaved acceptable, sometimes even friendly and helpful. Clothing alone can be a problem (lcking clothing, or sexually provoking clothing), but in these cases named in this thread is not.
Can't help it, we disagree.
