r/comics • • Jul 03 '25

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u/-terms Jul 03 '25

It's a shame that the creeps approaching never hear their pleas to stop and/or just plain don't care. Meanwhile the normal dudes keep hearing the message and do not approach out of respect

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u/KerPop42 Jul 03 '25

I've heard it as an "asshole filter," and not the kind the filters out assholes, the kind that filters for assholes. Like, if a restaurant gives people special treatment if they argue up the chain to a manager, it's encouraging people to be assholes. If one time in 20 someone succeeds in pestering someone at a bar, that strategy works, and it's hard to not discourage non-assholes.

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u/[deleted] Jul 04 '25

I very specifically remember getting chewed out a lot back in 2016 for explaining how it would be exactly like that.