• MrJameGumb@lemmy.worldEnglish
    97·
    30 days ago

    Here’s the article

    In the X post, which boasts 1.6 million views, she recalled how a male stranger sitting behind her handed her a “piece of paper and said, “Take this and read it later. It’s not creepy."

    Yeah, can’t see anything creepy about that lol

    • kautau@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1021·
      30 days ago

      lol the title of the article is “Passenger horrified”

      Then the article:

      “It was a handwritten note complimenting my hair at length … and [a] $100 bill,” exclaimed the flabbergasted gal.

      However, the passenger explained in a follow-up post how she didn’t find it creepy because her mile-high admirer “didn’t leave a number and there was clearly no expectation or hope that we would interact again.”

      Apparently it’s fine to do weird shit as long as there’s money involved

      • MountingSuspicion@reddthat.comEnglish
        67·
        30 days ago

        Honestly, the money makes it weirder imho. I think it’s valid not to want someone to take a compliment the wrong way so you say it as you’re leaving or in a context where it’s clear you don’t want anything from them, but being so extra about it is weird imho. Like, sure he didn’t leave a number, but if he just casually complimented her that probably would have been fine and not weird at all. I imagine the note was an excuse to add the money, and he said open later to avoid her feeling weird about the money. It’s his money he can ostensibly do what he likes with it, but I would feel at least a bit creeped out if someone randomly gave me money because they liked my appearance.

        I hate articles that are essentially “we turned a tweet into an essay”, but I don’t think the takeaway is that money makes things less creepy.

        • anomnom@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          15·
          30 days ago

          Yeah, a note that just said your hair is amazing or whatever and have a nice day would have been way less weird I think.

          • MountingSuspicion@reddthat.comEnglish
            1·
            29 days ago

            I obviously didn’t read the article, so I have no idea if it was chatGPT, but I try to stay away from this kind of piece because it generally has little if any journalistic merit regardless of if it was AI or not.

      • MrJameGumb@lemmy.worldEnglish
        7·
        30 days ago

        It looked like the consensus in the comments was that he probably snipped some of her hair to take home with him without her noticing before giving her the note with the money in it

      • bluewing@lemm.eeEnglish
        6·
        29 days ago

        The real take away is that the $100 indicates the weirdo is wealthy enough to just give her, a stranger, that money for no apparent reason. So if you are wealthy, doing weird stuff is fine.

        • Twinklebreeze @lemmy.worldEnglish
          4·
          30 days ago

          I think it’s actually chemistry. If you have chemistry with the person it probably won’t be creepy. Now looks, and money, okay a part in chemistry but the two issue isn’t ugly, poor people. It’s people that don’t seem to know it care if someone is in to them.

        • Cryophilia@lemmy.worldEnglish
          11·
          29 days ago

          If I had a dollar for every woman who called me ugly, women wouldn’t think I was ugly anymore

          • MrJameGumb@lemmy.worldEnglish
            2·
            30 days ago

            Oh ok, I was talking about the link for the article. Yeah I tried the X link too it looks like it’s been taken down. I’m guessing since they linked the article directly to that ladies personal Twitter account she probably got sick of hearing about it and deleted it lol

  • SomeAmateur@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    36·
    30 days ago

    The note compimented her hair at length and had a $100 bill

    "However, the passenger explained in a follow-up post how she didn’t find it creepy because her mile-high admirer ‘didn’t leave a number and there was clearly no expectation or hope that we would interact again.’

    The X commentariat begged to differ."

  • exasperation@lemm.eeEnglish
    242·
    30 days ago

    The worst she can say is “no”

    But the thing is she’s not gonna say “no”, she would never say “no” because of the implication.

  • NocturnalMorning@lemmy.worldEnglish
    13·
    30 days ago

    It’s like being gay, if you say, no homo before, it’s okay, youre still straight… So, by that logic,if you say, not creepy beforehand, it makes it not creepy.