Maybe that's part of it - the knowing what it feels like to be ogled - he may well consider the attention he is giving them, positive as its root is, to be a good thing or a compliment, not realising how it would feel to be the recipient.
I'll have to be very careful in how I challenge this, he takes any criticism so badly - the whole, 'oh i'm such a horrible horrible person, no wonder I'm alone, what a nasty person I must be' type reaction - it's sad, he was horribly bullied as a teen and now he has various problems as a result.
Ah well. I will bring it up using your concept of how it feels for the girls maybe.
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Date: 2011-09-07 08:48 pm (UTC)I'll have to be very careful in how I challenge this, he takes any criticism so badly - the whole, 'oh i'm such a horrible horrible person, no wonder I'm alone, what a nasty person I must be' type reaction - it's sad, he was horribly bullied as a teen and now he has various problems as a result.
Ah well. I will bring it up using your concept of how it feels for the girls maybe.
Thanks.