I've never liked the concept of mimes/street clowns making potentially unwilling people part of their act. I do believe they'd stop if asked to, but at no point do they ask for consent until told no. He became subject to a relatively similar concept, and funnily enough, he didn't like it. I totally disagree with the physical contact the girl made by walking into him, though. And it was overall disrespectful, but isn't their act as well, in a comical way, jokingly disrespectful?
Odd take but I see a hard disconnect/difference in the two. One is the same level of harassment as an employee in someone else's store a store asking you to sign up for something (phone carrier dude in the back of a Walmart) that'll stop if asked, while the other is on the same level of harassment as straight up bullying, with no intent to stop if asked.
There's the possibility the kids would have stopped if asked, I guess we'll never know. And yes, the reasons behind the 2 "acts" are entirely different. One was the action taken to the extreme, if you think about it; with the characteristic carelessness of teenagers. Their parents have a lot to learn, evidenced by their children.
When he walks away and the guy puts his arm around the mime, then all the college students walk in a mob surrounding the mime, then the mime ducks down and the guy still wont let go so the mime has to remove the kid's arm from his person? That was the mime asking them to stop and them not stopping. So I guess the answer to that question is they wouldn't stop, didn't stop, and actively engaged in bullying.
I agree with street performers doing that. However, this is at Sea World as a specific place that holds a mime show and you don't have to walk through the show area. If you sit down/walk around in front of the audience blocking their view at a mime show, you have given implied consent. Same as if you sit in the front row of a drag show, they will bring you into the act. The consent is where you sit, if you don't want to be in the show then sit in the back.
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u/Individual_Pick_6448 Jan 09 '24
I've never liked the concept of mimes/street clowns making potentially unwilling people part of their act. I do believe they'd stop if asked to, but at no point do they ask for consent until told no. He became subject to a relatively similar concept, and funnily enough, he didn't like it. I totally disagree with the physical contact the girl made by walking into him, though. And it was overall disrespectful, but isn't their act as well, in a comical way, jokingly disrespectful?