Street Harrassment
I get a lot of it. So what if I'm pretty and tall. So what if I dress nicely and wear jewelry and high heels. What part of this gives random people the permission to come up to me and interrupt my day?
Today I put on a cute dress and heels, went to the comic store to pick up my subscriptions and then decided to do a little toy hunting before I went home. I parked at the TRU and while I was walking through the parking lot, a man called to me from his parked car. As I was in public in broad daylight with enough people around, I decided to give the dude the benefit of the doubt and walked a little closer. It didn't sound at first like he was being rude. As soon as I got closer, he got out of his car and approached me and started going on about how beautiful I was. I cut him off with "I'm sorry, I don't want to be hit on" and walked away, heading into the store.
Adding insult to insult, the store had nothing but Bumblebees. I headed back to my car, and tweeted about the weird guy on my phone. I hear a tapping at my window and the fucker is right outside my car! SKDJHFKSLJDHFKJSD He's trying to talk to me, but there is no fucking way I'm rolling down my window for him. I make an angry face and wave my hand at him dismissively until he leaves.
It scared the shit out of me.
I have no idea what his purpose was in continuing to talk to me. It doesn't even matter if he was trying to apologize. I gave him a clear answer that I didn't want to be bothered the first time and he feels the need to invade my space in an even more disturbing way. Maybe he was angry at being shot down? I have no idea how to gauge that. There were far too many dangerous possibilities for me to open that window.
When will men understand the privilege they hold over women and check their behavior?
This video helps me feel better when I'm feeling upset over things like this. We need more people to speak up to the people in their lives and get them to stop.
Today I put on a cute dress and heels, went to the comic store to pick up my subscriptions and then decided to do a little toy hunting before I went home. I parked at the TRU and while I was walking through the parking lot, a man called to me from his parked car. As I was in public in broad daylight with enough people around, I decided to give the dude the benefit of the doubt and walked a little closer. It didn't sound at first like he was being rude. As soon as I got closer, he got out of his car and approached me and started going on about how beautiful I was. I cut him off with "I'm sorry, I don't want to be hit on" and walked away, heading into the store.
Adding insult to insult, the store had nothing but Bumblebees. I headed back to my car, and tweeted about the weird guy on my phone. I hear a tapping at my window and the fucker is right outside my car! SKDJHFKSLJDHFKJSD He's trying to talk to me, but there is no fucking way I'm rolling down my window for him. I make an angry face and wave my hand at him dismissively until he leaves.
It scared the shit out of me.
I have no idea what his purpose was in continuing to talk to me. It doesn't even matter if he was trying to apologize. I gave him a clear answer that I didn't want to be bothered the first time and he feels the need to invade my space in an even more disturbing way. Maybe he was angry at being shot down? I have no idea how to gauge that. There were far too many dangerous possibilities for me to open that window.
When will men understand the privilege they hold over women and check their behavior?
This video helps me feel better when I'm feeling upset over things like this. We need more people to speak up to the people in their lives and get them to stop.
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