You might want to keep your voice down or everyone's going to know what an asshole you are.

[cu_sith]

Is what I probably should have said to the guy who decided to shout at me that 'people like you shouldn't wear shorts'. What I actually yelled was 'and people like you should shut the fuck up. Your point would be?', but I was very cheerful about it and a pair of young women walking past were grinning. I'm pretty sure it wasn't at the blokes, so I

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[rockwell_666]

An alternative response could have been: "If I looked like you I'd shave my arse and walk on my hands!" :-)

[cu_sith]

I was very tired at the time. I figure the absolute lack-of-upset cheerful attitude redeems me.

[cu_sith]

They really are. They were also, to my shock and amazement, student-aged, middle-class white men. Whodathunkit?

Fortunately I've had a lot of practice at not giving Assholes On The Street what they want.
Getting angry, upset or frightened is a bloody bad idea, but treating them like they're a joke or irrelevant tends to work pretty damn well.

[grikmeer]

I'm young, white, middle-class and male: I can officially do nothing right :P

[cu_sith]

You have fairly good taste in television from what I recall.

(It's more something I've been keeping track of in an idle way. In my personal experience, for outright abusive street harrassment that particular demographic is in the lead. Different groups seem to favour different forms of Being An Entitled Sexist Dick.)

[hairyears]

People like you should wear shorts: you brighten the day.

[cu_sith]

Why thank you, sir. My knee-high pink 'n black socks were probably doing an adequate job of adding some colour.

[pinkdormouse]

You definitely should wear shorts!

[cu_sith]

I trust your opinion on this.

[rockwell_666]

I second that opinion! :-)

[blackanise]

I know we haven't talked in forever, but fuck that douchebag. :|||

You're a very pretty girl and guys just like to be assholes, especially if they can't find a woman, which is probably what crawled up those two's asses and died. I'm glad you know what's what, regardless. <3

[cu_sith]

Dude! We really should talk more.

They came off looking rather the worse to the folks passing by, so I'm content with the world.

[blackanise]

Seriouslyyy! :< What's it been, only about...five years?

This is good. At least the general public still recognize when people are being dicks. seriously, there's not excuse for that.

[cu_sith]

No time at all!

They were following a girl down the street yelling abuse at her. The girl failed to get angry and actually seemed to find them rather amusing. The English like a sense of humour.