Certain dudes saying they're afraid to talk to women in public in case they're accused of harassment?
Well, women have to constantly worry that if they're friendly to a male stranger he'll take it as a cue to touch her, follow her, get angry if she stops talking to him, etc etc.
Well, women have to constantly worry that if they're friendly to a male stranger he'll take it as a cue to touch her, follow her, get angry if she stops talking to him, etc etc.
I still remember the guy who told me he liked my shirt and my haircut and when I genuinely thanked him and kept walking, he started walking with me, saying he was also going this way, and THEN started hitting on me.
And then suddenly it occurred to me that I was only a block away from my home and would he keep looking at me even if I ran away, checking where I was walking into. I DIDN'T KNOW!
God, I WISH I didn't have to brace myself when a presumably straight male stranger strikes up a conversation.
I WISH I could trust that any male stranger who approaches me with baseline treat me like a fellow human being instead of a target to hit.
And while queer guys can still be misogynistic, I feel think sometimes I let my guard down because so many queer guys I know are so GREAT to me. So when I give a male stranger the benefit of the doubt and he proves me wrong, I get so mad at MYSELF.
