Exactly. I don’t know a single woman I’ve ever met that hasn’t experienced this.

RAPE. RAPE IS A MISDEMEANOR.

me rn

THIS IS NOT GOOD ENOUGH!

ugh i am counting down hours till i can go home and have a cigarette.

oh good does this mean I can have a cigarette today too?

Yeah. I agree with Potatoe - you are in more danger. This is less because women are physically weaker (age, alcohol and weapons are the great equalizers), but because they are *perceived* as prey - the guys not as much. It is normalized in our shared consciousness that women who put themselves ‘out there’ have to…

I walked out on an intended ONS once because while he thought it was cute to ask me why I felt safe going into a strange man’s house, he didn’t think it was cute when I pulled a knife out of my bag and asked why he felt safe bringing a strange woman into his house.

Yup. It’s the same thing. I can’t believe the 90s are considered like a while ago until I remember that a whole other decade and a half has passed.

“I tried to be as polite as possible.”

Mine too. I truly wonder if anyone but a woman would understand this feeling.

Dr. Pepper or gtfo

Sorry it took all day but I had to wait until I got home to look at my folders and find this info. I didn’t think to get the writer and title of everything I photocopied back then but I had it for these 2 books so here you go:

As a woman Tony’s age, I’m rolling my eyes hard. No one is paying attention to a woman my age unless she looks like Jennifer Lopez, and that group is comprised entirely of Jennifer Lopez.

Oh no—I wasn’t indicting you. I believe you, more or less. I totally get the complaint because there’s more than a few grains of truth to it.

my totally gorgeous, successful, 32 year old friend does online dating. She does meet men this way but yea....the majority want well under 30. She is open to ages...27-45. It is slim pickings. She says she has been told,point blank “too old”. At 32. Men her age and older. 32 isn’t too old FOR ANYTHING in life

That is so true because the ONLY time I call a woman “ma’am” at work is when I am trying really hard not to swear at her. :)

The first Sir was a brutal one. I was 25. She was 20-ish. I thought she was checking me out. She wanted change for a meter. Oh, the humanity.

Right? It’s not like he gets called ma’am, which more often than not is just shorthand for “bitch.”