I will drink a nonalcoholic drink in solidarity.

It's just so weird and foreign to me. I never feel like making someone else feel small to make myself feel better.

You're completely right though, and well described.

He seemed relatively sane but who knows?

In most games I usually go for halberds if they're an option.

I empathize with this experience so much. I've had versions of it so many times. I'm so sorry that creep did that to you.

To be fair, he did call you the c-word.

I stand corrected!

I do also carry a knife, but for much more dangerous situations than this, as all my training has been not to bring out a potentially deadly weapon until you're in a situation that is, in fact, potentially deadly.

Or nobody fuck this guy ever again, for the rest of his life.

My experience is that the unattractive ones pull the "just being friendly" schtick, and the attractive ones just yell obscenities or hit on you than call you a bitch if you say no

I think the wife and kids thing might be an issue!

Oh come on, you know I mean that they know they have no chance with a woman who looks like she's in her 20s. They're not going to overcome a 30 year old age difference by hitting on strangers on the street and they know it.

Thanks, dude! It's not the creepiest thing that's ever happened to me from dudes on the street, but it wasn't great. I guess one thing about getting a little older is that it happens less than it used to.

That's one of my favorite Simpsons gags, when Burns says he always has his mace and then points to a giant one, though it's actually a flail he's pointing to.

I am! I had a really good rest of the day that day so I brushed it off pretty easily. That is a neighborhood guy, though, and if he tries something again he's getting maced.

This is going to make me sound egotistical, but in my neighborhood it's always guys who 100% know they have no chance. I don't mean that I'm some stunning specimen, I mean they're like 50 year old dudes, and I look younger than I am too. It's guys who are doing it just to make a woman uncomfortable, or because they…

A couple weeks ago I was walking home from lunch, and a man said hi to me on the street. Because most women have been trained from birth to be nice no matter what I'm a sucker, I said hello back. This apparently was taken as an invitation by the man, who grabbed my hand with a fairly strong grip and would not let go…

Yeah, shocking that it's upsetting to have to go to court over your bodily autonomy as a woman.

What functional, important difference is there between white supremacists and Nazis? Both should be made to live in fear.