If you think this is a thick Wisconsin accent, you’ve never been to Wisconsin.

I like that in the corners of this gym, you can see all the banquet tables stacked, just waiting for them to put the bleachers away so they can set up for the wedding reception that will be here next.

Is it a bad thing that I can't tell there is an accent?

Everything that guy did, starting with standing there staring at her while she was trying to work out, was just ghastly social and gym etiquette. You don’t force someone to stop their workout and break their concentration. You also do not stand there and watch while someone does awkward ab work on the floor. The…

Those kind of guys are disgusting, creepy, and downright scary.

They are always hispanic men, always.

…and just like, STANDS THERE while you clearly are ignoring him and makes you second guess, Hey, dude’s still there looking at me, maybe I need to take these headp^hones off and see what he needs, perhaps there is important information to be imparted, etc, and then how much worse is his stupid comment, how little does…

oh I wasn’t upset with the cashier. I was more saying people in general who see this happening should intervene, I wouldn’t expect the cashier to. I mean i used to work in retail, I get it. The only person who has ever aggressively defended me in a situation like this was a bus driver who chewed the guy out before…

Well I only get harassed by white men. What about your upbringing explains that?

I’m not a big lighter beer person- I’m a stout and porter kind of gal. But if I am going to drink a lighter beer, it will be a weiss/hefeweizen.

“I’m not actually in charge. I get a vote, and I’m voting for a person to make decisions on subjects where I know what outcome I want, but I don’t know the right way to achieve it.”

I’m sorry that happened to you, because it sucks. In a perfect world the cashier would’ve been able to boot the dickhead from the store (and ensure that he doesn’t then wait for you outside the store in a fury because “you got him kicked out”). But honestly, if the cashier had said anything to this guy they would’ve…

In 2012 I read two blog posts in rapid succession that catapulted me from “bright curious person” into “rabid feminist”. The first was Kate Harding’s Schrodinger’s Rapist and the second was a pair of “creeper” letters on Captain Awkward.

Because exercise is a lot of effort! Not even just the working out part, but the changing your clothes, showering after, etc, really makes it feel like a chore sometimes. If I don’t work out after work, I can get straight into pajamas. If I do, then I need to change into athletic wear, exercise, then shower, and only…

I played music at a church last Easter, and when I came home, I took off my fancy clothes and hung them over the bed post, not sure whether they were dirty enough to put in the laundry pile. They’re still there.

Honestly, stories like yours give me hope, because I’ve been single so long I can barely fathom meeting anyone who hits the checkboxes you describe.

When I lived in Los Angeles, where possibly 75% of the population in my area was some kind of Hispanic ... it wasn’t even true, then. But they might have been 75% of the catcallers since they were 75% of the men. Now that I live in the whitest part of Washington state, I’ve literally only been catcalled by white guys.…

Applying for jobs is the absolute worst. You feel like you’re throwing resumes down a wishing well, and if you do get a call back, it’s rough.

I had the same revenge! I am luckily one of those people that got hotter after high school (maybe that’s everyone?) but I was at a bar with my friends during winter break and he had the nerve to come up with me to “catch up.” Like bitch? Now you are interested? Who do you think you are? Running around leaving scars?…