I stop in my tracks when the people coming at me aren’t getting out of the way. They usually go around me. For the record, I always stick to the right hand side of the sidewalk.

I have actually cat-hissed at people who get too close to me. Just as effective and less germs.

Italian men are shameless, full stop. And especially in Rome. My family went on a trip to Italy when I was 18 and my sister was 10. The men ogled me, but they also openly stared and harassed my 10 year old sister. I thought my mom was going to ham on one of them.

Can you talk to the women that apologize to me for walking near them? Women say ‘sorry’ for stepping out of an elevator I was waiting to get in, and I’m standing to the side. A woman drove near me yesterday, meekly mouthed ‘so sorry’ evidently for driving in a garage. These women need your help.

I did this for a while at 5'2". They did not move and dammit it hurts running into people. So I have folded and I move. But I’ve been working out. I’m about to get back out there and reclaim my rightful space because follow sidewalk traffic rules bro! Walk on your side!

Started doing this one day when I realized I was a nearly six-foot-tall 2 sport athlete in college. Turns out most of them move. And the ones who don’t generally walk away worse off than I do. It’s awesome.

I do, too, but I think I’m just going to start biting. Either they move or i go to jail. Win/win.

SLAAAAAAYYYYYY!

In a similar but unrelated note, I now bump into men who walk right into my path instead of moving to the side as we pass on narrow sidewalks.