Those other commenters are being dicks to you but I am in your corner. That was bad management.

Don't be friendly to men; it only encourages them.

i think i would stay about the same.

Whoa, sorry. How violent. Someone tugged at your arm! I stand corrected. hahahaha.

I thought that's what it would be too— it would've been funnier. It would also have been a stronger statement about harassment. Women don't want people complimenting and giving them things and crowning them Queen as they walk the streets; paradise is being left alone.

My theory: it has something to do with the fragility of unearned and unjust privilege. The more fragile your sense of domination or superiority, the harder you're going to fight to protect it, and the more alert you'll be to the slightest perceived "threat" to your position.

Isn't that how liberation works? Only one group of people can have equality at a time? NO? WELL GODDAMN.

I know I'm late to the party but just wanted to say thank you for yet another framing of street harassment I hadn't been able to articulate. From now on when a man says "they are just being friendly" I can point out that if they were just being friendly I'd have seen them saying hello to every guy they passed to. You…

Exactly. I was just in a situation last week where a guy on the street asked the borrow the lighter he just saw me using. Yeah, maybe this won't always turn into a weird situation but it did. Guy asks me a lot of questions. What I am I up to? Going home. Where do you live? Nondescript answer. I'm looking for a bar,…

Heyyyyyyy fuckhead, transgender people are still men and women (excepting the occasional non-binary person but let's work on you not filing trans people under the same heading as aliens and animals before we get into that one).

Maybe they live in better neighborhoods.. I acknowledge/am acknowledged by lots men I pass on the street. Mind you, that's usually only when it's just the two of us, and, like I said, it's to put put each other at ease. It would never happen on a crowded street - no need. Didn't mean to detract from the fact that…

It has everything to do with your claim.

They don't do it to men. They don't.

I have to jump in and disagree here. Men casually greet each other all the time, either with a nod or a "wh'sup".. it's our way of saying "I'm not a threat to you".. ironically, the exact opposite of what women experience.

"Do you ever leave your house?

"So how do you meet people?"

"I wonder if they edit out the ones where she is approached by a tall and handsome stranger, that is her type, and she is totally into it?"

Look how fucking stupid you are.

Is your receptionist a stranger? I presume she knows you and sees you every day? And that you don't suddenly appear beside her desk at random times while she's working and demand conversation out of nowhere? How would you feel if strangers walked into your place of business and began conversations with her out of…

It does if you aren't saying it to men who pass by. If you wouldn't jump beside a strange man walking along and suddenly demand a conversation, it's sexual harassment to do it to a woman. And frankly, if you would do it to a strange man you have boundary issues anyway.