"it's foolishly simplistic to think trolls only target women."

"Violent images are unsettling because of the violence, not the gender of the victim."

What lunchcoma said.

I read Brave New World in high school and the rest of the class acted like I was a freak for raving about how great their lives seemed. Um, HELLO, am I the only one who read the parts about the sex and the soma?!

You are awesome.

Agreed. It's the groups that make me the most nervous.

I encourage my husband not to respond when men cat call me. I'm too afraid of it escalating and him getting hurt like this poor guy did.

I've seen a lot of it. I guess we're just really good at confirming our own biases. I think it's great what this man did and it's tragic what happens to him. I hope he's okay.

No. They aren't. I read the comments on this story and the story about the woman and her husband having a conversation about cat calling. I didn't see anyone say that. You're either trolling or confused.

Not to mention that would probably fall into the "asking for it" category if standing up for yourself resulted in this.

I have had a few guys go straight for the crotch and it is just the most humiliating, nauseating feeling. So much worse than other groping. The more I talk to women the more I think every woman in the entire world has been sexually assaulted, and many of them have been raped. Everyone has (at least) one story.

Ew, I'm sorry. You should have told him, "We do that girl thing in an attempt to avoid a scary confrontation like this one!" And then kicked him in the balls.

Honestly, it's crazy that it's so common because it's assault. You are sexually assaulting someone when you purposefully grind your penis into a stranger FROM BEHIND, so they may never have even laid eyes on your face. Sigh. I went to engineering school in a remote, northern part of the country. I am (sadly) an…

I'm 30 and almost never go to club-type bars anymore but, looking back on my crazier years, it absolutely blows my mind that any guy ever thought it would be okay to just come up behind a dancing woman and start rubbing his dick on her. And it's gross how common that behavior was/is. NOT A COOL WAY TO PICK UP CHICKS.

I think the guy on another thread was being such an asshole that he got everyone all riled up. Your comment was pretty reasonable, and it is pretty normal to compliment someone's appearance in a club/bar, especially if it's about her dress/hairdo or something else she wasn't just born with. But most women prefer you…

Okay that last one made me actually gag.

Eggshelljones only stated one topic you should keep to yourself when approaching a woman you don't know (hint: her physical appearance). You interpreted that as "don't talk to women." What do you think that says about you?

Fine. Then consider our perspective: If we do not profusely thank a man for his "compliment" on our physical appearance, it is not too uncommon for him to respond negatively by calling us a bitch or a cunt. It is also not too uncommon for them to CONTINUE to give us "positive" attention after we have made it clear…

It's not about being offended. It's about being nervous/anxious/uncomfortable about something that could have happened, BECAUSE IT OFTEN HAPPENS. "It" being the negative, sometimes aggressive, way many men respond when a woman is not interested in their compliments or advances.

I hope you've seen the other replies to jdels10, from men and women, that agree with you. People like that piss me off and are the main reason some people view feminists as "man haters." Jdels10 appears to be a very angry, confused misandrist, not a feminist.