He was touching your beard. Damn, that guy needed to learn boundaries.

omg I never go out dancing but I was out for my bff’s bachelorette this weekend. there was this one creepy dude there who had clearly come by himself who thought that a good way to meet a girl was to just sort of dance next to her and slowly get closer until, in his mind, he was dancing with her. our group drove him…

Ugh. Last time I was out with a group of girlfriends, this one dude kept coming up behind my friend and attempting to dance and she kept OBVIOUSLY shifting away... he wasn’t getting the hint so I finally stepped in and said “Dude! She’s not interested, take a hint!” She was so thankful. And thankfully I was there and…

Last time I went to the club a guy asked me to dance, so I did and in the middle of dancing he just casually rested his hand on my breasts. Like, yep, we danced half a song, I guess this is what happens now. When I walked away my friend was like ‘It seemed like you were okay with it.’

When I was living in Japan it was really common for random guys in clubs to come up and try to tussle my hair unsolicited. This was my nightmare as I wear a wig due to severe trichlomania. I once threw my back out trying to swerve away from one of them.

Men think they can just touch us and its infuriating I once had a cop roll up to me and put his arm over my shoulders...he didn’t take kindly to me asking him to remove it he tried to arrest me among other things...and that’s the story of how 17 year old me realized that guys can be racist and sexist at the same…

I was once hanging with a Prussia cosplayer at a con, I was Harley Quinn. We were chatting and suddenly she just reached out and grabbed my chest (at no point had anything we had said or done indicated I wanted a boob-grab). I flailed in panic and ended up the bad guy since I accidentally smacked her daughter who was…

Being considered touchable, even by you, is still not a compliment. I’m sure she’d rather you’d be inspired to respect her rather than want to be a perv with permission.

I don’t even like it when people look at me for too long in public. The ONLY time strangers have touched me in public it has been grabby dudes and one time I should have called the goddamn cops because YOUR HANDS DO NOT GO UP MY SKIRT IN THE MIDDLE OF A STORE, WITH TWO OF YOUR BOYS WATCHING, YOU FUCKING ASSHOLE.

I’m with Jessica on this one. I once had to twist this guy’s arm while threatening to break it if he put his fucking hands on me one more time. This is after I had repeatedly told him to back the fuck up during one of those stupid “bear weekend” that was being held in San Francisco.

“He had been watching us all night”

Wow, sounds like the same guy I’ve encountered. Yes, please mansplain to me how I should bask in the glow of any attention given to me by a man, whether unwanted or not. Then dick has the nerve to call me a fat bitch when I don’t graciously accept his offer of a drink after my friends and I try to ignore his rant. Get…

Seriously. And even when they ask ...

I had a dude ask if he could touch me at a bar. I said, in no uncertain terms, “No.” He asked again, and I said No. He tried to touch me and I grabbed his wrist and stabbed him with my thumbnail. He was then thrown out of the bar.

Even when the ask, they’re not really asking.

Last time I went to a club this guy lectured my friends and I because apparently he’d been watching us all night and every time rando dudes came up behind us, we “ran away”. Sorry I’m shifting away from gropers. During his speech, another guy came up, put his arm around me tightly and asked if I wanted a beer. If he…

Personally, I think we all need to start wearing hoola hoops to institute mandatory no-touch personal zones.

Nope. We did have one, but antichoicers in government regulated them out of existence. Closed in ‘06. We do have an abortion clinic, but due to a combination of high demand and the lack of resources, they prioritize trans health (because they are the ONLY clinic willing to provide a trans safe space in the region,…

I mean, we’re not talking about creating characters and then gender-swapping them. We’re talking about a preproduction process where the writers might say something like “alright, and then Nate and Sam go into this old man’s house” and then someone says “what if it’s a woman?” and everyone’s like “hey yeah.” Maybe…

As a concept artist, I think asking that question consistently is really empowering, actually, as long as it’s responded to appropriately. It’s not a “can we fit a female/nonbinary/minority into this character?” sort of thing, it should be moreso “is this character better as something other than a while, straight…

Diversity is a good thing. Looking at every character and seeing if they should be female seems complete crazy to me. It’s rare that the gender matters at all in games (I mean storywise, not representation),so how do you have that conversation?

I like my Kinja like I like my coffee!