Reading your words took me right back to my life growing up as a teenager in an area where men felt it was ok to call to me on a daily basis, harassing me and touching me and when I ignored or rebuked I was met with aggression and threats of violence. I have had this over the years, I am in my 50's now, so it has decreased as I have got older, or course, I am less desirable to them, in their eyes, (thankfully). It is so tiresome and makes me very angry at times.
Being told to smile or cheer up or comments on what I am wearing or what I am doing made me very self conscious walking around. Thankfully in the UK we have laws about that now and although it still happens, of course, it is less often. But it still happens all the time. It is just not workmen that call you out now because you can complain about it to the site manager. Random men still harass and if you don't fall at their feet with gratefulness at their attention you will never hear the end of it with them.
As you wrote before, because of your light they want a piece of you and when you won't give it that angers them so much because they feel entitled to any woman they want and any woman that rejects them will feel it from them..
Sorry that you cannot walk around freely without having to deal with all that.
Yes! It's male harassment is so pervasive in every part of life. "If you don't fall at their feet with gratefulness you never hear the end of it"...YES!!! It's so disgusting.
These are not all my neighbors. I live in a big city, where lots of different people intermingle with each other. Harassment is part of my life and it follows me most places I go. It is not something I can escape with better neighbors. For the record, most people who live in my building are just fine. This is not a neighbor problem-it's a male harassment problem.
Reading your words took me right back to my life growing up as a teenager in an area where men felt it was ok to call to me on a daily basis, harassing me and touching me and when I ignored or rebuked I was met with aggression and threats of violence. I have had this over the years, I am in my 50's now, so it has decreased as I have got older, or course, I am less desirable to them, in their eyes, (thankfully). It is so tiresome and makes me very angry at times.
Being told to smile or cheer up or comments on what I am wearing or what I am doing made me very self conscious walking around. Thankfully in the UK we have laws about that now and although it still happens, of course, it is less often. But it still happens all the time. It is just not workmen that call you out now because you can complain about it to the site manager. Random men still harass and if you don't fall at their feet with gratefulness at their attention you will never hear the end of it with them.
As you wrote before, because of your light they want a piece of you and when you won't give it that angers them so much because they feel entitled to any woman they want and any woman that rejects them will feel it from them..
Sorry that you cannot walk around freely without having to deal with all that.
Yes! It's male harassment is so pervasive in every part of life. "If you don't fall at their feet with gratefulness you never hear the end of it"...YES!!! It's so disgusting.
I wish you a better bunch of neighbors!
These are not all my neighbors. I live in a big city, where lots of different people intermingle with each other. Harassment is part of my life and it follows me most places I go. It is not something I can escape with better neighbors. For the record, most people who live in my building are just fine. This is not a neighbor problem-it's a male harassment problem.