"Not taking no for an answer. Whether they're asking for your number, a date, or even to be 'friends.' They think they're demonstrating how interested they are, but they are actually being creepy (at best). I had a guy approach me, tell me I was beautiful, and then ask for my number. I politely declined. He asked for my socials, and I declined again. He said he just wanted to be friends, so I showed him my wedding band. Shockingly, he no longer wanted to be friends 🙄."
"Showing off how physically strong you are. All you are doing is pointing out that you could be a danger to me if you wanted to be."
"Easily when a stranger (or anyone I'm not close with) puts his hand on my lower back as he walks behind me as a way to kind of move me out the way. At the end of the day, a man wouldn't do that to another man. It's a gendered touch. I don't like having someone's hands on me like that, and I don't like that men subconsciously view it as appropriate to touch me in a way they wouldn't touch each other."
"I'm a mom of three, and with every. single. baby, if I was out with them alone (without my husband or friends), it was ALWAYS men, usually much older men, who would saunter over to chat with me or 'check on' the baby. They always want to get super close to their face, ask invasive questions about them, and it makes me very uncomfortable."
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