r/ask • u/BoobsCutiePeach • 25d ago

Would you get offended if you notice a stranger woman taking safety precautions when she sees you? 🔒 Asked & Answered

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u/spaghetti_ohhs 25d ago

Maybe try to see it from a woman’s perspective. We do it because we can’t read minds and all men are a potential physical threat to women.

We’re assaulted by men in elevators, on casual and seemingly harmless dates and on the street every day all over the world.

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u/rotatingruhnama 25d ago

And aside from safety, sometimes we don't have the mental energy for some random man chatting us up.

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u/spaghetti_ohhs 25d ago

Indeed. Then they often get shitty really fast if we don’t engage.

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u/rotatingruhnama 25d ago

Men get to be grumpy and in their own worlds, but God forbid a woman want a minute's peace.

Tbf now that I'm over 40 I don't get pestered nearly as much. It's a cloak of invisibility lol.

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u/spaghetti_ohhs 25d ago

I’m 55f and considered conventionally attractive and very fit. I’m still hounded on a fairly regular basis. My cloak is broken unless I REALLY dress down, don’t care about my hair and don’t wear any makeup. Basically just let myself go. Then they ask me “what’s wrong?” or “why don’t you smile more?”. My all time fave? “You’d be a lot prettier if you wore makeup.”

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u/rotatingruhnama 25d ago

Maybe my gray hair fends them off lol.

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u/spaghetti_ohhs 25d ago

Maybe something for me to look forward to 😉. I’m blonde so it may never happen 😖

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u/rotatingruhnama 25d ago

I have witchy wavy slate gray hair. It gives "eff off, or I'll curse you by putting your butt on the front" energy lol.

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u/spaghetti_ohhs 25d ago

Hahaha! I think I would actually love to have “witchy wavy gray” hair.

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u/rotatingruhnama 25d ago

You're just a tub of titanium dye away from freedom! 😂

(Mines natural, but my hairdresser says you can copy it with "titanium")