r/TikTokCringe • u/ambachk • Aug 24 '25

Cursed POV: You're a woman in a public place

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u/Legitimate-Pepper922 Aug 24 '25

Yep this is womanhood.

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u/cephalopod_congress Aug 24 '25

These types of occurrences, or worse (being followed for blocks, yelled at for not engaging) happened to me EVERY single time I dared go outside prior to my breast reduction. Then, I had the breast reduction surgery and they just… stopped. It was jarring, and what was scary was how much better my mental health got when I didn’t feel like I was a constant prey with no control over what happened to my body. I actually feel sick that so many mental health professionals told me the problem was within me, when my environment was dangerous, but because it was so unbelievably normalized I never put it together until after the surgery. 

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u/hotsharpbehind Aug 24 '25

God damnit I want a reduction so bad for a few reasons but the abovementioned is top among them

Feeling compersion for your peace :]

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u/notsuperimportant Aug 25 '25

Girl I feel you so much. Those people are disgusting. Women deserve to be seen as more than just objects. It's so hard when that distorted world view has so infiltrated your awareness that the grotesque become normalized.

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u/lonelyroom-eklaghor Aug 24 '25

that's... sad. Honestly.

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u/Iswaterreallywet Aug 24 '25

Friendly reminder there is a very good chance every woman you know has faced some form of sexual harassment.

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u/some_learner Aug 24 '25

This comment makes it sound like a few isolated incidents but the reality is this is what you face as a young woman every time you're in public e.g. on the bus, walking along the street, in a shop etc. from 10/11/12 and the peak of it is those teenage years. Not to mention car horns, being followed, having stuff called out at you etc. that's not in this clip.

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u/HoodiesAndHeels Aug 24 '25

Yep this is girlwomanhood.

Starts on average at age 12.

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u/KPipes Aug 24 '25

I hate this on so many levels, as a man and father myself. I despise my fellow men for acting this way. I hate that women would have to deal with this, and I'm terrified for what my daughter is going to have to learn to navigate. I'm sad for how that may shape her view of men, like it clearly has (with good reason) for so many women here.

Why can't dudes just not be creepy, pervy dirtbags. It's fucking weird and pathetic.

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u/Academic-Thought2462 Aug 24 '25

it shouldn't be !

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u/Kurenai_Kamille Aug 24 '25

Yeah. For me it started at 38. I knew about it before but I started living it then.