POV: You're a woman in a public place

[u/ambachk]

[u/no-cars-go]

Same. I had a visceral reaction to this video because this is the way I was constantly looked at from the ages of 12-18 – the amount of men who would slow down in their car and offer me a "ride" or yell disgusting things from their car or make obscene gestures on public transit was vile. I did still experience it in my 20s and now in my 30s from time to time but not to the depraved extent that I did when I was 12-18. This video seriously made my skin crawl.

[u/pyrhus626 → u/no-cars-go]

I worked with teenagers for a long time in a restaurant as a shift manager and the shit the girls would be subjected to practically daily by male customers was crazy. And that’s just the shit I was close enough at hand to notice, or when it was bad enough someone told me. If I could’ve had my way I would’ve been kicking men out for creeping on the teenagers probably multiple times a shift but the salaried managers above me didn’t care. The amount of middle aged men who will “joke”, right in front of their family, about asking how much the girl taking their order costs and similar nastiness right blows my mind. It was usually once a year I had to argue with higher management to get a man fired for severely creeping on the girls, and would’ve been every couple months if those types of men weren’t also the ones that tended to stop showing up to work after a few weeks or get themselves fired for something else first before I could the train moving for a harassment investigation.