motherbychoice:

salt-sass-and-lyrium:

flungouttaspace:

me: it’s awkward when men approach me because i don’t know how to turn them down without putting myself at risk

some idiot: um just tell them you’re gay sweaty

meanwhile,straight men:

Worth noting: She told the dude several times before, politely, that she wasn’t interested and he wouldn’t take no for an answer and kept following and pestering her. After turning him down multiple times, she finally said she was gay, and he snapped and started attacking her. He climbed on her windshield, kicked it in and shattered it, causing glass to get in her eyes.

Also worth noting iirc, there were numerous witnesses and not one person did anything to help this woman. They all saw this man pestering her, her turning him down, repeatedly, and him jumping up on her car to kick her windshield in and her driving to try and shake him off, that not working, and her jumping from the car to flee. And no one did anything. The police never caught him.

“Since he did this and got away with it, he had no repercussions,” she said. “He’s going to think ‘if a girl rejects me, I can do this to her. I didn’t get caught last time.’ ” (source)

How about instead of “just tell them you’re gay” we teach men how to take no for an answer?

The people in the reblogs going ‘but girls do this too.’ Okay. So… make a post about it? Do SOMETHING to bring attention to the problem outside of this post? When you ONLY bring that shit up in order to diminish or invalidate stories like this, your concern doesn’t seem at all genuine.

Let’s stop turning men and the real problems they face in this world into cannon fodder in this war y’all are waging against feminism. Okay? Good. Thanks.