Hi everyone!
Today I was feeling very feminine. I went out with my friend downtown and it was gorgeous and I was wearing a dress, heels, lipstick and my hair was back and curly. So I looked very feminine and girly.
So, here's my story. After I said bye to my friend I walked across the street to wait for my dad to pick me up. Right as I crossed the street, this guy came riding by on a bike and whistled at me, then looked back as he kept riding. I'm thinking really, was that really necessary? So I stop because I'm waiting for my dad and he kind of keeps going then just stops and STARES at me. SO blatant. I'm thinking, okay I really don't want him to come over here, cause then I have to deal with it etc. Any girl who has ever had a guy blatantly check her out knows what I mean. If they actually come over normally with an opening line like "hey baby" or "looking good," you have to be like, please go away.
So first of all I just don't understand, I would never be interested in someone who is so tacky as to whistle at me on the street. What do you really expect? Me to fall at your knees because you are oh so charming with your whistling? No. This is what I just don't understand. After men whistle do they REALLY expect anything?
So I'm going to go all feminist here, because I am a feminist and it's hard not to relate it to this. But it just annoys me so much when these things happen. Why do you hit on me on the street and think it's okay to cat-call me or whistle at me. Just because I'm walking here, just because it's so hot out that I am wearing a short skirt doesn't mean it's somehow okay for you to say anything to me. I DON'T KNOW YOU.
Of course, maybe that's why they are saying something, because they want to get to know me. But like I said before, no I'm not going to date you or do anything with you because EW you just tried to pick me up by whistling at me.
Anyway, there's a woman in New York who started a website where she took her video camera out on the street and any man who yelled at her something like "nice ass!" she'd go up to and say, why did you just yell that at me? For the most part, they were really stunned and didn't know how to respond.
So why do it?
This is why I posted this picture of myself. Even though it's really only a picture of my hand, my lips, my nose, my ear. These are just my physical features, not ME. Though I live in this body, I'm not only my body. I have a mind, an opinion, a voice. Though you might like what you see, I'm not simply just what you see.
Thanks for listening to my rant,
Morgs
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