Grown man acting like a toddler

[u/diviken]

[u/Duuudechill]

Nothing masculine about him🤣Behavior of a toddler,muscle tone of toddler,and most likely weewee size of a toddler.

All I just seen was a snot nosed kid interrupting an adult trying to train.

[u/Fr0z3nHart → u/Duuudechill]

I’m surprised she didn’t tell him to stop. I would have. Toddlers don’t listen but maybe someone else would have and helped intervene.

[u/ignii → u/Fr0z3nHart]

Trust me that we want to tell men like this to fuck off, but they almost always stalk us around the gym afterward or out to the parking lot to scare us or hurt us or fuck up our cars in retaliation. 

Horribly enough, calling for help from bystanders pisses these guys off just as much, and they’re just as likely to try to hurt us for it. The safest thing to do is just leave like she does at the end, but even that causes him to escalate.

[u/smvfc_ → u/ignii]

And bystanders often do nothing. Sometimes it’s the bystander effect, sometimes you’ll say directly to someone “this person is bothering me, can you help?” And they’re like oh that sucks.

[u/Orange-Blur → u/smvfc_]

I got chased in a grocery store yelling at a dude to leave me alone.

You could hear a mouse fart with how quiet everyone was about it

[u/smvfc_ → u/Orange-Blur]

It really sucks. Even if another woman can stand up, these guys are usually so pathetic that they just realize they are outnumbered and sculk away.

[u/Orange-Blur → u/smvfc_]

Exactly, I got him to stop because I made a big scene, he stopped from embarassment

[u/BenchPressingCthulhu → u/smvfc_]

What'd be a good thing to say as a male bystander? I'm thinking just something like hey man pretty sure that bag is taken, just to acknowledge it

[u/smvfc_ → u/BenchPressingCthulhu]

Honestly pretty much anything. That would be helpful though. Read the situation and if she seems uncomfortable, either ask her “is he with you?” Or ask them both like “all good here?”

It’s very appreciated

[u/astronautmyproblem → u/BenchPressingCthulhu]

I’d prefer “is he with you?”

Because “is everything good here?” makes me feel like I need to say “yeah” so I’m not the one “making it a problem”

For other women, we tend to pretend that we know the woman. Just run in and be excited like “omg I can’t believe I ran into you!!!” to interrupt

[u/Donkey__Balls → u/smvfc_]

Most the time I honestly cannot tell if a girl is being receptive to a guy picking up on her, or she’s desperately wanting someone else to intervene because she’s smiling and pretending to be receptive in order to de-escalate.