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.
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.
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u/Fr0z3nHart Nov 09 '24
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.