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In reply to the discussion: These are the things men say to women on the street [View all]pipi_k
(21,020 posts)say on the street?
I can honestly say I've been disrespected by nearly as many WOMEN as I have men.
Women who have called me a "slut", "pig", "whore", etc., all because their men have dared to look at me. Or because they thought I wanted to "steal" their boyfriends/husbands away from them.
And people go on about how men won't say anything derogatory to a woman when she's with another man. What about women who flirt with a man even though he's clearly WITH a girlfriend or wife??? Is that not disrespectful?
And tell me...is it sexual harassment for a woman to proposition another woman? It's happened to me a handful of times. "Oh, if I were gay, I could really go for you". That was said to me one time in a bar while I was there with my second husband and brother in law.
Then there was a time, many years ago when I was slimmer than today. I had gotten my hair cut short (had to, because it got ruined when I dyed it dark then bleached it back light again). Walking my dog down a busy street, a bunch of girls driving by from my back yelling "Hey baby!!!" at me, then realizing their mistake as they got past and noticed I actually had breasts, small as they were at the time.
So, while I've also had some disrespectful things said to me by men, why are we pretending that women are totally innocent of the same type of behavior?