"Occasionally frightening behavior from men? So what?" John Lennon must have been wrong: We are here to live in pain & fear.Most women who are young or halfway attractive will at some point experience rude and occasionally frightening behavior from men. So what? I’ve had some of the same kinds of unhappy experiences that Christine Sisto describes. Once, at the age of 18, while on a train in France, a derelict man — the only other passenger in the car — pleasured himself to the point of satisfaction while leering and grunting at me. Gross and scary. But you know what? I’m fine. I felt sorry for him. What a sad, lonely wreck of a man. He didn’t hurt me, though, except by giving me an unpleasant window into human nature.
Despite this disgusting experience (and a few others like it, including when I was much younger than 18), I’ll second the views of the lovely ladies of Fox News’s Outnumbered: Catcalls can be flattering, so long as they don’t cross the line into physical groping, intimidation, or assault.
In another context (You can imagine a few scenarios, can't you?) it would be "I was frightened, I had to shoot him. He might have had a gun, I didn't know but I was sooo scared ... Self-defense! Second Amendment!! Stand your ground!!!"
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