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lucyh
a car full of boys (five of them, white, about 20yo) on peckham road just ruined my day. as they drove past me (i was in the cycle lane), the passenger leaned out, whole upper body, and tried to touch my bum. as I've said before, this wasn't the first time this has happened to me. i was wearing a dress, thick tights and cycling shorts. i could see in my peripheral vision he kept his face towards me as if he deliberately wanted to make eye contact with me. he kept his hand out for ages after he'd passed me (he came within about ten cm) and his friends in the back laughed and turned around to have a look at me multiple times. after deciding that actually i wasn't going to just ignore it (i was on my way home from a really nice SEs and pizza and it fucking annoyed me so much) i gave the guys in the back the typical deathstare and middle finger and sped up to the passenger window. he hurriedly wound it up and i stopped him and said what the fuck he thought he was doing. he gave me some bullshit about "yeah, you got a real nice bike" checking out my legs the whole time so i told them to fuck off and took a different route home. i feel gross, creeps are shit.i also got "hot stuff" yesterday. it is not a compliment. i feel gross.
A quick "how would you feel about your daughter/mother/sister/girlfriend getting this level of harassment?"
And prepare to watch the gears turning in their tiny little heads. These kind of plebs tend to need to show their manliness and I'm not sure they could handle the cognitive dissonance. But you have to do it without showing any signs of upset or anger.Good luck!!
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a car full of boys (five of them, white, about 20yo) on peckham road just ruined my day. as they drove past me (i was in the cycle lane), the passenger leaned out, whole upper body, and tried to touch my bum. as I've said before, this wasn't the first time this has happened to me. i was wearing a dress, thick tights and cycling shorts. i could see in my peripheral vision he kept his face towards me as if he deliberately wanted to make eye contact with me. he kept his hand out for ages after he'd passed me (he came within about ten cm) and his friends in the back laughed and turned around to have a look at me multiple times. after deciding that actually i wasn't going to just ignore it (i was on my way home from a really nice SEs and pizza and it fucking annoyed me so much) i gave the guys in the back the typical deathstare and middle finger and sped up to the passenger window. he hurriedly wound it up and i stopped him and said what the fuck he thought he was doing. he gave me some bullshit about "yeah, you got a real nice bike" checking out my legs the whole time so i told them to fuck off and took a different route home. i feel gross, creeps are shit.
i also got "hot stuff" yesterday. it is not a compliment. i feel gross.