tweet by Zara Larsson @zaralarsson:
Isn’t it strange how every woman knows someone who’s been sexually harassed but no man seem to know any harasser?
tweet by Zara Larsson @zaralarsson:
Isn’t it strange how every woman knows someone who’s been sexually harassed but no man seem to know any harasser?
It’s a particular kind of weird as a trans person. You go from being largely ignored while out and about to getting looks of disgust to getting catcalled all within the span of a year in my case.
There’s a sort of, yay I pass from a distance kind of thing but then it settles in and it becomes yet another thing to try and tune out and hope words are the worst of it. Heaven forbid some guy hollers at you and then stops his truck up ahead cause you said nothing and didn’t look his way.
That must be such a strange and overwhelming mix of emotions. I can only imagine it’s like when we afab folks hit puberty and suddenly were seen as an object of desire and there’s all this unwanted attention that we’ve also been taught to take as a compliment, it’s so confusing.
It is. As someone who got a lot of those messages that were directed at AFAB folks and internalized them it was like putting a critical piece into a puzzle. It’s one thing to hear about it and have some insights. It’s another to be immersed in it so late in life comparably.