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I was walking to a bookstore on a Friday night when someone in a passing car offered me a ride. He looked college-age, like a wannabe but failed frat boy, hanging out the back window of a gray sedan. I regarded him for a moment before ignoring him. “Come on, we’ve got room,” he coaxed, […]

I was walking down M Street yesterday evening, and one of the men who begs for change and harasses (the one who wears a hat that looks like a Pepperidge Farm Goldfish) felt the need to refer to me and other women walking by as “pretty ladies,” like we were there for his viewing pleasure. […]

I was walking back to work from my lunch break the other day, and this guy who was begging for change in front of United Colors of Benetton was yelling at a guy who was with a woman. The guy was yelling mess like “Ooh! That’s what I’m talking about! Protect that prettiness! You got […]

From TBD.com: D.C. police are on the hunt for a man who sexually assaulted a woman inside her home, about one block from Georgetown University Hospital. At approximately 7:30 a.m. Sunday a man forced his way into the residence in the 3800 block of S Street NW, in the Burleith neighborhood just north of Reservoir […]

I was walking home and a man said to me, “Do you have some change? (pause)  I’ll suck on your titty.” It was the only time I’ve every flipped off a stranger. He also had a friend with him who laughed and laughed and that felt just as insulting. Submitted by AP on 8/18/10 Location: […]