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Location: Federal Center SW Metro Station Time: Daytime (9:30am-3:30pm) As I was getting off of the escalator from the metro stop with my groceries, a man yelled “Damn, I would tear that ass up!” In a manner clearly directed at me. The level of violence and disrespect directed at women who are just trying to go about […]

Location: 14th & Harvard St NW (Columbia Heights) Time: Night (7:30pm-12am) I want to preface this entry by explaining two things: firstly, I am a straight male and have experienced street harassment…possibly one time in my entire life; secondly, I am not writing about one incident, but many experiences that I am privy to secondarily because I […]

Location: N Lynn Street & Route 29 (Arlington, VA) Time: Evening Rush Hour (3:30pm-7:30pm) As I walked onto the sidewalk, a man holding up a sign begging for money from cars at the stop light started yelling at me to lift up my skirt so he could “lick my pussy”. I turned around and started yelling at […]

Location: 17th & K NW (Farragut North) Time: Daytime (9:30am-3:30pm) This is what happened when I walked 1 BLOCK to grab some lunch: Exit Pret a Manger: Dude looks at me and says, “hey beautiful.” I awkwardly downcast eyes and give a weird, toothless, grimace-smile (working on not reacting this way, but I feel conditioned to respond when […]

Location: 14th & Irving St NW (Columbia Heights) Time: Night (7:30pm-12am) Sometimes I get asked why I seem to “hate men.” Let me clarify: I do not hate men as a gender, only the ones who cannot seem to grasp the fact that just because I have a pair of boobs does not mean I want to […]