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Cross posted from Stop Street Harassment: This morning as I was getting on the Metro bus (in DC) to ride to work, the bus driver was standing outside taking a quick break. As I approached the bus and showed him my pass, he said to me, “I’m going to disrespect you today.” I stopped short, […]

  Last night I was waiting for my bus when some guy told me “Hey baby, can I be your umbrella?” I was too dumbfounded to give any type of response except to completely ignore him. I wish I had a quicker reaction and smacked him with my actual umbrella. What bothered me about this […]

Waiting for the bus. A gaptoothed older man looks me over, smirking; I keep reading the paper. “You married?” he asks. “No.” “You have children?” “No.” He nods, and then— “You’d have bigger breasts if you had children.” The 22A comes and he gets on it. “Eeeeey,” he says, moving to shake my hand before […]

  I go to work very early in the morning, around 5 AM. I was waiting on the 23A when a car pulled over at the curb. This wasn’t really a surprise; the bars nearby often get deliveries or newspapers are changed at that hour. But this time a thirtyish man in jeans and a […]

I encounter street harassment far too often, but for some reason, the incidents that occurred to me on the past two Sundays are sticking in my mind. Two Sundays ago, I was on the X2 bus around 10:45 am and a middle-aged man started talking to me and would not leave me alone. He asked […]