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    It was Saturday night, my friend’s birthday, and we had been bar-hopping. After the first three bars, I got a little tired and a little drunk and took the metro home from Dupont Circle to Columbia Heights alone, around midnight.
After I’d switched trains at Gallery Place, I leaned back and fell asleep, being […]

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 don’t think I qualify for this exactly, but I think the story should be told. A month ago I saw a perfectly respectable lady harassed by a man in his SUV. He was shouting at her, something about her red hair – which, by the way, was a red in the “normal” range of […]

    Yesterday morning, around 10:50am, I was walking to the bank from work. A man on his bike rides past me and yells, “SUCK MY DICK!” I was so confused and looked around and continued walking. The entire time I thought about what would happen if I had decided to kick him off of […]

My three roommates and I were coming back from a shopping trip, and got off at the Farragut West metro station. Two of my roommates ran across the street to a store while the other two of us stayed outside to watch our stuff. As we were standing there, a man approached us, and said […]