gregory rush
Jul 21, 2017 · 1 min read

I think you would enjoy hearing about this practice that a woman I once knew from New York resorted to for a short time:

She too was incensed about your topic, but also about the opaque double standard often at work, of the men apparently dismissing any visual cues that they might have been unknowingly delivering.

So, finally, in desperation, she printed up some 4x4 handouts, with a collection of phrases on them describing negative traits an offending man was seeming to project, while he was rejecting her.

Instead of once more engaging in her least favorite line of response at times when she merely wished to “escape”, she would take out a form and check the boxes to the right of the most pertinent offenses: (approximately) like so:

(Caption): “I suspect you’re just an @hole at heart, because…”:

  • “You can’t get that leer off your face for a minute.”
  • “You don’t yet know the color of my eyes.”
  • “‘No’ is not an answer to you.”
  • “My perfume is no match for yours.”
  • “I haven’t heard ‘woman’ all night.”
  • “I’ve been a waitress, like the one at dinner.”
  • “I’ve seen your apartment; I really need mine.”

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    Been there done that over the river through the woods up the creek and under the weather ‘round the bend & back again now here doing this.