Two guys dressed casually in their 30s are walking toward me on the side walk. I’m a regular 24 year old girl walking around during lunch break at my 9-5 office job. They start yelling, “hey baby, why you lookin’ so good” and “DAMN!”. Annoyed, I roll my eyes as they pass by – that […]
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, […]
This happened earlier in the year but it got my blood boiling- I was walking to the Metro from my house in the late morning when a white van full of blue-collar type guys slowed down. The ring-leader yelled: “I like the way your pants cling to your butt!” while the other 4 or so […]
Incident cross posted from urban bohemian: When I posted last week’s observed encounter worthy of Holla Back DC! I didn’t think I’d have my own moment not too long after! After getting in from work Monday evening, I decided to take the Circulator over to Barracks Row to fill up the booze stocks in the […]
The other week I was walking to my boyfriend’s house when guy in van who was stopped at a stop light said, “hey. where you going?” He then preceded to yell a phone number at me. What did he expect? There is no way he could honestly think I am going to stop walking, write […]