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This morning I was walking to my car, which was parked a few blocks from my apartment, to get to boot camp (exercise, not military). As I passed the BP gas station just north of N St on 13th, a guy at one of the pumps started making fairly explicit remarks about my body. I’m […]

I was biking down Mount Pleasant street on my way to work around 8:45 in the morning. As I approach the 7-11, there is a middle-aged man looking up the street at me. Right as I pass by, I get this gem of a line shouted at me, in a pretty aggressive tone: “I’m going […]

After driving home from work this evening, I parked my car and started walking toward my building, which about 75 – 100 yards away. A man approached me and started making sexual references about various body parts (i.e. breasts, butt, and “p—y”) and “what [he] would love to do with [me]”, as I approached my […]

I was out and around the city doing errands for my boss and had two experiences that seemed to totally cancel each other out. The first occurred on the Chinatown metro. I was getting off the red line to transfer to the green line when I feel a tap on my shoulder. I turn around […]

I cut my hair short this summer and was too “masculine-looking” (society’s view, not mine) to be harassed by men on the street, but now my hair’s grown out to an “acceptable feminine length” (see previous thought) making me noticeable for “compliments” from men on the street again. As I left work yesterday and walked […]