Fuckwits on a train
Sep. 26th, 2009 10:06 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
slemslempikeOn the train back I went to the shop. This was to buy water to soothe my SORE THROAT IT HURTS, spurred on by the shop manager's announcement, which I think was trying to be funny and make slightly out-dated pop culture references, but came across more as being held hostage by the onboard computer and trying not to let her fear show lest others be made to suffer.
My way there was blocked by two men who were sitting across the aisle from each other chatting. One moved his legs very politely, and the other "grinned" up at me and said I could only get past if I said "excuse me, please". When I pointed out that I already had, he grudgingly moved.
On the way back to my seat, the same man got up and blocked my path, moving backwards between the seats in front of me leering at me. When he eventually stood to the side to let me past he muttered "you're a little tease" as I went past. I informed him that he was a fucking dickhead, and went through to my carriage.
UGH. I don't actually encounter very much sexist harrassment in my day to day life, and it's still really unsettling when it happens. I found myself pulling my vest top up higher on my breasts when he came through my carriage, because of course there must be some reason why he called me a tease, and if he'd gotten angry when I'd called him a dickhead then that would have been my fault too because you shouldn't provoke men if they're arseholes to you, just placate them. Stupid horrible man.
My way there was blocked by two men who were sitting across the aisle from each other chatting. One moved his legs very politely, and the other "grinned" up at me and said I could only get past if I said "excuse me, please". When I pointed out that I already had, he grudgingly moved.
On the way back to my seat, the same man got up and blocked my path, moving backwards between the seats in front of me leering at me. When he eventually stood to the side to let me past he muttered "you're a little tease" as I went past. I informed him that he was a fucking dickhead, and went through to my carriage.
UGH. I don't actually encounter very much sexist harrassment in my day to day life, and it's still really unsettling when it happens. I found myself pulling my vest top up higher on my breasts when he came through my carriage, because of course there must be some reason why he called me a tease, and if he'd gotten angry when I'd called him a dickhead then that would have been my fault too because you shouldn't provoke men if they're arseholes to you, just placate them. Stupid horrible man.
