Yesterday, Monday, May 11, 2015, I was running errands in my neighborhood after a yoga class. As I was walking, I saw a boy of about 13 or 14 years old walking towards me. He was holding an ice cream cone. As he approached me, he licked his cone, and then leaned towards me and stuck his ice-cream covered tongue out at me in a lewd, sexual manner. I turned around as he passed me and told him that was disgusting. He laughed at me and said, ʺI know, that’s why I did it.ʺ
This incident made me feel humiliated, powerless and also completely enraged. I have a right to walk in my neighborhood and my city without my dignity being infringed upon and made a mockery of by others.
Optional: What’s one way you think we can make public places safer for everyone?
Encourage men to speak out against, and confront street harassment when they see their peers committing these violations.
– LCS
Location: Upper West Side, NYC, NY
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