This has happened twice this week. Mere yards from my home, while I was walking down the sidewalk, people in their cars (all of them men) have wolf-whistled or catcalled at me, yelling rude things. In some cases, I wasn’t even 50 feet from the edge of my property. I feel unsafe in my own neighborhood every time it happens; like I can’t leave my apartment to go walk to the store without being bothered. It’s violating, it’s rude, and it leaves me angry and on the verge of tears. I deserve far more respect than this.
Optional: What’s one way you think we can make public places safer for everyone?
I’m not sure at this point, other than finding a way to make these scumbags picture that their mother/father/priest/etc. is there watching them do it.
– SS
Location: Westminster, CO, USA
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