I am a straight man and a group of young men in a truck pulled up next to me while I was biking home from work and commented on my ass, saying, ‘Nice Ass.”
I ignored them at first but they kept shouting so i gave them the finger. They drove off. But I felt uneasy, like they would maybe loop around and cause trouble. It made an otherwise enjoyable bike ride into one where I felt unsafe fearing aggressive retaliation.
Do you have any suggestions for dealing with harassers and/or ending street harassment in general?
Don’t accept it. As a biker following all the rules of the road, I often get various forms of harassment but rarely sexualized. I always confront them tell them they are ignorant if they stick around.
– NP
Location: Snowy Range Road, Laramie, WY
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