Sitting in a pretty empty stopped subway car with the doors still open, a man is walking by staring and I try to avoid him. He isn’t even getting on the subway but this doesn’t stop him from standing on the platform yelling into the car at me “Ma’am you’re beautiful!” I feel uncomfortable and don’t want to encourage him so I don’t respond, yet he still goes on: “Ma’am, you’re beautiful! You could at least say thank you!”
I still avoid him, and that is still not enough for him to just drop it, he goes on one more time and now he is annoyed that I am not appreciative of his obnoxious shouts, and he says, “Ma’am, YOU’RE UGLY”.
I couldn’t care less about whether a stranger thinks I am beautiful or ugly, its just the fact that he tries to ‘punish’ me or make me feel bad about myself because I don’t appreciate being hollered at is what gets to me.
– Anonymous
