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Good looking guy and disgusting words

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Last week when I was walking my dog I got street harassed by 2 guys in their early 20’s.  They looked me up and down and up and down as they passed me but they didn’t start saying anything until we had already passed each other.

Then the one guy said, “I could lick your Ass all night long, that Ass is so fine.”

I didn’t know what to do because they had already passed and so I tried to ignore it.  Then because I didn’t say anything he screamed out, “Did you hear me?”

Then he screamed, “I could just Fuck your ASS all night long.”

He was screaming things to me all the way down the street until I couldn’t make out what he was saying, but he was still saying stuff.  He looked like a normal, good-looking nice guy, but he was so disgusting with his words.  It really did shake me up.

I came home and called my boyfriend.  I told him what happened and he said to just keep my mace in my hands if it happens again.  He thought I did everything right by not saying anything since they had already passed.  I was so angry, I felt so degraded and humiliated!  I am so much older than they are and it is so disrespectful to speak to me that way!  It is total daylight on a Sunday and I am walking my dog, right by a Fire Station.  I know I can always run over to the Firefighters though and that is why I walk my dog where I do.

– TWS

Location: Sunset Blvd, Pacific Palisades, CA

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Harassers don’t care if you’re sad because you just broke up with your boyfriend

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Yesterday I had to ride the bus home after dropping my Jeep off at a car repair place in Santa Monica. I was with my son walking back home on Sunset Blvd when a truck drove by screaming and yelling yeeeeeeaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhh Baby… It was disgusting not only because my 17 year old son was walking right in front of me, but I had just broken up with my boyfriend of 2 years and I was feeling so horrible at that moment.

I didn’t feel sexy, I didn’t want to be cat called at. It made me very upset because it doesn’t seem to matter what your day may be like men feel that they have the right to scream at you and upset you even more than you were already feeling! I don’t usually take the bus, but my son commented to me after the guys were screaming that, Mom, this sort of thing would happen to you all the time if you took the bus.

I believe that to be true and I feel so sorry for all the women who have to go through this! It is not right! We have the right to walk the streets without being harassed in this manner!

– Tanya Salcedo

Location: Sunset Blvd., Pacific Palisades, CA

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