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It hurts my feelings when people cross the street when they see me.
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Obviously it's not the case in all situations, but you have to look at it from her perspective too. It's possible she had been attacked/mugged etc before. It's possible she does that to every man when she is walking alone. Women can often feel threatened when alone walking these days with all the media coverage on attacks, rapes, robberies and it has absolutely nothing to do with race. It's a male/female thing.
It's more than likely she was just taking precautions that she takes with everyone when she is in that situation.
It sucks, but don't jump to the conclusion that it only happened because of your skin colour. It's more than likely it was because you're a young male, and she was a young female by herself. That alone can worry a lot of women these days unfortunately. It's justified too, which is even worse.
Imagine if you had screamed "coward!" to some random young woman walking in the street by herself, who had crossed the road like she does to every male because of some horrible previous experience? That'll surely make her feel safer and won't do anything to further aggravate any media stereotype.
.....personally, I think anyone would be a bit freaked by some black dude walking toward them dressed in nice khaki shorts, black polo top, nice haircut with a gimp mask on, bare footed and screaming "cowards!" at random strangers while trying to sniff their feet, but that's just me.
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you're harmless and mean well, but you're certainly an oddball, TS.
maybe these chickenheads have a finely calibrated radar for the weird ones.
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Originally posted by Sociopath View PostWhen you're crawling on the sidewalk sniffing feet, most would find that a little creepy.
I wonder if that was Trigger.
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Originally posted by BennyST View PostObviously it's not the case in all situations, but you have to look at it from her perspective too. It's possible she had been attacked/mugged etc before. It's possible she does that to every man when she is walking alone. Women can often feel threatened when alone walking these days with all the media coverage on attacks, rapes, robberies and it has absolutely nothing to do with race. It's a male/female thing.
It's more than likely she was just taking precautions that she takes with everyone when she is in that situation.
It sucks, but don't jump to the conclusion that it only happened because of your skin colour. It's more than likely it was because you're a young male, and she was a young female by herself. That alone can worry a lot of women these days unfortunately. It's justified too, which is even worse.
Imagine if you had screamed "coward!" to some random young woman walking in the street by herself, who had crossed the road like she does to every male because of some horrible previous experience? That'll surely make her feel safer and won't do anything to further aggravate any media stereotype.
.....personally, I think anyone would be a bit freaked by some black dude walking toward them dressed in nice khaki shorts, black polo top, nice haircut with a gimp mask on, bare footed and screaming "cowards!" at random strangers while trying to sniff their feet, but that's just me.
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