Seriously all of this says that this man is more threatening because he looks poor or homeless and is fat. What the hell?
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I avoid people on the street almost 100% unless they look in distress. I get nervous and panicky when someone asks me for directions because I am very bad at giving them.
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But what I don’t do is assume that someone’s appearance makes them automatically more threatening or “indecent” or “rude”.
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The last guys who were threatening to me were wearing suits, and were people I knew. The last person who shouted at me as I walked past was some 18 year old on campus.
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What determines their actions is how they feel entitled to (often) a woman’s attention, NOT that they look or dress a certain way.
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the absolute gaslighting nerve to publish that as the student voice of an institution that claims to be an "open and inclusive university and our commitment to equality and diversity "pic.twitter.com/U75BegA1nd
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The university doesn't run the paper, it's entirely student run.
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I hate it especially when otherwise good writing suddenly starts communicating how “bad” or “creepy” a person is with just straight vicious classism. In the article she could have just said that she didn’t feel comfortable greeting a strange man at night

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It's classist and fatphobic. And yes, she could have.
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