Annoyed by random man incidents

@AmaryllisChorus absolutely. I make sure to model this to my early teen. We may move off-centre of the path if there are people coming towards us but I am not stepping into mud/into the road for a bunch of teenage boys who want to walk five abreast.
Possibly being frumpy, over fifty and having a resting bitch face help.

I have been known to say: you can't actually walk through me. I'm not a ghost.

I haven't played patriarchy chicken for ages. The toughest call is a line of teen boys coming at you. They cannot believe you won't step into the road so their posse don't break. The confusion on their faces as their little synapses compute that some women claim the right to occupy as much space as them is sweet, really. Their brains are still forming, so it's a good time to learn.

When I was nineteen I was waiting on a bench at the train station. All the other benches were empty. A man in his thirties sat down on the same bench and actually turned his body to faced me. I was going to ignore him but then he lit his cigarette so I abruptly got up and went to the bench the farthest away. He looked very surprised at first but then he looked at his cigarette. I bet the idiot thought the cigarette was the only reason why I left

Yes another reason why pronouns in email footers are bad news for women.

Havent read the thread have you

No nearly as much as men are

So what, even though I get there first and it's my "priority" and I'm already on the road and they pull out in front I should, what, reverse to let them go first because they are male? Listen to yourself.

Probably not in the same vein as other comments, but at the cinema the man behind us (we were right at the aisle end) put his feet far in front of him so they were almost touching my daughters seat. She was weirded out and asked me to swap chairs so when I noticed said man's trainers right next to her arm I looked back at the man, swapped chairs with her then plonked myself down hard and put my elbow straight on the armrest which also made contact with his foot ( it was that close) and he promptly moved his feet out of my personal space. Why it was ok to put his feet in my daughters personal space really annoyed me

I'll ask my 6ft 4 son if he often trips over his little brother (I've never noticed him doing it)

I remember being Sat on a practically empty Metro train when I was in my mid 20's, a random man got on and sat next to me in a bank of 4 seats.

I IMMEDIATELY got up and moved to the other end of the carriage, he looked so offended, like why would I not want to be seated next to some random bloke on a nearly empty train!

Arsehole.

It seemed to be a regular thing when we were kids. I remember during school assemblies being warned girls had been flashed walking to or from school. It wasn’t just once, it happened a lot

Sorry to tell you it’s not your “right of way”. It’s your “priority” and if the other driver doesn’t allow you that priority they can just keep going, it’s rude but no law against it.

Also the etiquette when driving is, if the car is on your side and you get there first you wait. The same as 2 people reaching a door at the same time. The one who gets their first usually politely opens for the other, they don’t just barge through because they got there first.

I read all of these while waiting for my son's sport to finish. While leaving the car park a man drove in front of me, gesturing rudely that I was taking too long (son was looking for water bottle and climbing round car so I was distracted).

I was so worked up I wound down window about to give him a mouthful when my son said, "please don't mum, that's my teammate in the car!"

I did stop myself for my son's sake. But what an Busy and Important dick (and son decided to climb around car to find water bottle after I'd started driving, so there wasn't much I could do except drive slowly)

I pulled up alongside a moron drive in his 20s tooting and racing after the car infront of him
As I pulled alongside I told him he should learn to drive.
Moron turned into my lane as I did a left turn and tooted tailgater me.
I was supposed to be threatened.
I wonder how long before he is sorted out legally or illegally.
Selfish, impatient attitudes.
Another was a man walking down the footpath while I was at traffic lights.
He picked up a e scooter and threw it into the shrubs.
It was hilarious...they park them in the way in my city or playgrounds, middle of footpaths.

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I had a recent road rage incident with the man who was driving the ACCESS bus in town.
So he had dropped his vulnerable and elderly passengers at our local shopping centre and I thought he was parked up. But no it turned out he was trying to reverse and there were some roadworks so half the road was blocked and other cars were struggling to park round the corner - which for some reason being that it was round a corner I couldn't see.
So when I got near the bus he randomly started shouting and doing 'wanker' signs at me! Which I found a bit dim me being a woman! Husband and young grand children in the car too.
Husband shot out of the car and asked him his name the driver continued effing and jeffing thinking the bloke would understand why he had to shout and gesticulate at his wife
I was bloody enraged and rang Dave's company and explained what their driver of vulnerable adults had been doing. The man on the other end of the phone said ok ok calm down love.
I said isn't that what you should be saying to your vile driver who has instigated a road rage incident.
No fucks given basically until my husband spoke as we were in the car and apologies started coming.
The best part was when we left town a few minutes later the bus was parked up with delightful Dave sat on his phone - so him already being blocked in and me making his agony last seconds longer was all because he was missing out on his phone time obviously.

This thing about tall people tripping over small people and children…I’m 5’3” and surrounded by tall people. My husband is 6’2”, same as his brother, our son in law and his brother are both 6’3”.
One of our daughter’s is 6’, late MIL was 6’. None of them barge into people or trip over small kids. I’ve never noticed a trail people left behind, scattered like felled trees on footpaths when we’ve been out. The opposite in fact, DH notices obstacles ahead better than me, when out walking due to the height difference.

Please say he's an ex husband?

I aggree with @PleasePleaseTellMeNow , he sounds sinister & V unpleasant @VampireWeekday

I hope he's an ex husband or he's had a complete personality transplant?

Yes but people doing those things aren't being deliberately aggressive and obnoxious. These men know what they're doing. It's deliberate.

I had an incident recently which left me feeling slightly shaken (and I'm not easily shaken). Someone came by our house selling stuff and wanting us to sign up for a particular subscription service. It was 7pm so I was bathing my 1 year old with the older one about to jump in the bath. I'd agreed to take an important package for neighbours that day, so I removed the baby, grabbed a towel and hurried to the door, wrapping them on the way, in case it was the package. It was a cold night so baby wasn't very happy about being removed from the bath and in the freezing doorway. When I realised what this man wanted, I said politely "I'm sorry, this is not a good time, we were in the middle of bath time so I can't chat unfortunately." I received an earful of swearing and vitriol in return, about how I 'couldn't be fuckin' bothered to hear him out' and similar. All in earshot of my kids. It's the first time anything of that sort has ever happened to me at our house and I found it quite scary. I don't think a woman would ever feel entitled to behave in that way.

Did you not notice it was masculinely re-named Attention Dominance? As in, they are paying more attention and it just happens to be dominant to women? Not their fault at all merely that they are naturally blessed with higher levels of focus, clearly

Sometimes it's entitlement and sometimes it's a deliberate display of dominance. My husband used to regularly plough into me in our home, and act like I was insane for being outraged. His excuse was "you're always in the way" or "you should see me coming and move". To be clear he wouldn't ask or say excuse me, he'd just walk into me. I fucking hated it, it felt like being assaulted. It hurts, but more importantly, it's degrading because it reveals that they think you're so beneath them that you need to scuttle out of their way or deserve to be injured. He's also grab my rucksack handle when it was on my back if I was going the wrong way.

I've had men tread on my feet on purpose, jostle me in queues and on trains, square up to me when at work. I've just never had a woman thinking it's acceptable to put her hands on my like that.

A man once overtook and pulled up in front of dh's car on a narrow road where dh couldn't overtake, after he had inadvertently done some minor thing that annoyed the other driver. The bloke got out of his car and started approaching dh's. Dh was actually driving a very small car at the time, and we're certain the other guy made the sexist assumption that a woman must have been driving. Anyway, as he approached the car, dh got out of his car too. Road-rage guy was obviously not expecting to see my 6 foot six, rugby-player husband. He took one look, turned on his heel, and scarpered back to his own car.