A man just shouted at me in the street

[Dallia]

“Why are you wearing a curtain?”

I kind of smiled awkwardly and carried on crossing the road to him shouting “oi, you, I’m talking to you!”

I was absolutely mortified, lots of people were watching but no one said anything.

Why do people do this? He seemed like a “normal person” and it was really intimidating. He turned back to look and I thought he was going to start following me. Has anyone ever had weird random things shouted at them in the street, or is it just me

For the record I was wearing a stripy maxi dress as I was on my way to get a spray tan. Really wish I’d had a witty comeback.

What a knob! I bet he looked like total dog shite too didn’t he? They always do! pay no notice love.

It used to happen to me a lot when I was single and travelled alone on the train. Especially when I went to the buffet car. There would often be blokes there drinking beer and making lewd comments to me. I used to hate it, I only wanted a sandwich fgs!!

Ive had my boobs grabbed by a lad going past on a bike. And I was followed by a flasher whilst on honeymoon. It's everywhere.

A man once leaned out of a car window and shouted "go on fatty" at me while I was out running. I'm a size 12

Said man was bald and fat.

Men are twats.

Whilst out running a few weeks ago a bloke in a white van shouted 'come and suck my cock'. That upset me, I felt so vulnerable when he slowed down.

I've had run Forrest run, run fat girl shouted, car doors opened on me- I always tell DP when I get back, men in our lives should be aware of the daily drip of derogatory comments that we put up with.

I used to have short blonde hair and men would always make a point of asking me what I had 'done to myself'. What the fuck does that even mean!?

God, that reminds me of the time I took a taxi to the hairdressers. Just before I got out of the car he said 'don't get it cut too short; I don't like women with short hair'. Why thank you, Vidal Sassoon, I shall make sure I heed your much needed advice

Is it because they think it is banter? Or is it down testosterone or male entitlement? Or are they just twats?

It’s entitlement Vlad. Pure and simple. They spend time looking around at the women of the world, and decide whether they deem these women to be fuckable or not. And then they want to let us know the result of their decision because they mistakenly believe that we exist purely for their eyes to look at, and that we are waiting with bated breath to hear their verdict on our fuckability 😔

I’d be mortified if my brother, DH or DS behaved like this.

A group of men threw an egg at me once. Had forgotten that one!

Reading those trans threads - why do those men want to be women? Do they not realise? Much easier to be a man.

Last week was at crossing (with my ds in his buggy ) three blokes (obviously shared one brain cell ) shouted at me "oi you'd 100% be a milf if you got rid of u moustache "
I just shouted back ... "it'd be a waste of time getting rid for a boy like you" !!
I havent got a fucking moustache ! I havent even got my own shitting eyebrows !!( nerves /stress related) ! So erm WTAF !
With a baby in a buggy also ! Fuckwits !! Not that its right to shout at anybody but with a woman /moustached woman with a baby in buggy
So embarrassing isn't it !
And yup it is always men ... why ? I dont understand why or what they get out of shouting random thongs at people ! Knob jockeys !
Wankers !
Shoutie wankjobs!

And breathe x

3 blokes in a scaffolding van ... still fuming so typing superfast

If I get on a bus, I always get the 'nutter' talking to me in a very loud voice

It was cold last week. I was walking home with my fur lined coat hood up when I passed a man who looked at me weirdly and said 'eskimo' in quite an agressive manner I walked passed.

Not offensive but very strange.

Meandmy, they are arseholes, and I’m sorry to hear about your stress, but

I haven’t even got my own shitting eyebrows REALLY made me laugh, as did your exclamations at the end of your post! 😂

KERALA1 I too have had an egg thrown at me from some twats in a car. It hit my funny bone and hurt like hell. I strongly believe in karma though so they will have their comeuppance.

A man once said to me I had a fat fanny! I was mortified! Was walking along with my Mam minding my own still not sure what he meant t

I had a bloke shout ‘you’re a 5 love!’ our a van window. Prick.

We had a fairly unpleasant man living locally. The sort who would always loudly comment to any woman he saw, never mind the fact he was in his late-70s. I crossed the road one day for him to shout after me 'Why're you looking so bloody miserable?' I actually shut him up for once when I turned back and answered, 'Because my Dad died two hours ago and he was more of a man than you ever were or will be.'

Slightly spoiled it by bursting into fresh floods of tears, but they were for my Dad not because of anything the wanker had said.

It really makes me rage reading all of these.
I think I have been relatively lucky over the years- or have chosen to forget. I have always worn headphones when walking alone .

My tosser ex used to shout at women from his car when I was sitting next to him. It was either " eat more chips" or "eat less Chips" 😡

I have had two women shout fat cow as they were driving past.
When I was younger and walking with a male friend a man in a lorry shouted out to my friend “take her in a bush, fuck her and suck on her huge tits”
The last time I managed a comeback
Was in a bar and a man came up to me out his arm around me and said “if I saw you naked i would die happy”
I replied “really? If I saw you naked I would die laughing”
His mates fell about laughing and he sloped off muttering “must be a lesbian” under his breath

I’m raging too. And actually quite emotional reading these stories, and just want to give a hug to all the girls and women who’ve been hurt by twatty men shouting twatty things 😔

I was out with work colleagues for drinks. A random man came up and asked me if the “curtains matched the drapes” (I’m a redhead).

One of my colleagues punched him in the face... he wasn’t badly injured and scarpered out of the pub quickly.

Not that I’m advocating violence, but I bet he didn’t ask that question again...

@Catstar123 my standard response to that question is (whilst accompanied with a withering glance) " well what the duck do you expect? Purple feathers?"

And walk off. Works every time!

That was her punishment for not being attractive enough for them to fancy her i suppose. Some men feel very angry if they think you aren't making the required effort for them. How dare you not want them to fuck you.

^This, absolutely. I had years and years of it; being called ugly or weird looking by male strangers. Thankfully, when I turned 40, I seemed to become more or less invisible.

"What the fuck...". Obvs! Although duck feathers might also work!!