How to talk to a woman wearing headphones

[Vilanelle]

I have just come across this post on Twitter and was so pissed off by it and shocked, that I had to google and find the original article online to confirm it's not a wind up.

The part that particularly got my back up was point 4;

"When she looks at you, smile and point to her headphones and say, 'Take off your headphones for a minute' and pretend to be taking headphones off your head, so she fully understands.

If she doesn’t understand (most women will), simply gesture that you want to talk to her by briefly pointing back and forth from you to her and say, “I want to talk to you for a minute"

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AIBU to want to throttle the writer?

The bit where it says wave directly in her vision so she can’t ignore you would definitely get me saying yes to a date. Smooth.

Alright! Whoever the 3% is explain how there is ANY reason that a woman should capitulate to a man demanding (no matter how smarmy he is) that she removes her earphones. Go on explain how wrong women are for being so fucked off about this.

Woman: [Most likely laughing and saying] No, I was listening to [most likely latest pop music]

Right, because a mere woman would never be wearing headphones because she's on a call to someone. Possibly even an important one.

No, she's obviously just listening to pop music.

S1naidSucks maybe the 3% think throttling would leave DNA evidence and have another method in mind

JudgyPantsAndAMartyrBra - reading yours/your DDs experiences has pissed me right off - the sheer entitlement and the misogynistic excuse making. 'Friendly' my arse - its funny how these 'friendly' men don't want to be 'friendly' with anyone who isn't a female teenager/young woman.

FlaviaAlbia 🤣

These ‘men’ will learn after a few swift boot to the nuts from headphone wearing women.

Oh god I didn't even notice the "little headphones" FFS

The best bit is that you really usually can hear someone talking to you over your headphones, unless your music is blasting so loudly that they're actually trying to ask you to turn it down.

It's so unlikely that a woman would listen to heavy metal music that to suggest it counts as 'light humour'. FFS.

I wear headphones at the gym to stop creeps trying to talk to me lol. Sometimes they aren’t even on (Bluetooth and out of charge). I’ve had too many disgusting comments to want to hear anything any one of them want to say. I’d point back and forward and then shake my head as if to say “You and Me? Nope.”

A youngish male acquaintance of mine commutes by train and he recently asked me about how to approach a girl he fancied on his train who wears headphones every day. I told him not to. He asked if he should ask her to take them off, and I said no. He asked if he should give her a note asking her out and I said no. It took quite a while for me to convince him that if she wears headphones on her daily commute and never makes eye contact and doesn't always sit in his carriage that she does not want to be approached. I don't understand why some men have such a high sense of entitlement about things like this.