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Creepy things that males have said to you in any context.

349 replies

NoMoreDickheads · 28/05/2020 22:29

One I saw a couple of times a while back- he seemed a nice guy so IDK why he came out with this.

Me:- I don't like X (sexual act) it just makes me feel ticklish.

Him:- I'm going to make you laugh and laugh.

!!!
Luckily he didn't go on to try the thing. Brr!

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summerrose11 · 01/06/2020 07:27

Few more to add.
When I was 14 used to walk to my then boyfriends along a main road, always honked at and I hated it. Made me so self conscious.
When I was about 12 we had a trampoline. I'd go out and jump and notice my creepy old neighbour two doors away would be peering over the fence at the bottom of his garden! I'd tell my mum but she would say I'm over reacting and she's sure he wasn't staring. Every time we passed him in the streets he gave me the creeps and would stare however my mum always would be polite and speak.
In a club witg a guy I was kind of seeing years ago. He randomly then bites me on the arm. Me being drunk and young, just say ow why did you do that for. He was drunk and laughing. I had a huge bruise for weeks, could see his teeth marks. I was naive then but now I'm furious. Could of had him done for assault.
I'd say creepy and inappropriate comments started between 12. I'm now almost 30 and I'd say I get so much less now. Probably because people describe me as having a resting bitch face. I'm not smiley towards men anymore just because of how I've been treated/things said to me. I know NAMALT but still angers me so much that alot are.

Vinosaurus · 01/06/2020 07:27

Exactly the same happened to me as Electrictonight - had an annual review meeting with my bank, next day I had a call from the guy who I met with asking me out after he got my number off the system.

Mermaidwaves · 01/06/2020 07:54

I was 16 and sat on a busy train to London when a very posh older business man sat next to me. I was sat in the window seat and he moved next to me so close I was pinned and couldnt move. He then rubbed his leg and feet next to mine for a good 10 minutes but so subtlety that no one would notice. I remember freezing and not being sure if I was imagining it. He was reading a paper and looked so professional that you never would have guessed, I can still smell him now Angry

CoolCarrie · 01/06/2020 17:54

NoMore, yes I was lucky my boss was a man in his 30s who had two younger sisters , about my age then and he said that if anyone had said that to either of his sisters he hoped they would have done the same as me and they would have been right to do so.

deste · 01/06/2020 21:29

I was dancing with someone and I can’t remember why but he said “it’s not like I was going to rape you”. I walked off the floor in disgust. What goes through these peoples heads.

deste · 01/06/2020 21:35

Another one concerning my friend who works abroad. A young guy came up to her and said he was doing a course at university could he take a photo of her feet. She said yes and then he asked if he could kiss them and again she said yes. When she told me I couldn’t believe it. I said you know what he’ll be doing with the photo and the memory but she wouldn’t have it. She said “ no he was really genuine.” she is a really smart person ( usually), I still cringe for her.

wildcherries · 01/06/2020 21:51

How many of these are in the last 2-3 years...? Just feels like a thread of bashing men based on events from 2000s, 90s and 80s! The 90s are over 20yrs ago! But sadly, harassing women isn't. WTF?

A bus driver once blocked my path to the wheelchair ramp and put his hands down the inside of my chair, grabbing my hips.

"There has to be a perk to helping you." Absolute creep. They get off on the power.

NoMoreDickheads · 01/06/2020 22:12

@wildcherries Ugh! The hassle women with physical disabilities face must be horrible. It must be very frightening sometimes.

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One time (about 2006) I was in the back room of a charity shop looking at the furniture. A volunteer came through and it was just me and him in the room. He came up to me and touched the tattoo I have in the centre of my chest. I mentioned it to the staff/manager and they said a female volunteer had complained about him but they thought it was 'just her' or something like that, so hadn't done anything. rolls eyes.

I've heard that some men also have preconceptions about women with tattoos.

A couple of times (and this was last summer so no, not 30 years ago, not that that matters) in the corner shop a couple of staff members said

'Nice T-
attoo.' Looking at my chest.

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LikeDuhWhatever · 01/06/2020 22:23

Creeps galore...

hotsouple · 02/06/2020 00:01

I was found by a security officer on public transit having been roofied and taken to the hospital. I didn't know what had happened or who had taken me to the hospital until I received a facebook message later that day. The security guard who found me took my name off my ID and messaged me to ask for a date. I thanked him for finding me and pumped him for info about the prior night before politely declining him. It haunts me that I didn't report him although he messaged me a while later to say he had been fired and asked if I had reported him. I hadn't so I can only assume he bragged about me or something to a coworker who reported him. I blocked him after that. The whole thing bothers me.

NoMoreDickheads · 02/06/2020 00:04

Hotsoupie - that's awful. Sad Hugs xxx

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Bleepbloopblarp · 02/06/2020 00:11

One that springs to mind is a man I worked with saying “you just made me cream my trousers when you walked in in that skirt Bleep”

I was the 16yr old office junior and he was the 60-ish yr old office manager. When I think of some of the shit I had to deal with as a young woman it makes my blood boil.

Bailey93 · 02/06/2020 00:12

I was 13 walking home from town eating something when a builder/roofer I couldn't see said 'I've got something you can bite'

summerrose11 · 02/06/2020 07:19

Got another.
This happened a few years ago. I'd come back from maternity, a newly single mum too so I'd say I was quite vulnerable. This guy at work befriended me, had a wife and 1 kid and then another on the way. We discussed our children who were similar age. He would invite me to work get togethers. I liked someone else at work and told this guy how much I liked this other guy etc. So made it clear. One time this guy was making my drinks, I ended up extremely drunk. I went to go home and he some how ended up in my taxi, I can't really remember much but he ended up at my house. I woke up with him laying beside me on the sofa 🙄 I was fulled clothed and so was he so don't think he did anytging but it was so creepy. He became obsessed with me, I eventually filled a harassment complaint at work. He didn't get fired but got a harsh punishment. Apparently someone else before me had complained about him but it wasn't logged properly.

muckycat · 02/06/2020 08:16

Not the worst but the most annoying. Before a first online date: 'wear something sexy'. Ewww!! As though he got to dictate what I wear. I cancelled the date, told him why and blocked him. He was very apologetic but I think he thought he was being a bit s&m- y.

coronaornona · 03/06/2020 20:37

So so many of these happened to all of us.

I put up with perving, touching, suggestive comments for 11 driving lessons before I dared tell my mum. I was 17.
My EXH would have been prosecuted for marital rape had that been a thing then (90s) I went to bed earlier than him. He'd wake me up by entering me 🤬

I went to a Lily Allen gig at a uni when I was mid 30s with my then boyfriend. Everyone there were students apart from one creepy older guy. It was massively crowded and I spent the whole time with the creepy mans erection up against me. I kept giving him dirty looks but there was nowhere to move to. The twatty bf complained about swapping places with me!

Lolly34h · 03/06/2020 21:00

Art teacher. Your hair reminds me of lady Godiva he also made me cassette tapes of oasis as I was a massive fan of them. I was 14. He creeped me out massively after the lady Godiva comment. I ditched gcse art after that.

TodayIHaveGotThis · 03/06/2020 21:11

"You're fuckung gorgeous. I'd be careful if I were you..."

And

"You look so good I could rape you."

Said by the same man months apart. I wasnt dating him.

Ireallymustgotobed · 04/06/2020 20:43

Timeisnotaline

I’ve been breastfeeding for five years straight. Had lots of eye/contact lense checks in that time. My prescription and condition of my eyes hasn’t changed at all.

spagbolsandwich · 04/06/2020 22:30

When I was on a dating site years ago I got a message just saying ... 'I want to fuck your skull' ....

He was blocked!

Needtogetbackinthesack · 05/06/2020 11:23

I recently got a message from a guy on tinder asking why I'd been dumped. Said I was actually the dumper. He said well you'd never dump me, I'd get back with you and be just nice enough to emotionally and mentally destroy you, then dump you. Then went on to tell me how his ex had cheated, he'd got back with her, got her pregnant, emotionally and mentally destroyed her then left. They had 2 boys together, I hope the woman seeks help to stop those boys growing up like that.

milcmxxx · 05/06/2020 11:40

@felineflutter I’ve heard so many stories about creepy driving instructors!!! Mine told me I was the kind of girl he’d have gone out with when he was younger 🤢 he was my dads age!!

JustBeingMoi · 06/06/2020 11:52

Eugh these are grim. Some guyni work with had always given me the creeps. However this time he went waaaaay to far. I was not long back after maternity leave and he asked after the family. Then asked when we were going to have another one, I said I wasnt sure if we did, to which her said if he were my husband I wouldn't be able to stop him from trying..... I mean what the actual?

Ratonastick · 06/06/2020 12:21

Bit late to the party, but I remember going to a big outdoor family event to do with my Dads hobby as a 8-9 year old. There were hordes of kids there and lots of grown ups I’d known all my life so it was all very free and easy. Loads of fizzy pop, sausage rolls and sweets, running around like loons and playing with any passing adult. I remember a guy who was new to the club making weird creepy comments that I didn’t understand. My Auntie Sandra overheard and erupted in a fury that I had never seen. The place went silent as she went berserk at him then basically frogmarched him back to his car and told him to leave and never come back.

I was then petted and reassured by all and sundry, though I didn’t really understand the fuss, then thought no more of it. It’s only as I look back and realise what must have been said and the threat that he posed that I realise the power of the middle aged woman and her instinctive drive to protect a little one from a predator and I thank my lucky stars. When in doubt, be more Auntie Sandra

JeffJarrett · 06/06/2020 12:27

Was on the fence about meeting someone from online dating, didn't feel well so cancelled. He told me, "OK, but if you cancel again I'll have to smack you in the face"
Needless to say I blocked immediately.

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