We were both going to the same train. I started walking faster because the doors were about to shut and she started speeding up as well and kept looking over her shoulders rapidly as I caught up. It didn’t help that my entire outfit was black

Didn’t mean to scare you

  • stinky [any]
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    2 years ago

    I’m imaging you with a smile on your face, running towards her, shouting of the Maoist revolution killing the landlords.

  • happybadger [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    I left the grocery behind this Prius. Then I turned left on the same street. Then I turned right onto the same, much smaller street. Then I turned into the same apartment complex. They went into a specific parking lot which just happened to be the one I was picking up my date from.

    It made me want to go up to them, apologise, and say "I don't even want to murder you. Shit happens."

    Edit: and reassure them that all the firewood in the back of my car isn't for cremating a body. It isn't.

      • happybadger [he/him]
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        2 years ago

        Look I'm sorry if I gave you the wrong impression but I haven't yet eaten a person.

          • happybadger [he/him]
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            2 years ago

            If you asked me if I've eaten a dead body, I would stare at you for a good minute thinking of the answer you want to hear and then say "nah, not really.". Because I haven't. The groceries and firewood in my car are for eating something else entirely.

  • machiabelly [she/her]
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    2 years ago

    As a trans woman, this was the worst kind of dysphoria I felt. Knowing that I was scaring women because of the appearance of my flesh prison was difficult to deal with.

        • GenderIsOpSec [she/her]
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          2 years ago

          some of the most gender validating shit i've felt is when other women dont feel intimidated by my presence, and how men try to steer farther away trying NOT to intimidate me by their presence :trans-ferret:

  • space_wizard [any]
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    2 years ago

    When I grew my hair out and softened my appearance a bit, the big surprise was the change in how strangers reacted to me. I've had some people comment that I should cut my hair and be more stereotypically masculine again but I couldn't go back. It's so deeply alienating to seem threatening to people when the situation isn't safe.

  • FourteenEyes [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    My "not a serial killer" T-shirt has people asking lots of questions already answered by my T-shirt

  • CliffordBigRedDog [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    It didn’t help that my entire outfit was black

    Lady, im not a ninja, im just dressed like one

  • KnilAdlez [none/use name]
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    2 years ago

    I've never been considered scary to anyone until COVID. But now with the mask, I'm a 6'7" silent faceless guy and it sucks. I really miss the times before COVID :sadness:

  • CptKrkIsClmbngThMntn [any]
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    2 years ago

    I had an awful moment coming down from hiking a desert mountain just as the sun was rising. I saw someone way below me steadily coming my way on the switchbacks, but at some point when we got close enough that I could tell they were femme-presenting, they must have caught a glimpse of my dishevelled hair and snotty nose wrapped in a baggy hoodie hood and turned tail. May have also been obvious that I was on a pile of acid and couldn't hold a normal resting facial expression, or didn't wave a friendly hello or something to ward off the weirdness.

  • RonJonGuaido [none/use name]
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    2 years ago

    what really happened to op https://www.theonion.com/man-a-little-insulted-by-how-unthreatened-woman-walking-1849520901

  • came_apart_at_Kmart [he/him, comrade/them]
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    2 years ago

    not saying you were doing what I'm about to describe, but walking 2 steps behind someone walking alone on an empty street is rude as shit. I'm 6' and built like a 1988 Ford Festiva, but literally yesterday two women were walking right up on my ass for like two blocks and then around a corner. I tried slowing down off to the side, but they matched pace and stayed up close, right behind me, laughing.

    it's nerve wracking on an empty street. size doesn't really matter if someone stabs you in the back or buffalos you in the back of the head or against 2 people with ill intent.

    I randomly cut across the empty street and they didn't follow, thankfully. not really sure what the next move would have been if they followed. probably a sprint followed by a myocardial infarction.

    • MaoistLandlord [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      It was 3 pm on an empty platform (because everyone was already in the train)