Saturday, June 19, 2004

harassed

so as i was in vegas i got harassed by some guy on a bike. we were walking in a spread out group, me somewat by myself in the middle, down a narrowish lane. see a guy riding his bike towards me. he starts riding over to my side of the lane. i kno wat's gonna happen. i prepare. he comes closer and says something in spanish. i hit him wit my stuffed animal as he rides by and i keep walking. and feel annoyed. not angry, mind you. i guess this is simply a part of being a woman? but wat kind of bs is that? where we educate our little girls to not take offense when someone harasses you? where all i do is harmlessly hit him wit a stuffed animal instead of pushing the asshole off his bike and beating the shit out of him so that he too knows wat it feels like to be humiliated? where no one later says anything (besides asking wat happened) because they think that i have shrugged the incident off because that is wat i'm supposed to do? where i passively wait around for the next time i am not so lucky to be simply harassed and am instead raped?

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