I’m 23 years old. Men old enough to be my father hit on me all the time.
At work a couple months ago, a man in his 50s came up to me and started telling me about how he saw me a few days ago and grossly explaining how fine he thought I was. He didn’t want to fuck off when I told him he was being inappropriate, he instead asked for my number. On another occasion at work, another man around the same age asked me if I need a sugar daddy. When I am at work, I am not acting like I’m in my 50s, I am minding my own business and doing my job.
Just yesterday while I was out jogging, a man in his 30s leaned out of his truck window to yell at me. When I am out jogging or walking, I am not acting like I’m in my 30s, or trying to attract the attention of men in their 30s, I am exercising.
When I was 19, a man in his 40s followed me across a shopping center while I bought art supplies for school between classes. He followed me, caught up to me, and asked me my age, and even upon hearing that I was decades younger than him, and a TEENAGER, he persisted and kept trying to give me his number to make plans with him. I wasn’t acting like I was 40, I was shopping for school supplies.
When I was 16, I was at the laundromat Waiting for my clothes to finish, and a man in his mid 20s/30s came up to me, into my personal space, and started hitting on me. When I told him I was only 16, he just asked me “so when do you turn 18?” And getting frustrated at my obvious discomfort. I was doing laundry, not vying for a grown man’s attention.
One thing all these older men have in common when they start bothering me, is that they start off with “you look kinda young, but…”. We as a society need to stop shifting the blame onto young women and girls. Very many men are predatory and purposely go for girls that are much younger than them for sick reasons. It has nothing to do with “acting your age”. If a 20-something y/o is going after girls in their mid teens, he is a creep and a predator. There’s no way around that. Creepy men need to be held accountable for their fucked up behavior.
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