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He follows these women after they try to walk away from him. Getting some random guy coming up to me giving me the kind of chat this guy is coming out with can be really quite threatening, especially if it's later on in the evening, I'm by myself, and it's quiet. But it's even worse when they've decided they definitely want to talk to you because then walking away doesn't really work. If he took the first sign of rejection as a cue to go away, he'd still be a shitehawk for doing this shit, but he sees rejection as something to be overcome, not a sign he should stop. We don't get to just walk away from guys like this. Plus, there's no shortage of situations where a woman has tried to walk away from a man and got hurt for it. My personal experience being on my way down Buchanan Street after work to meet some people in the pub, a clearly very drunk guy came up to me and started giving it the "aw where you goin hen, got a boyfriend" among other sexually explicit stuff. I walked away from him, and after shouting more explicit stuff, he shouted "HAW DONT IGNORE ME" and ran up and yanked me backwards by the hair. Luckily there were other people around who saw and dragged him away from me. Most guys aren't gonna do that, obviously, but clearly at the very least one that I have personally met was and he won't be alone given how many women I know with these kinds of stories. This is why the "just laugh at him, call him an arsehole and walk away" sort of advice doesn't really work in practice, because we don't know how this random man is going to react to being told no. So we try to politely remove ourselves instead.