| Comment | To be fair, I attract attention to some degree. If I'm riding my motorbike that day, I'm fully kitted up and that usually invites drunken groups to make a comment. Usually only gives me anxiety about parking my bike though that a drunk person might try and sit on it which has happened once so far by a drunk woman whose male friends got *very protective* when I yelled across the street to get off it.
Other times it's just me not thinking about what I'm wearing and accidentally pairing black north face trousers with a slayer shirt and then looking like a goth.
In an ideal world none of this should matter, but in reality if you stick out, you'll get encounters. Some positive, some annoying and maybe 1 in a 100 just leaves you scratching your head wondering what's wrong with people.
I don't know if PUA are still a thing, but I don't think I ever noticed the behaviour to the degree I see these days and I don't know if that's me just being more aware of it. I would like to think it's the same people every week rather than an actual epidemic, but I don't go to clubs or such. When I do go out I generally go out in the day and wrap things up around 10pm when places start to get busy but even that's enough to observe it. |
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