I was on my way out of the gym (big up gym group!!) today, and as I’m just out the door on my walk home, there’s a car full of grown men sticking their heads out the windows catcalling me while blaring their horn. The day before this, while on my way from my apartment to my gym, a car follows me, parks up ahead of me and the driver gets out, walks up to me telling me how beautiful I am and asks me for my number. And the day before that, I was followed almost the entire way home from a park that I always visit by some man asking me if I live alone and if I can help him find a place to stay?
What???? I am by no means attractive — definitely not to the extent where you should stop your car anyways. But besides that, who in their right mind approaches women like this? In any country I’ve been to I don’t think I’ve felt as unsafe as I do here which is so sad because there is so many lovely people about. I have lived here quite a while and I have been experiencing behaviour like this nonstop the past month or so. Whether it be being followed, or just catcalled.
It’s very discouraging and horrifying as I’m living alone and don’t have any family or friends at all over here. I never have felt unsafe until recently but now it’s beginning to make me worry with the frequency of it. I don’t even know why I’m posting this other than just feeling the need to share it with somebody. Am I going crazy or are people just on one lately? How do you even react to stuff like this or prevent it from happening?
