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alpacaparties replied to your post: so, an interesting thought/query i keep having: if...

In my experience, it’s a combination of factors that catches the attention of creeps. Even as a conventionally attractive and thin young woman, I’ve never gotten catcalled when I’m wearing clothes that fully cover me and aren’t tight. It’s things like revealing clothes, visible effort in hairstyling or makeup, and a desirable body, that catches their attention and they somehow think it’s for them.

i will say i have seen women catcalled in baggy jumpers and jeans, often enough, but i know creeps do it to feel powerful more than they do it to ‘compliment’ or flatter someone so it does tend towards women who they see are well dressed and have some kind of agency or already appear strong/confident

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alpacaparties replied to your post: ceeturnalia replied to your post “hey can anybody...

What if you use a VPN?

so, my dude, you are a GENIUS! i connected with my vpn to a USA-based IP address and voila, it freaking works. so it’s something to do with being in Australia? possibly? idk but THANK YOU for this temporary fix!

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alpacaparties replied to your post “ceeturnalia replied to your post “alpacaparties replied to your...”

I never meant to imply that dressing badly can somehow 'protect' you against harassment, because of course women get assaulted all the time regardless of what they look like or what they’re doing. But as the question was specifically about getting attention on the street, there is a difference between being overweight vs skinny or makeup vs no makeup when it comes to the amount of harassment you get.

To claim that the way you look has no effect at all on how people react to you on the street, or whether you get ignored or not, is simply wrong, and doesn’t acknowledge a lot of sl*tshaming. That said, there is no way to be 'immune' to any kind of harassment, and I cant claim this scenario with complete strangers would be the same in any other kind of context.

There is a way to acknowledge that looks do not carry any responsibility for harassment and assault, while also being aware that there are factors that increase the likelihood of it within certain contexts, no matter how unfair that is or how much it isn’t the responsibility of the victim at all.

However, I do see how my original comment came off wrong and I apologise for sending the wrong type of message.

i understand what you’re saying, absolutely, and thank your for recognising how it may have come across. i think the subject at hand is a very sensitive one, and i appreciate how you’ve elaborated on what you meant. i have a far better understanding of your original meaning now that it’s clearer here. thank you, love!

alpacaparties replied to your post “me: i don’t think i can call myself bisexual or lgbt i’ve never met...”

I think ace people can still be turned on by images/porn and masturbate etc, but they're just not attracted to people in real life. Or you just haven't found someone you feel attracted to. Or you need a certain type of bond with someone first? Sexuality is complicated, which is why I don't label myself (I don't really identify with one category either) and take things as they come

it’s the volume of ‘or’s that get me in terms of my confusion. i don’t really identify wholly with anything i’ve seen yet, but that’s not abnormal - i know a lot of people struggle with their sexual identity. i’m sticking with ‘queer’ for now, bc some days it’s the only thing that feels ... right. i think.

grimdarkfandango replied to your post “me: i don’t think i can call myself bisexual or lgbt i’ve never met...”

still valid bi identity if that is what makes sense/feels comfortable to you, in-person physical attraction is not only tied to our reactions/desires for the other party but also our own feelings towards our physical self, & there's research into the comparative safety/freedom of desiring celebrities/those out of reach vs those within proximity. figuring out who when and why u wanna horizontal tango with is 

difficult and weird and ongoing thanks tumblr for cutting me off there, technology is biphobic

it really is. but yeah, i totally understand what you’re saying 100%. i think that’s (meaning the safety of attraction to celebrity/wholly unreal people) also very likely the case with me and my identity/self issues, why i kept myself super fat for so long, and a hermit, and a million other things, because to a degree all those things reasons/excuses/safety/security against real life and real relationships. they’re bricks in a wall that i get to hide behind so i never have to do the super scary shit, basically. i’m just still in a place where i’m trying to figure out if i want to keep the wall and who i am behind it.

alone-but-unafraid replied to your post “me: i don’t think i can call myself bisexual or lgbt i’ve never met...”

Agree with GDF^^ I've recently discovered that I was greysexual instead of bisexual like I thought for 5 years. Sexuality is fluid and really up to you in how you define yourself (if you choose to at all). That being said, have you heard of autochorissexual?

i have, yes, and it’s not applicable in my case. i’ve been kinda drifting between labels for a long time but i do feel like until i have any idea of who i am, i’m not going to know where i fit in. which makes sense, i guess.

alpacaparties replied to your post: i don’t know how to convince myself that things...

I have the same motivational problem, but what kind of works for me is I do things based on others’ expectations of me. If I were to go out to the park and read a book in the sun, I do it to to become more like or seem more like the type of person who does those things, instead of someone who stays holed up inside all day. So if you go sit somewhere and enjoy a coffee, you become That Woman Sitting There Enjoying A Coffee for a bit, instead of you. A bit ike an escape.

i think that’s largely what motivates me to want to do those things - that i really want to be the kind of person who does them, at least seemingly so to other people? that it could normalize me? the fact that i never do the thing is more a combination of lack of motivation to step outside my hermit comfort zone, and because of how hard it is to be in public with the way i look. i tend to get a lot of stares, glares, and at worst things yelled at me and thrown at me - being genuinely ugly in public is almost a crime to a lot of folks.

i think a part of me wonders if by doing ‘normal’ people things that my general approval from strangers would increase, or i could somehow use these activities to transform from the hermit crone ugly duckling into some kind of swan, but realistically i’m aware that’s wishful thinking and absurd, so i never do the things. if that makes sense?

oh how i wish it were so, though