"... most men, even good caring men, have no clue what we go through on a daily basis..."

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48. I was in an encounter like that...

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About 20 years ago, in NYC, just outside the SOHO neighborhood. I was walking to work, early enough that there's little foot traffic. After turning a corner, a little ahead of me going in the same direction was a very big guy pacing a woman who was very deliberately keeping moving and not looking at him. He was "talking" to her with a litany that was a little less directly threatening than the guy in the story, but not by much, and was equally unconstrained by any standard of 'normal' behavior.

I really didn't know what to do. I wasn't quite up to volunteering to have the shit beat out of me (or worse, if he had a knife or gun on him) first thing in the morning by actively confronting him, so I stepped up my pace and put myself right alongside, so that it was very obvious there was someone else right there. And he eye'd me and kept on talking.

So it went on like this for a few more minutes until she got to where she was going and got in her door. He stalked off, and, well, I went to work.