elodieunderglass:

thebibliosphere:

glumshoe:

What is the weirdest way you have deflected/discouraged street harassment?

Talked about giant hats with excruciating volume and enthusiasm.

Stared fixedly and menacingly straight into his eyes, while putting a finger straight up my nostril. Eye contact was locked in, my attention was fixed with alien intensity, I had the significant manner of one about to play a devastating power move. 

When it went in up to the second knuckle, and kept going, his courage failed. He was no longer in control of the situation. he was shaken to the core. he still held onto my arm, but now he was no longer meaning to stop me; he was holding it for support, and he trembled. we had gone off the script. we had gone off the rails.  dominance had been established and he did not like its polarity. the sense of chaos and menace was roiling off of me and not him, and I was looking him right in the eyes and shoving  an ENTIRE finger into my skull cavity, and he was afraid. 

“I’m,” said the man, deeply shocked, “Sorry! I,,,,” 

and, holding his hands up, he let go of me and just went right back into the dark alley he had sprung out of earlier like a bad cartoon character. like an eel zooping backwards into its coral. Like a piece of reversed film. He just physically went “Edit: undo” until we were done, he ctrl+z’ed that whole harassment/mugging action. never seen anything like it. don’t know what came over me. the wings of a trickster god, maybe. I’d never done that with my finger/nose before, and I never have again. Don’t try it, I’m serious now