Kate
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To put it another way, a guy on the street telling you you’re beautiful is simply saying what he thinks will get you to talk to him. He may or may not even think you’re beautiful, he is just trying to get your attention.
There’s a guy on the street in Boston who always says something like, are you afraid to shake a black person’s hand?? EVERYONE takes it personally and tries to prove they’re not racist so they stop and talk to him. I fell for it once, but since then I’ve seen him a dozen times, saying it to literally everyone. I told him to cut the shit and stop saying that, as it’s really rude, and now he doesn’t say it to me. I’m not saying do this to catcallers, the point is just, these people are trying to get ANYONE’s attention, and “you’re beautiful” is just a tactic.
Yeah… “you’re beautiful” can be a compliment, but when it comes from a random guy on the street it’s just another, albeit less vulgar, way to aggressively claim your attention and patronize you. I don’t give a fuck if some rando sitting on a stool outside the convenience store thinks I’m beautiful. Please keep your comments about my physical appearance to yourself, unless you’re some lady in the bathroom complimenting my boots or my hairstyle. Then I assume, ok, you’d like to have similar boots or hairstyle, so I say where I got them or that I saw a tutorial on YouTube. You’re not trying to capture my attention so you can try to achieve some patriarchal sexual claim on me. PS, I’m NOT beautiful and I get that pretty regularly. It’s meaingless.
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