From personal experience: do NOT allow men to rob your space (in real life or online)

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[–]YoutiaoLover 6 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 0 fun7 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Yes! I believe attitude matters more than physical size. I told my friends that good posture, confidence and fierceness are effective to repel perverts and harassment. But they always said, "Easy for you to say, you're tall!"

Thank you for sharing, I'll try bringing your post up soon! Hopefully this can help them see that they can do it too :)

[–]vitunrotta[S] 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Great! And yes - at least from my extensive personal experience I can tell that attitude counts for 99%. I guess physical size might make some men more apprehensive but it absolutely does not deter them. In fact, I'd wager that they can use size as a reason to harass also: if you don't "look like a real woman" or whatever BS. Height or weight (or combination of both) can be easily used against a woman too, there are plenty of examples of this if you just check the comments on an Instagram account of any tall/big woman.

As mentioned it certainly was not an easy exercise but damn, was it worth it. And like another user stated: fake it 'til you make it. Enough practice and eventually you're likely reach the moment where you really don't give a fuck anymore. :)