‘Put weight on, have you?’
New submission from Elle
These two incidents happened within 10 minutes of each other, so perhaps there’d been some kind of perverts convention or something, who knows. Anyway, I go into a corner shop to buy a quick snack before the gym. Before I’ve even made eye contact with the man behind the counter he leers and says ‘Hello gorgeous, how are you?’. I turn and walk out. He’s just lost a customer for life. Then, while in the gym, I hopped on the scales to see how my diet was going. A man I have never seen before let alone spoken to came up behind me and leaned his arm on my shoulder, pressing his weight down and laughnig, saying ‘Put weight on, have you? Just kidding!’ I wish I’d thought to confront him but I was so surprised and shocked I didn’t. I hate how some men use their physicality to make you feel small.
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I would complain to the gym management. They should make it clear to this man and all the other entitled arseholes that inappropriate comments and behaviour like this aren’t acceptable. It’s their job to make clients feel welcome and safe.
Because saying ‘hello gorgeous’ really makes you a ‘pervert’. Good Lord.