men feel entitled to women’s time and energy. they don’t think of us as full human beings with our own lives, boundaries and interiority. we exist as objects of entertainment to comfort them, keep them company or give them attention. in their mind a woman just existing in a
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public space already means that
it’s a free for all where anything goes. she put herself out there in a public space, the domain of men, so according to them she should’ve expected this. now she’s becoming their object, public property, with which they can do as they please.
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men remind us that public space belongs to them exclusively as they make it hostile for women through catcalling, harassment, SA, random acts of violence, flashing, forcing conversations that aren’t reciprocated and then acting in an imposing, aggressive, or threatening manner to
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scare us. women dread taking public transportation, walking down alleyways, narrow hallways, etc. but cities and buildings are not designed with the lived realities of women in mind. and men continue to harass and make women’s worlds smaller as women start to avoid certain
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