Comment on what's the best way to react if a guy stares at you like he wants to have sex with you when you're doing yoga?

Shortstack@reddthat.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• kambusha@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  The Gift of Fear by Gavin de Becker is a book about exactly this. It’s definitely worth a read, and his methods have been used by countless celebrities & public figures to assess threats.

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  • Shortstack@reddthat.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    You got me, this is what I’m referencing.

    If the topic of books comes up in conversation with random people I always recommend it if that’s the only book they read in their lifetime

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• Free_Opinions@feddit.uk ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Listen to that uneasy feeling and act on it.

  Unless it’s about some other group of people than men.

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  • Shortstack@reddthat.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Pulling out your gun and shooting the brown skinned dude going for a jog is a little bit different than packing it in and resolving to do yoga another day

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  • angrystego@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I don’t know what gender you are, but you’ve just triggered my spidey-gut.

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    • Free_Opinions@feddit.uk ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I don’t disagree with the advice to trust your gut, so I can’t blame you for doing the same thing.

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      • davidagain@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        I’m getting sexist racist homophobic anti trans vibes here. Should I trust my gut?

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  • ormr@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Yes that moral imbalance also striked me when reading this. When grandma has a gut feeling towards brown people and talks about that, she’d be called a bigot here. But when it’s about men, the highest upvoted advice is to listen to the feeling of fear in your gut…

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    • Droechai@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      If people only listened to their gut all people from a different culture which similar but not same body language as well as people with a disability would be even more estranged than today.

      What does your gut tell you about the guy in line at the tell who keeps his hand in his pockets and fiddling with something who then seem to panic a bit when someone tries to look him in the eyes? Is it a robber or an autistic person who don’t want to show his hand due to having a stim toy and have learned to not stim in public view?

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