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this body is NOT public property ...even if it is for sale sometimes. fucking men.
earlier (but late). albina and killingsworth. he drove by in tan suv, i was on my super-geek headset talking to grover. he stopped and stared in front of me. put on blinker, turned left - away from me. i watched. he was going around the MOTHERFUCKING block. great. i watched him come back, while telling grover exactly what i was going to say to this fuck if he actually stopped and tried anything. of course. he stops. window down.
"you need a ride?"
"no thanks, i'm quite fine."
window up, off he goes.
to grover: "that was not as unpleasant as it could've been."
conversation continues. motherfucker comes back going the other direction. stops in the middle of the street.
"blah blah blah, money, i'm going on a trip, you want to come with me, money, take ride with me, blah blah blah."
"you know, i am really okay, i'm on my way home and i have things to do. thanks anyway."
"you sure? i have money... i can give you ride home."
"no. really. i'm fine. thanks, bye."
"why not?"
"i have things to do. i'm not far from home. i'm not changing my mind. bye."
he drives away.
**this is not exact, as far as words exchanged goes. but it's fucking close.**
a man that had walked by earlier came walking back by (really sweet guy, i'd say), and said something like "he tryin to pick you up, huh?" yeah, i tell him... he says some other things, says i'm good-looking, i tell him yeah, but that doesn't mean my body is fucking public property. he tells me to be real careful, this is a bad neighborhood and he sees girls on the news all the time... he liked how i handled that guy, though. he tells me to have a nice night. grover heard at least all of my words through these interactions. thank god for her. oh. thank god for my self control. i could have killed him.

so. this is a long post... but a few things: i had my ass grabbed downtown the day before yesterday, quickly followed by "yeah, see dude, i told you that was a girl." because i'm not even human, duh. i couldn't even get any words out.
another guy, the week that i was home between trips, walks up to me, staring up and down, hardcore. i stare back. i said "hi." he says "you have a really interesting body shape." "mmhmm." i say. "i like it." he replies. my eyes get wide, my head tilts. i say "thanks." and turn around and walk away.
and i'm trying now to figure out why these things are happening here in portland, when i've always been pretty pleased with the lack of this bullshit. this is why i do not live in ohio. it's MY ass. MY body. you don't deserve to even look at it unless i say it's okay. as is the same with ALL women's bodies. men's, too... okay, sure.
so, in trying to figure this out tonight, it fucking hits me.
i'm thin.
well, a hell of a lot thinner than i've been in a long ass time.
when i left portland this summer: size 38.
now: 32's are slightly too big.
it's just too fucked up for me to even put more words to it than that. i'd like to vomit.
that's just fucked.

Date: 2005-09-25 12:18 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] notyourmama2.livejournal.com
You know, growing my hair is doing the exact same thing...exponentially increasing the amount of weird dude attention and harrassement.

Makes me want to get 'big dyke' tattooed across my chest. Or maybe just 'no'.

F

Date: 2005-09-26 05:27 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] charlz-lynn.livejournal.com
i was thinking about maybe getting "hey, fuck off"

Date: 2005-09-25 07:14 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] pdxdrums.livejournal.com
The weight thing...yeah. I understand that. A couple years before I moved to PDX I joined a gym for the first time and started working out with a personal trainer and meeting with a nutritionist. In about six months time I'd dropped about 75lbs. and I felt great. Until I started getting the comments. And the looks. It was this weird feeling that I had previously been invisible and now suddenly people could see me. Guys started talking to me and looking at me and making inappropriate comments. It freaked me the fuck out! At least when I was fat I was invisible and they didn't even notice me. It was awful and I felt so conflicted because I liked working out and I liked how I felt and looked but I couldn't deal with the attention.

I've always been a big kid but I know a lot of my chub is a defense mechanism. So fucked up.

Date: 2005-09-26 05:31 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] charlz-lynn.livejournal.com
it's so gross, the way people behave. and what they think is acceptable.

Date: 2005-09-26 02:47 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] cattack.livejournal.com
Oh, god... that shit makes me so angry. I get cat-called and grabbed at all the fucking time here. The harassment has definitely gotten worse, though, since I lost weight (I got **really** sick last year; after I got better, my body decided to stay thin) and have hair that's more than 2-inches long.

Date: 2005-09-26 05:29 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] charlz-lynn.livejournal.com
it makes me SOOO mad. ugh. everyone. every woman i know.

Date: 2005-09-26 05:37 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] fagtastic.livejournal.com
i love being your "butch girlfriend" alison.

however - i hate idiots. really, i do.

Date: 2005-09-26 02:56 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] zenious-zeniou.livejournal.com
motherfuckers. stay strong duder.

Date: 2005-09-26 05:28 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] charlz-lynn.livejournal.com
thanks... doin my best.

Date: 2005-09-26 05:37 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] fagtastic.livejournal.com
it fucking sucks.
i hear things only on uber outter femme days. people can be so stupid!

however - i am excited about your cell phone! and, see you sat?! oxo

Date: 2005-09-26 06:18 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] charlz-lynn.livejournal.com
it's funny you mentioned that, about "outer femme days," because for two of these incidents i was wearing my work clothes- covered in paint, tiger cubs hat, work boots... and for all three i was presenting really butch.
so, this is what's fucked up. like, i wonder to myself "why the hell are these straight assholes trying to pick me up or harassing me when i pass as a boy without trying?" and then i get even more pissed because NOBODY should be harassed like that, and the people i know who regularly present femme get harassed all the time. it's to be expected. so so very screwed up. vom.

Date: 2005-09-26 06:23 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] fagtastic.livejournal.com
weird.
i think people sometimes just need to SHUT UP and they really need to not be so fucking creepy.

when i used to be uber butch back in the day (that line makes me laugh right there) strange men would hit on me in that way of fucking with me because then they could figure out "what" i was. also - i feel like they prob gay action and by fucking someone who regardless of how one ids, if they think they are a butch lady, its sort of gender fucking in a way and could be "gay enough" for them. you know? the "gay sex" without the "gay" for them.

erm. am i being clear? my head hurts and im sleepy.

and really. people are just fucking stupid and gross and really need to learn to BACK OFF. the end.

Date: 2005-09-27 05:42 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] charlz-lynn.livejournal.com
you know what else is funny? when i get "sir"ed and then i open my mouth to talk, they figure out that i'm a girl. then they start hitting on me.
yeah, maybe you oughtta investigate yer sexuality a little bit, buckaroo.
puke.

Date: 2005-09-27 07:56 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] fagtastic.livejournal.com
no kidding!

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