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Oct. 20th, 2008 03:06 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
keryxAh, the men of Fairmount.
Saturday morning while I was stretching on the back porch, one stopped to pee on my fence. He looked around Sex Workers' Dispute Alley but not at the houses or yards that face it (there are like 4 - this is no dark and private alley), and was so surprised when I chortled that he turned around without zipping up. To his credit, he excused himself politely.
Sunday evening a slightly gap-toothed man in at least his 40s (I'd guess 50-something) on R street waved me over as I drove home. He wanted to tell me how sexy I am and ask if I'd call him if he gave me his number. He was also more-or-less polite, so I avoided pointing out that I do not drive down the street for his consumption and questions.
I'm annoyed by the presumption that some guy has a right to just proposition me like that, the idea that I should interrupt whatever I'm doing to consider it. Is this a class thing? A culture thing? The menfolk of my acquaintance pretty much never do this thing.
Ironically, I'm really not annoyed by the alley peeing at all.
Saturday morning while I was stretching on the back porch, one stopped to pee on my fence. He looked around Sex Workers' Dispute Alley but not at the houses or yards that face it (there are like 4 - this is no dark and private alley), and was so surprised when I chortled that he turned around without zipping up. To his credit, he excused himself politely.
Sunday evening a slightly gap-toothed man in at least his 40s (I'd guess 50-something) on R street waved me over as I drove home. He wanted to tell me how sexy I am and ask if I'd call him if he gave me his number. He was also more-or-less polite, so I avoided pointing out that I do not drive down the street for his consumption and questions.
I'm annoyed by the presumption that some guy has a right to just proposition me like that, the idea that I should interrupt whatever I'm doing to consider it. Is this a class thing? A culture thing? The menfolk of my acquaintance pretty much never do this thing.
Ironically, I'm really not annoyed by the alley peeing at all.
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Date: 2008-10-20 07:41 pm (UTC)I used to wonder why construction workers hooted at women, and even mused aloud why they did it since I was sure it had never gotten them a date. A coworker set me straight by informing me that was how she met her husband. That was a different culture, but an equally foreign one to me.
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Date: 2008-10-20 09:01 pm (UTC)I am clearly much more from the awkward pause and fumbling culture.
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Date: 2008-10-20 09:05 pm (UTC)"How you livin'?"
Marcia (squeaks): "Very well, thank you."
Me (whispering): "I think the correct answer is extra large."
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Date: 2008-10-20 11:43 pm (UTC)http://chpn.net/news/2008/10/20/sex-workers-dispute-alley-and-other-local-landmarks/
Also:
http://chpn.net/news/2006/05/11/an-open-letter-to-the-men-that-keep-urinating-in-the-alley/
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Date: 2008-10-21 12:25 am (UTC)I think if more women stand on their porches and laugh at the naked penises, the city's peeing in the street rate will drop dramatically.
Or. The alley peeers will think it's a come-on and have to tell us we're sexy.
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Date: 2008-10-21 03:46 pm (UTC)(no subject)
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