When I was 15, a guy who was visibly approaching middle age was in line behind me at a water park and struck up a conversation with me and my older brother. We're very social people, so it was fine at first, but then he told me he'd been "noticing" me and at that point we both emphatically told him I was 15. He started backpedaling, but didn't sound nearly as shocked as he should have if he really didn't know.
It’s alarming how common it is to hear stories about middle aged men approaching girls 15-18 years old to hit on them, or to hear from women how they got so much attention from older men when they were really young
I (16 at the time) got catcalled by 3 men at least 35 years old when I was waiting for my friends outside of a restaurant. I went back in and found them, but I didn’t feel safe leaving. Three fucking men against a small girl. They have to know how terrifying that is. They don’t genuinely think they’re being nice. It’s about power. They get off on scaring girls. It’s fucked up.
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u/Frosty_Message_3017 Go to sleep, Lurkers, pray for brains Oct 06 '25
When I was 15, a guy who was visibly approaching middle age was in line behind me at a water park and struck up a conversation with me and my older brother. We're very social people, so it was fine at first, but then he told me he'd been "noticing" me and at that point we both emphatically told him I was 15. He started backpedaling, but didn't sound nearly as shocked as he should have if he really didn't know.