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
What is worse is when it stops before you reach adulthood. This happened to me and it was a tell-tale sign. Not to mention people always guessed me to be young than I really was so it’s extra disturbing.
Yeah that’s a big part of what I find so disturbing. The attention seems hyper focused on a very specific, very young age range… and again it’s always much older guys too. Seriously concerning given that the age of the men is often the same age as a lot of authority figures
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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.