Understanding What Women Go Through

I once went to a friend’s Halloween party dressed as a woman. The costume was pretty convincing. I shaved my legs and had someone apply makeup. I put on a blond wig, a blue dress, and a pair ladies’ velvet gloves that extended nearly up to the elbow. The gloves helped to obscure the masculine appearance of my arms and hands. I even wore five-inch heels. I had to practice walking in the shoes for two weeks to get ready for the event.

I drove to the party in a car with three women - three actual women, not fakes like me. On the way home, our car was pursued by a bunch of young men in a large four-wheel-drive pickup truck. They thought that they had spotted a car full of women, so they decided to be playful in their own weird and desperate way. They tailgated us for a couple of miles and flashed their lights in an effort to try to get us to pull over. When I refused to stop, the pickup truck shot past us. As they passed, the two idiots in the back of the truck dropped their pants and shot the moon in our direction. Just what I wanted to see, a couple of hairy-assed morons!

Let this fact sink in for a moment. The one and only time that I went out in the world looking like a woman, I got harassed by men. My female alter ego has a one-hundred percent harassment rate. That’s how prevalent this problem is. And that is why we need to BELIEVE women when they say that they have dealt with unwanted advances. Because if it can happen to ME while driving around in a Dodge Dart wearing mascara and a cheap wig, imagine what kind of attention they have to put up with.

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