Today I have been SmartSesqui, which meant I was wearing a summer dress (the thing about leaving the house at 7am is you don't really have much to go on regarding what the weather is like) and *makeup*. (Shock horror!)
While walking home a random bloke shouted "Bella!" in my ear as he walked past.
I am a Bad Feminist. It made me feel good. And not even slightly Oppressed by the Patriarchy.
ETA I don't actually think I am a Bad Feminist. (This is an oblique dig at all the "no feminism but mine own" types.) Or that anyone else faced by this situation would or should react in the same way I did, or that they wouldn't or shouldn't. This man's behaviour was inapropriate. It just didn't bother me.
While walking home a random bloke shouted "Bella!" in my ear as he walked past.
I am a Bad Feminist. It made me feel good. And not even slightly Oppressed by the Patriarchy.
ETA I don't actually think I am a Bad Feminist. (This is an oblique dig at all the "no feminism but mine own" types.) Or that anyone else faced by this situation would or should react in the same way I did, or that they wouldn't or shouldn't. This man's behaviour was inapropriate. It just didn't bother me.