Elle Beau ❇︎
1 min readJan 5, 2023

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First off, you don't get to tell me whether I'm allowed to respond or speak further to this. If you are going to post opinions on the internet, you're going to get some that don't agree with you. If you don't want to interact with them, that's your choice, but short of blocking someone, you have no standing to tell them that they are done expressing their point of view.

And if you've already had 97 men pestering you that day (as that woman in NYC had), I can see how even Good Evening could be received as intrusive and demanding of a woman's attention, depending on how it was said - not just a simple greeting. Hitting on someone who has expressed no interest at all in your attention is out of line. Period. End of story. It's entitled and harassing. The fact that the girls in the video you mentioned said, "We weren't asking for it" indicates to me that this is exactly what they are complaining about. Existing in public is not an invitation for men to demand women's time and attention in any way, shape, or form. That's not how you actually meet someone and get them to spend time with you anyhow. It's a dominance posture.

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Elle Beau ❇︎
Elle Beau ❇︎

Written by Elle Beau ❇︎

I'm a bitch, I'm a lover, I'm a child, I'm a mother, I'm a sinner, I'm a saint. I do not feel ashamed. I'm your hell, I'm your dream, I'm nothing in between.

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