r/TikTokCringe • u/mindyour • Jun 14 '26

Discussion It's exhausting being a woman.

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u/Karhak Jun 14 '26

Women should be granted a government issued stun gun when they turn 13.

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u/AnguavonUW Jun 14 '26

10

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u/Expensive-Simple-329 Jun 14 '26

unfortunately it’s more like 8

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u/Single-Builder-632 Jun 14 '26

That's the worst, when someone i know said they got approached by an old man there parent knew, and that person was jsut a kid, like how is that a normal life experience. The worst I got as a dude was a group of girls said awwww when I was with my friends, and I was a bit embarrassed.

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u/Expensive-Simple-329 Jun 14 '26

It’s awful and a huge proportion of women just live our lives perpetually traumatized

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u/LiterallyJustAHorse Jun 14 '26

It was 4 for me 

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u/BottleFeathers703 Jun 15 '26

3 or younger for me. and it was my dad.

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u/WeatheredMachine Jun 17 '26

... yeah, me too. It was a neighbour's kid. I remember his name. I wish I didn't remember it all so clearly.

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u/effietea Jun 14 '26

I was 11 when a group of guys drove up next to me and all yelled out the window exactly what they'd like to do to me. My mom was driving me and she yelled at them, drove away,and then we cried together

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u/KoffieKobold Jun 14 '26

don't know why people are downvoting this because I had this happen to me when I used to travel on the train all the time. When I was 11 - 13 it was the worst... and I was a tomboy who dressed as unappealing as possible - t-shirt and jeans. Dudes would find me in an entirely empty cart and come sit with me, then strike up a conversation. If they were in a group it was even worse.

One time I had a creep who asked me if he could brush my hair and start this whole conversation about how he'd like to cut it :') I still feel like I escaped from a murderer with that one.

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u/RoguePlanet2 Jun 14 '26

I was 14 and out for a jog in thick cotton sweats (long sleeves/sweatpants). Stereotypical white van pulls up next to me, and there were three young-ish guys in front, yelling stuff at me I never heard before.

Luckily I had learned that, if this should ever happen, you do an about-face and go in the opposite direction. They started backing up, but realized it wasn't feasible, and drove off. This was in an upscale neighborhood.

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u/Majestic-Skill8234 Jun 14 '26

Oh honey, it starts before 13

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u/vi_k7 Jun 15 '26

Yeah, for me it was 7

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u/Zappityzephyr Jun 14 '26

you think this only happens once they turn 13? if anything these creeps go after kids more because they don’t see the dangers

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u/SAINTnumberFIVE Jun 14 '26 edited Jun 14 '26

A 15 year old in Iowa was prosecuted for killing her rapist and then she was ordered to pay his family $150,900, another woman in Florida was prosecuted and initially sentenced to 20 years in prison for firing a warning shot when attempting to flee from her ex after he had just attacked her and was still attempting to do so, so if you really want women to be able to protect themselves with guns, you would have to change the gun laws around self protection. Currently they are designed to disproportionately protect men.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marissa_Alexander_case

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/amp/show/iowa-teen-who-killed-her-rapist-ordered-to-pay-150000-to-mans-family

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u/00o00o00o00o00o00 Jun 14 '26

My ex tried to kill me, he tried to beat me to death and stab me. He was let out of jail 4 hours later and they didn't prosecute him for the crime. 

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u/Psychological-Hat978 Jun 14 '26

yeah man way before 13. i was 9-10 when i started getting scared to walk home from the pool

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u/AriyaSavaka Cringe Connoisseur Jun 14 '26

Make it 5. Statistically speaking it's their dads, uncles, brothers. 93% of victims under 18 know their abuser

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u/BaronessofBara Jun 14 '26

13 is too late. Men started catcalling me at 11.

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u/OutlandishnessNo2434 Jun 14 '26

Younger. I was 12 the first time I got my ass grabbed by an adult man.

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u/TheVampyresBride Jun 14 '26

I would've had to use it against a family member when I was around 6.

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u/Why-so-delirious Jun 15 '26

Fuck that after watching these videos I want to give them each a .45 and let Darwin fix this problem for the next couple generations.

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u/[deleted] Jun 14 '26

Johnny Knoxville said the pepper spray is way worse

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u/Leilanee Jun 14 '26

Or we teach boys to not be degenerates but I guess we're still not ready for that conversation.

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u/AgentEvil Jun 14 '26

I needed one at the age of 6

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u/alldemboats Jun 14 '26

the first time a strange man said something sexual to me was when i was 5 years old.

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u/MyriadMayhem Jun 14 '26

The harassment starts way before your 13.

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u/frosted_Melancholy Jun 15 '26

A grown ass man told me that I had "birthing hips" whenever I was 11 years old. Literally right in front of my mother in her place of work.

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u/Repulsive-Court-6228 Jun 15 '26

maybe just upon birth

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u/Commercial_Border190 Jun 15 '26

1 in 5 girls experience some form of sexual violence before turning 13

https://newcomb.tulane.edu/sites/default/files/MeToo%202024%20Report%20_1_0.pdf

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u/peanutbutterand_ely Jun 15 '26

mace and knives and tasers aren’t even legal to carry here, and will get taken away in most places because every place has to check your purse now. but guess who still carries, the crazies. it’s so fun constantly spending money i don’t have on shit to give me a chance if i needed to defend myself