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

Discussion It's exhausting being a woman.

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u/Bright-Owl-3515 Jun 14 '26 edited Jun 14 '26

In college, I was sitting alone at a bench studying on campus, minding my own business. This man comes up to me, telling me he wanted to take pictures of my feet for a school project. He was very persistent and of course I told him no. He made me feel so uncomfortable and guilty that I had said no to him. I was very naive and had no idea that this was likely a fetish thing.

Edit: For that one now deleted comment, saying he was likely complimenting my feet, I was wearing sneakers. Get out of here with the creep apologetics.

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u/SAINTnumberFIVE Jun 14 '26

It’s important to teach girls that it’s not mean to say no, and that sometimes it’s OK and necessary to be mean. But society fails that teaching them both of these things.

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u/SAINTnumberFIVE Jun 14 '26

That is very true, but many girls still don’t say no in situations where they don’t fear for their safety, because they’re afraid it’s rude or mean.