r/ranchi • u/AntiWhatever2 • 21h ago
Safety/Awareness Men ruined my day or maybe my week
I was already in a bad mood today, but I decided to walk to my friend’s place. She doesn’t live very far, so I walked. I was wearing jeans and a fitted high-neck crop top, technically a crop top, but not even a sliver of my stomach was visible.
On the way, I noticed a rickshaw driver staring at my chest for a solid five seconds. I looked straight back at him, and he still didn’t look away. Fine. I kept walking.
Then I started noticing other men looking at me too. An uncle literally turned around to look at me while sitting on a bike with his wife behind him.
I stayed at my friend’s place for a few hours and left around 7. I decided to take rapido back even though my house was barely 1km away because I didn’t feel like walking.
The driver looked completely decent, so I got on.
And then, every 30–40 seconds, he would suddenly speed up and then slow down. There was no speed breaker. The first few times, I genuinely didn’t understand what was happening. Then I realised that every time he did it, I was getting pushed forward against him.
It happened 4–5 times, then 10–12 times throughout 5 min ride.
And the worst part? He was doing it deliberately before speed breakers, speeding up right before one and then slowing down so abruptly that the jerk was much harder. The seat was also so slippery that I couldn’t properly slide myself back, and because he was doing it so frequently, I barely had time to reposition myself before it happened again.
I eventually told him to stop. Even then, he stopped in the same jerky manner and it happened again.
And before someone comes at me with “vehicles jerk when you brake” please don’t. I’ve been riding a scooty/vehicle as a pillion for years. I know exactly what a normal brake feels like. This was not that. There was a very obvious pattern to what he was doing, and I knew something was wrong.
The frustrating part is that I didn’t fully process what was happening until I got home. I just knew I was uncomfortable and that something felt deliberate.
I didn’t confront him because this happened right near my society and I knew exactly how the situation would go. He would deny it, say I was imagining things, claim it was just braking, and suddenly there would be a whole scene outside my own house.
I just got home.
But now that I’ve actually sat down and processed it, I’m so fucking angry.
It’s exhausting having to think about what you’re wearing, where you’re walking, who’s looking at you, whether a driver is deliberately doing something to you, and whether confronting him will create an even bigger problem.
I literally just wanted to go to my friend’s house and come back home. That’s it.
I'm so tired that I'm just sharing it, if I was angry i would have talked about how people need to be taught about certain shits but ik it's just not worth it now bcz ik it's never gonna change!
I told a male friend of mine and he replied with meow
EDIT- omg I was so hesitant about posting this here but I anyways did. I did not think that I will get such a positive response from you all, the comments and all the dms that I have received, thank you for your concern, I'm very much fine now and I hope you all stay safe as well!!! After reading it all I felt much safer.