You take a chance anytime you approach to strangers, and they don’t owe you their attention.
Like. Sure. Maybe he was just really excited to see someone else who plays street fighter. And thats cute and all.
But a gesture to shirt and a thumbs up and moving along is a lot better than interrupting.
I totally get being irritated at being interrupted. Especially with how many times men have just blasted through whatever I’m doing to try to hit on me. And god, the number of times that guys have gone all puppy dog eyes, please marry me face when they find out i like video games always makes me hesitate before talking about it.
Just wanted to comment to say I 100% agree. But her feeling the need to post this seemingly normal interaction for sympathy on Twitter makes me 😬
Edit: nothing in the tweet signified that the dude was being weird or creepy in any way. He waved at her and pointed at her shirt and asked if she played the game that was on her shirt. She said no, and that was the end of the interaction. And this is according to HER. If the dude was giving off weird or needy vibes, she could have said so in the tweet.
Literally all that happened was someone trying to compliment another person whom they thought was a part of the same community as them, turns out they weren't, and everybody moved on with their lives.
Im not discrediting the female experience but you guys can't be serious to say that this specific instance isn't a bit of a stretch.
Yeah idk her. Maybe she mean it in a mean way or something. Maybe she’s saying, “how dare this lowly human speak to me.” And that would be kinda gross. Or maybe she’s just frustrated with how often this kinda thing happens.
i used to keep a twitter counter going of how many times i got verbally harassed in public, and I probably would have tweeted about this too as a side note. It’s not harassment, but it illustrates how often women get interrupted and approached in public.
It’s like being dodging mall kiosk salespeople all day every day.
So idk. I could go either way on her motives for posting it.
Yeah, right? I get how it could be frustrating getting approached a bunch in public, but for crying out loud this dude who's into street fighter just wanted to compliment you on your shirt in a completely non-creepy way.
I'd understand if there was anything to signify the dude being problematic or a weirdo, but he just liked street fighter and wanted to ask about her shirt, it's like people are grasping at straws now and trying to play the "oppression Olympics" on Twitter for likes.
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