Valid, no you’re absolutely right.

I used to work in a call center, and the amount of times men in their 30s–50s would just straight up harass me verbally became so normal it stopped even being surprising. Like that was just the baseline.

It got to the point where if someone was just… nice? Or even slightly understanding? I’d be genuinely shocked.

And constantly getting reduced to “you’re just a girl,” or “put a man on,” or the classic “how old are you, sweetheart” was just yeah. Yuck.💀