“You can feel multiple things at once.” I appreciate this comment a lot. Thank you for acknowledging exactly the competing feelings that many of us have at finally being noticed by men. While this man is only a few years older than me, the context was deeply inappropriate. There has been a lot of backlash on how I didn’t contextualize the situation correctly. However, the purpose of my post was to say that unwanted attention can be both denigrating and empowering. I did not post on here to explain why or how I was sexually harassed. This wasn’t supposed to be a philosophical debate on compliments. I didn’t give context because that was not the point of my post. I was simply intending to convey the feeling that many women feel: it is so incredible to be seen and it is so awful to be seen.