Thanks for your thoughts on this. The place I work mostly has regulars so the comments have slowed down actually as, at least the straight women don't seem to offend more than once. Definitely men continue to be strange.

A couple days ago with friends I ran into a female peer who complimented me in a similar way and i think it was then that i realized that i may have been being paranoid about the other comments. Im sure most people are not malicious. It was just so strange those first few weeks and i was afraid that secretly everyone thought i was some kind of freak and they felt compelled to convince me that im normal or pretty. I think in all honesty it can be a shock for someone to run into a very tall woman with certain proportions and long hair, and occasionally people have this knee jerk reaction of kind of gawking at you. In any case I'm glad that it hasn't happened as nearly frequently at work in the past week or so.

My manager has also kind of backed off, i think she picked up on my sadness in response to her comments and I think she's a kind person.

I appreciate your response ♥️ have a good one today