Fight or Flight

Just because a woman dresses nice”—I gestured to myself—“doesn’t mean she’s advertising that she’s looking for a guy to take notice.”
“No, you’re right. It doesn’t. But it would be naive tae think that some men dinnae still think that it does.”
“Oh, I know that. But I refuse to let misogyny and sexism and sexually aggressive a-holes dictate what I put on my body and how I do my makeup or my hair.”

We were just different people, and just because you didn’t agree with someone on everything didn’t mean he was a bad person.

So was I a bitch? Or was I fully in my rights to feel defensive and wronged when men treated me like prey?
Yes, I was absolutely within my rights.