Woman Tells Street Harasser ‘No’ 10 Times to No Effect — Until She Says ‘I’m a Feminist’

Could this be the perfect creep repellent?

Photo by lesha tuman on Unsplash

Fellas, no means no…

Not maybe, not double down and try harder…

It means exactly as it says: I do not want you or whatever it is you have to offer, period!

But it seems even this simple, childlike concept is too much for some men to parse. Like this nutjob right here:

[embed]Video by leffrontee on Instagram

In case of playback issues, here is the breakdown.

The scene opens with a lady recording herself on what appears to be the Las Vegas Strip.

A guy can be heard in the background asking if she would like him to snap a picture, to which she responds, “No thanks.”

Undeterred, he presses on, “Are you sure? I’m happy to,” only for the answer to come back the same: “No, I’m okay, thanks.”

Seeing his opening gambit fall flat, he decides to pivot and come clean. “Hey, I was actually just like wanted to ask you, like, if you want, if I can get your number.”

“Um,” she hesitates ever so slightly, “I’m not interested, but…”

Before she can even finish off her sentence, our guy cuts her off with yet another “Are you sure… I think you’re cute.”

As if complimenting her was the missing ingredient all along. Spoiler alert: it’s not.

The conversation then continues downhill from here on, with each “no” met with an ever more desperate attempt. She must have said no six or seven times until she did something I have never seen a woman do before — at least not on camera.

She told him, “I’m a feminist.”

Those three simple words arranged in that specific order is what it took for him to finally accept her no. And it’s very telling.

Feminism is like kryptonite to entitled men

Who would have thought? Men who don’t respect women’s boundaries are also likely to be repulsed by feminism.

The girl in the video might have inadvertently discovered a secret cheat code to getting street harassers off women’s backs: just tell them you’re a feminist.

It’s definitely more effective than “no,” and I would go so far as to say it’s probably better than saying you are spoken for, too.

It really goes to show how much of a threat empowered women are to creeps. They know they won’t take their bullshit lying down.

For all you boundary-pushing men…

What exactly do you hope to accomplish? Humor me if you will.

Even if you manage to coerce her into giving you her number, what makes you think she is going to go out with you after the fact? In what universe does that even make sense? Do you not realize you would be lucky not to have your number blocked if she even gave you a real number to begin with?

The problem with the whole lot of you is that you have bought into the persistence rhetoric sold by dating coaches; they tell u to break her walls down, pass her shit test, when in reality it’s just harassment.

So once again, I will break this down to a toddler’s level so you understand: when approaching women in public or otherwise, as soon as you hear that first “no,” regardless of how you feel, a boundary has been set. If I were you, I would cut my losses and move on.

Should you continue and get a second no, it’s now harassment, and anything that happens to you after that (like getting recorded and publicly shamed online) is fair game.