What's Wrong With Society-Precautions of the Woman

Nothing has bothered me more about growing into a young woman than the fact that I have to be extra cautious. I cannot count how many times I have felt uncomfortable or been hit on by some creepy guy when I was out in public. It does not matter the age, but guys seem to think they can just say whatever they want to and it will not have any consequences.

It seems that our society puts the word sex and woman together far too often. For instance, in many of Carl's Junior's ads, they have featured beautiful women in bikinis seductively eating a burger. One day, I stumbled upon a video titled, "If Men Were Featured In Ads The Same Way Women Are" and I found myself laughing at a shirtless, six-pack man seductively eating a burger. However, this is not a joke. Why does it seem, even to a woman like myself, so odd when a man is sexualized in an ad but when women are it just feels normal? It is because of this and countless other reasons that men feel that it is "normal" to hit on girls of any age, at any time, anywhere.

I am disgusted with the fact that I am not comfortable going most places by myself. Not because I cannot take care of myself, but because I have had so many experiences where I have been followed and put in an inappropriate situation because of a man I do not know. Even when I have been in a group of girlfriends, I have been hit on or followed. However, the second a man enters the group, no other men even think about messing with me. How messed up is this picture?

How many men can say that a female stranger has touched their butt, cat-called at them, followed them for blocks, rode along beside them on the street to force them to give them your number, or just made them feel exposed and scared? I would have to say, not many, while I can disappointingly say I have experienced all of these. Other women can attest to creepy men stories as well.

We should be in a society where women and men are equal. Women are not just a sex symbol. We are as human as any man is. We are not just a walking body to be misused and hit on. I would love to reach a day when I do not have to constantly look behind me when I am walking alone anywhere or let my friend know exactly where I am going on a first date. That would be a world far more normal than this one.

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