In that case I guess I just hang around in the wrong places, or with the wrong people, or in the wrong body, to have experienced it as being that common.
So you won't believe me... :P
Seriously, as I've been saying, we do deliberately insulate ourselves from this kind of threatening/insulting behaviour to a great extent. My main awareness that it exists was how much I've got it in the past, especially in Leicester (although usually I try and forget about it so as not to carry on feeling gross and angry and violated all day, which is why I don't have many off-hand examples - and of course I don't publically express affection with women anywhere near as often as I do with men) and the anecdotal evidence of lots of other people. I was hoping some of them would chime in to back me up.
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So you won't believe me... :P
Seriously, as I've been saying, we do deliberately insulate ourselves from this kind of threatening/insulting behaviour to a great extent. My main awareness that it exists was how much I've got it in the past, especially in Leicester (although usually I try and forget about it so as not to carry on feeling gross and angry and violated all day, which is why I don't have many off-hand examples - and of course I don't publically express affection with women anywhere near as often as I do with men) and the anecdotal evidence of lots of other people. I was hoping some of them would chime in to back me up.