Postperson wrote:
For young women who don't want this sort of attention, the only solution I know of is to 'frump it up', wear baggy, daggy unfeminine clothing, possibly glasses and tie your hair back. It's a hard thing for women to get their head around as the whole culture tells you to look attractive at all times.
As long as you're young you generally do attract attention, when you get a bit wrinklier, say over 40, this sort of thing tends to die off a bit.
I don't know of any other way and I used to be a 'traffic stopper' in my youth.
Try carrying a fake baby wrapped in a blanket. That might work, considered gwenevyn wrote that having her young child with her in public made her invisible to men, whereas she received much flirting while alone. Any suggestion of parenthood, I am told, will scare most men off.
ViatorRose wrote:
When I am out with my father I am mostly unnoticed. But, when out alone I am subject to the most inappropriate suggestions and unwelcome attention.
Interesting... Looks like seeing women with their families scares men off.
Parenthood scares men off becase a) they do not want to be roped into becoming responsible for another man's child, b) they may not like children and even if they do, they do not want to be seen as an interloper. Children can react very negatively to a woman's new boyfriend, c) The kids always come first, not him.
07 Sep 2009, 6:02 pm
