So, here’s where I admit to being completely naive when it comes to how women have to live in the world. I have had friends tell me of their experiences with bad male behavior in public, including someone I dated in high school telling me that she often had men pinch or tap her ass in public, but this is craziness…
From Heidi Roizen’s It’s Different for Girls:
Years later, we decided to raise venture capital. I was meeting with a Boston-based VC in his office. He had a window behind his head and, unbeknownst to him or the other people in the office, I could see a reflection in that window of what was going on behind my head in the corridor (all-glass offices can be quite revealing in this way.) As I pitched him, one of his partners engaged in a pantomime in the corridor, making a circle with the fingers of one hand while poking his other fingers through the circle, then thrusting his hips in a sexual fashion.
Despicable…