What's on Your Mind

[Karl Rand]

I just got taunted by a couple of dudes while walking in the street. They didn't say anything, just gave me the crazy eyes and waved their arms at me to block the sidewalk I was walking down. Thankfully they let me pass by by walking around them off in the road. I'm a bit flustered at the moment.

Oh wow!!! Scary shit for sure! 

I’ve been a pugnacious little shit since primary school having been taught to defend myself by a neighbour, and ex professional boxer. 
I understand though the threatening behavior of ‘straight’ male groups ( who are often up each other like rats up a drainpipe in private!).

Women often suffer the same treatment at the hands of males though.  In the late 1970’s I joined the Gay Liberation Front at Melbourne University becoming friends with a fascinating dyke. Her parents who ran a Salvation Army Mission to Seamen taught her to defend herself from an early age. Walking with Judy past a city building site a worker whistled at her and yelled “Hey lady, wanna fuck?” A short very ‘feminine’ dyke, Judy was the wrong target to pick. She walked onto the building site and in an ever so polite manner asked him ‘Were you the gentleman who whistled at me?’ Him “ Yeh lady - what are ya gunna do about it” Upon which Judy king hit him unconscious. Now doubt his workmates who witnessed this reminded him of the event for a long time afterwards. Judy later on ran a shelter for bashed and abused women in another city. I imagine a number of men who somehow tracked their ex wives etc down to the shelter were soon taught a lesson.