Yes I have big bewbs and may be pretty...

[Hobbs]

For best effect, they should be intimidating-looking. That does not always mean big. For instance, my friend Scott back in Phoenix? Not big. Thin, only slightly taller than me. Also looks like a freakin' serial killer, and can give a glare that can stop a bulldozer a block away. Seriously. On the other hand, I have known several large guys that looked like teddy bears, that intimidated nobody. Size is not the only factor that makes a guy look intimidating.

(I can BE intimidating, but don't LOOK intimidating, mind you.)

I always drop comments like, "I don't need a gun..." or something. Mostly for effect, but technically true.

As for the teddy-bear big guys? Our Door Agent is a big Samoan-looking dude, very intimidating. A CW who was Door Agent for a while was a big honkin' white guy....but completely 'Good Ole Boy.'

Oh, and I'm signing up to be a Door Agent, woot!!

[RecoveringKinkoid]

I don't like using a real or imagined SO to get guys to lay off because I do not like the implication that any creepy guy (I'm talking to you, Robert) that happens to be bothering me needs to think that I am not competent enough to take care of business myself.

That's not to say I will not abolutely play that card. I will and I have. But that is a card that must be played very carefully. lest you send out the message that when alone, you are an easy target.

[RetailWorkhorse]

Also, what's with guys walking on the street or driving by cat calling or hitting on you?

Try being a pretty little girly-looking boy and that happening. -_-'

[Akasa]

Another thing I've found that works is using an "anrgy mom" voice. If you have it down right you will not only make kids cringe and scurry, but grown men as well.

[Hobbs]

Another thing I've found that works is using an "anrgy mom" voice. If you have it down right you will not only make kids cringe and scurry, but grown men as well.

I try out my R Lee Ermey impression

[fireheart]

Well, I guess the whole "I have a boyfriend" thing may not have some half-truth to it
I've got a date lined up with one of the guys who is an apprentice butcher across from us in the mall. Show him wielding a butcher knife

[Seshat]

"Do you know what Thelma and Louise did to the asshole in the truck?"


If they say they don't, feel free to improvise things they didn't do. Otherwise, that line alone should probably shut them up.


(For those who haven't seen it, it involved guns and big flaming explosions. Details left vague for non-spoilerage.)

[LadyAndreca]

Another thing I've found that works is using an "anrgy mom" voice. If you have it down right you will not only make kids cringe and scurry, but grown men as well.

I have my mother's stern tone and glare-over-the-glasses down pat.

[morgana]

I apparently also have the patented Glare o' Death. I'll raise one eyebrow, turn on the burn-in-hell vibe, and just *look*. I have made large drunk men cringe.

A most useful talent.

[FenigDurak]

Also, what's with guys walking on the street or driving by cat calling or hitting on you? I'm sorry -- you're skeezy and creepy and I want NOTHING to do with you! And don't call me a b*tch when I ignore you either -- I just want to be left alone!

Back when I worked at the comic book store I used to take the bus to work. Which meant that I had to walk a few blocks from the stop to the store front. I also used to wear a lot of strange, assymetrical tops that I made myself when working since it was a no uniform environment.

So I'm walking one day when I notice a white SUV driving in the center turn lane very slowly with the driver staring at me. I think he's waiting for me to walk across the street to turn, so at the corner I stop and look at him to see if he was going to turn or wait for me to cross, but instead he calls out "HOW MUCH?" I'm not even 19 yet and so I get REALLY scared, scream "I AM NOT A HOOKER!" and take off running. Sunovabitch follows me to the store! Fortunately it was a Wednesday (new comic book day!) and so the boss and my only other coworker were there to go out and tell the guy what's what. I call my Mom in tears and we go the very next day to get my license renewed so I can start driving again.

To this day I will glare and look angry when walking anywhere to avoid this very situation.

[blas]

This is probably not the best way to go about it, but when I'm being checked out (even while at work when walking down the hallway) or when I'm at a store or the mall and some guy or a group of dirties think they should follow me, I do The Ice Princess. Because a very wise man once told me that guys can't stand snobby girls who think they are too good for them. It's one thing to not give too much away and make a man persue you, it's another to totally blow them off and make them feel bad for even looking your way.

Is it mean? Sure. But if you're doing a triple, quadruple take at me, and watching me from the window every step I take down the hallway, or I CATCH you staring at my rear end or if I'm at a store and I see you drooling and notice you've followed me all the way into cosmetics from grocery.....I will give you an evil look. I will stick my nose up at you. I will make you feel like you're the royal pooper scooper. Stop staring at me. You have no chance in Hell.

I have found that looking like you're a snobby evil bitch who is about to snap really makes people get out of your way and leave you alone. Men who are actually up to something want a girl who looks friendly and open because they'll think she's easily manipulated.

It's so funny. Then I get to the checkout and I'm all smiles and nice to the cashier, say "Have a nice day now," then push my cart out to my car, sending more evil glares at the guys eyeing me up like a summer sausage.

But when I have my boyfriend with me, it's a lot easier. He's pretty decently sized and very buff......although like Kinkoid, I hate feeling like a poor little girl.......

[AriRashkae]

It's not always "needing a protector." A lot of the time (for me, anyway), it's "You run the interference. I'm tired of dealing with it."

Think of him as your secretary for potential "dates". It's not your fault the guys are too chicken-shit to try to get past him.

[blas]

It's like clockwork. Simply amazing. Either that the majority of the male population around here are too scared to follow through with their pervy plans, in which case maybe I am being to over protective of myself.

It doesn't work with girls, though, I'm afraid. My boyfriend just being with me...that doesn't stop stupid slutty girls from trying to give him their number or get him to buy them drinks or go to their parties. And I swear, if more of these girls were more of my size and had longer hair, I'd go Mysty on them. I'm not intimidating looking enough when it comes to that.....but then again, often times, we overlook girls and just slap the "pervert" label on men only. Let's face it. A LOT of girls are skanks who don't care if a guy has a girlfriend, just like a lot of guys are pigs who don't care if a girl has a boyfriend.

[AriRashkae]

That's when you let slip lines like:

"Honey, don't forget, I need a new cattle prod since I burned out the last one."

Or better yet, you hit on her. (May backfire. )

[McGoddess09]

I've been getting catcalls,whistles, and the whole sha-bang since I was eleven. I've always looked older than my real age, so it's not like the guys knew about my age.

When I was twelve, I was riding my bike and a car stopped and said "Hey baby! How are you?"

"I'm twelve!"

They drove off faster than anything.

At my first job,bussing at the age of fourteen, I had elderly guys hitting on me. At my second job, at fifteen and sixteen at an ice cream stand, I got hit on so much, that my friend Tattoo would show up and claimed to be my boyfriend. Scary guy. Or one of my two guy coworkers (we had more girls than guys) would put an arm around me or crack their knuckles.

Now, at my current job, I still get hit on, even though I'm in my too big for me uniform. I once had a guy open the door for me. I said thank you and he said "No problem, pretty lady."

I was wearing my uniform. Ew.

My current SO and my exes all have told me that they get jealous stares when I'm around them in public or they even have guys come up to them and say "You lucky S.O.B."

I really don't get it.