A few years ago, a guy (who looked like he was about my age or younger, so around 20 – with his hood on) sitting next to me on the bus started to put his hand around my shoulder. I told him to stop and I took his hand off me multiple times (of course, no one on the bus noticed or reacted).He kept putting it back, even sometimes to try and go further to touch my breast. He never looked at me and never talked. Then he stopped at the same bus stop as me, walked in the same direction, behind me. I didn’t know if he was specifically following me or not, I didn’t look back to check, but after a while I started to run until I arrived home. I was very upset about it and scared (I wasn’t having a great day to begin with) so I told my girlfriends. They said “calm down, it’s not that big of a deal”. And “why didn’t you scream and make a scene ? I would’ve slapped him” (Right. Because it’s so easy to do and there’s absolutely no risk that he’ll hit you back). It left me feeling stupid for being so upset about it, and weak because I didn’t defend myself enough (as a woman you have to learn martial arts apparently, otherwise it’s your fault if a man touches you)
