I’m still really livid. The title pretty much says it all, but yeah, while I was walking to the subway around 6:45 pm today, this hideous greasy guy on a bike grabbed my ass and rode away like the coward that he is. I’m 100% positive that he targeted me because I was wearing heels and listening to music.
At first, I thought it was one of my friends playing a joke or something, and I distinctly remember wondering, “Which one of my friends is in the neighborhood?” because it’s such an intimate touch. (Not that my friends and I make a habit of grabbing each other’s asses, but… yeah.) Then I see this guy on a green or blue bike whizzing forward, when I realized what had happened, I ran for like… ten feet before realizing, Oh. I’m wearing heels. I can’t do this. He knew it too, which is why he picked me. Believe me, if I were wearing sneakers, I would’ve run like the wind, knocked him off his bike, and made him sorry.
This is the thing. If you’re going to do something audacious like grab a woman’s ass, OWN IT. You know? I’m not even trying to be funny or anything, but honestly, what is more cowardly than doing something like that and then RIDING AWAY ON A BICYCLE? I started screaming at him, “Fuck you! What the FUCK do you think you’re doing?! You can’t fucking do that! YOU’RE A COWARD!” A man across the street witnessed the whole thing, as did a couple in a car that was about to drive away, and a woman in the house opposite me walked out on her balcony to see what was the commotion. The man asked me if I was okay, as did the couple, and I just started screaming again, “HE’S A COWARD! He’s a FUCKING coward! He thinks he can grab people and then RIDE AWAY ON A BIKE! Would you want someone to do that to your MOTHER or your SISTER?!” They were really sympathetic and agreed with me. I felt sort of vindicated that I managed to at least get people’s attention with my screaming, but… ugh.
I was on my way to meet a friend for dinner in the East Village, and I was thinking about it while on the subway and started crying. Which ordinarily makes me feel weak, but honestly, THAT PIECE OF SHIT VIOLATED ME and treated me like a fucking object put on this earth for his pleasure. What a piece of worthless shit. I’m so angry that I can’t even identify him or his bike since it happened so quickly. All I remember was that he was a 30-ish Hispanic guy on a blue bike.
Also. This is another thing. If you’re a member of a minority group in the U.S. that already is fighting stereotypes like this and hoping to gain respect… WHY WOULD YOU FUCKING DO SOMETHING LIKE THIS? This is the second time in two years that I was assaulted by a 30-ish Hispanic guy while I was wearing headphones. I’m seriously so disgusted.
When I got off the subway at my destination, I called my sister to tell her what happened and started crying hysterically as I walked towards the restaurant where I was meeting my friend. This really makes me so angry. The thing that makes me most angry is that THIS PIECE OF SHIT DID THIS IN THE MOST COWARDLY WAY POSSIBLE, targeting a woman in a dress and heels who was listening to music while on a getaway vehicle. At least be an adult and say, “Hi! I’m a predator who grabs women’s asses and can own up to it!”
Ugh, and then my friend who was meeting me for dinner told me how a similar thing had happened to her in the East Village. And in Russia. Dear Men, why do you DO this? Do you not realize that we are people’s mothers and sisters and daughters? Fuck you all.
What a coward. That this guy gets his kicks by grabbing women while on a BICYCLE is just… pitiful. It’s just pitiful.
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