“I Was Known As A Creep For Years”: 30 Men Reveal The Times They Undeservingly Were Called Creepy

Sounds like they were angry because they weren't going up to help the kid. You made them look bad.

My sister kept a closet in her classroom (middle school) that any student in school could come and get what they needed. Not just school supplies, but snack/lunch items, personal hygiene items, female necessities, socks, gloves, etc. I would hit the sales after school started and stock up on anything she had on her list. Even then, she was spending $1k or more every year. The fact that he did this just shows me how dedicated he is.

I would have turned to all of those judgmental people and said, "Why did y'all not offer to help? No reason? Then f**k off."

Never had to use it but the advice I was given as a young woman is if you think someone is following you, drive to the nearest police station.

If you think someone is following you go to a well lit public place or a police station

If you think someone is following you, don't drive randomly around. That's what they want you to do. Drive to the police station. Drive to a brightly lit shopping center. An open gas station. Anywhere where there is people

So was OP also taking "random" turns or was it just coincendental that their random turns corresponded with his way home?

I had the same thing happen to me! The residential area where I grew up was a maze of streets, and this group of teens/young adults just happened to be taking the exact route to where I lived. Then they suddenly pulled over and GLARED at me - until I pulled into the driveway directly across from where they stopped and walked into the house. I can't blame them for being suspicious; it's such a strange coincidence that they tried to ditch the "weird woman following us" by driving directly to my home, using a route that had no less than seven turns.

If she doesn't want people looking at her underwear, she shouldn't wear any!! No... hang on... that's not right...

My Dad lived at home until he was 95 although he was at times unstable when walking. He went out on his driveway to get his paper and fell when he bent over. A nice woman stopped on her way to work and helped him get up. He was embarrassed but told her that he needed to hold on to her leg to stand up. He later called the local hospital where she worked to let them know how kind she was and to commend her.

I had this, with my son, I was out of work when he was born and when my wife's maternity ended I became a SAHD, as she was a nursery teacher she knew all the local play groups for me to take him to, when we went to our very first group I was made to feel the most uncomfortable I had ever been in my life, I was like the personification of every bad male interaction these ladies had ever had or heard of, they all had no issue with talking to my son if he played with their child yet as soon as I spoke to one of their children they were openly told to come away or the mum would come and scoop them up and take them to another activity, then they started whispering and giving dirty looks, here I was just trying to be the best dad I could and I was made to feel like something else entirely, I told my wife about this as soon as she got home and she went ballistic, not the nicest experience ever

A comment like that could bruise the ego, but I understand. Women have been assaulted in elevators. It's scary. I'm sure there are a lot of things that don't scare me as a man that would scare me if I were a woman.

I think most people hate riding the elevator with strangers in general. At least I do. And men and women make me equally uncomfortable. 😂

If you're a man, that's enough. It makes you a creep. This is how judgmental people are.

When you are down, fart heavy and send the elevator to them

Pretty sad that à group of girls would be frightened to ride an elevator with a man.

The US seems so weird sometimes. Creating problems where are none (wasn't there a 6 year-old or so that got in trouble for sexual harassment) while on the other hand ignoring real problems, like gun violence

That is past ridiculous and nowhere near any type of harassment. I hope the sub and other people at school got in trouble and had to go through sexual harassment training.

That is so twisted! You were legitimately trying to make the girl feel better about herself when she obviously needed it and they tried to label you as a predator!

Ah yes, complimenting someone talking down on themselves = Sexual harassment. Schools in general are very sexist to men.

I absolutely love that this teacher went out of their way to try and build this student's confidence. So here's where I'm "that person" lol this is just me, but I don't think that "beauty" should be a measure of self worth. Let me clarify that I didn't find it creepy at all that he said "beautiful." I would have loved this a thousand times more if the teacher had said "you are intelligent, kind, funny, interesting, and a wonderful human being"

As an asexual woman I've been called many things (mostly a "lesbian" or a "s1ut" for some reason🤷), but I can only imagine how much worse it must be for a man.

"Zoals de waard is vertrouwt hij zijn gasten" is a Dutch saying meaning: as the landlord is himself, he trusts his guests. People project their own attractions onto others without thinking on what the other wants and thinks himself. It happens all the time and it is difficult to work with these projections on you when they miss the point completely. Stay strong!

I'm aro ace and had no idea that others like me were being hit with this c**p. Disgusting.

That like assuming if you don't want to buy a diesel truck or an EV, you must want to commit grand theft auto

I’m having a hard time trying to imagine when and how the topic comes up. Do people walk around these days asking others who they’ré attracted to? If they’re doing that, it strikes me as wildly intrusive, and I can’t imagine WHY anyone would ask that unless they’re social buffoons who apparently can’t simply ask “Wanna get a drink sometime?” (If you know the answer, by all means, enlighten me, please!)

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"You're just background like furniture in a chip shop." Great put down. Must remember that one.

"why are you staring at me" "why AREN'T you staring at me!"

Think about it... how often to you remember the furniture in a run of the mill place?

I've had this one happen to me too. Except I was looking past the woman at my kids on the playground. She starts yelling at me to stop staring at her, and it took me maybe a full minute to realize she's yelling at me. I didn't bother defending myself though, I just walked past her and went closer to my kids. This s**t always happens in the suburbs. Don't know whether that's because suburban women are crazy, or it's because city women are just used to getting harassed, so some creep staring at her is too mild to bother with. I hope it's the crazy one, but I fear it's the other one.