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- Dec 17, 2019
Speaking as a woman, you make a scene and draw a crowd. He looks so deranged and terrifying that it’s literally too dangerous to tell him off.
This is the Lucas Werner effect. Women he leers at often smile and look away. That’s a survival instinct.
Unstable men are dangerous and women have learned that men will kill us for rejecting them. So we have to either create a crowd and make a scene or try to pretend things are okay and then book it.
Russell is far more unattractive and is only 5’5” (I guess?) so since I’m taller than him I’d be more likely to create a scene and assume that would deter him from assaulting me. Lucas is bigger and his eyes are completely psychopathic looking. He never blinks and tends to have weird jaw movements so I’d probably just smile uncomfortably and move on as I feel he is more of a direct physical threat and given what I know about him. I’m not sure why I wouldn’t create a commotion with him but I guess he seems less imminently terrifying. Russell comes across as completely unpredictable and I’d want witnesses.
I’m interested in other lady-kiwis responses.
Middle aged here: I'd go off HAM on the greasy gourd. But I've had years now dealing with a lot of different "individuals" (I.E. tards, freaks, weirdos, felons, druggies, mentally ill). Anyone with classroom experience at the secondary level should have a story or two under their belts to back this up. Either a kid says something creepy to you and you have to "rattle" him back to reality, or kid says/acts creepy to a female classmate and again, you have to "rattle" the fucker. You have to. Otherwise they won't stop.
But I feel for the teens and young ladies (one of the reasons I follow this freak). For young people, one of their first jobs is a customer facing job. Either retail or restaurant. And GODDAMN, do the creeps like Russel Greer take advantage and weaponize that unspoken social code of being nice to customers. And most employers DO NOT back their employees up. I was surprised to read about the woman Greer harassed when he interned for the Attorney General. Someone said her boss actually had to go to his floor, get his boss, and tell him to keep Greer on his own floor. Yeesh!
And that is what women and young girls go through. Day in, day out, ad nauseum. But there is a light: Ya hit your forties. Suddenly things start smoothing out, so to speak. Of course you are starting to show your age, but that's a good thing because now you can conduct your business in relative peace. It's such a blessing--especially if you are married--because you can focus on life, enjoy your spouse and/or kids, and just...be.
But I would absolutely ruin Greer's day. Loud and proud. The inept little fucker would leave a snail trail of slime as he slinks back among the clothes racks at the local Meijer if I saw him bothering someone who didn't want it.