kengr

This. Being a t-man, I've had to grow up understanding it because of what my body looks like. It doesn't help that media teaches men that they deserve to have a woman rewarded to them like some kind of achievement. One of the beliefs this leads to is that a man's desire to speak to/interact with a woman trumps her desire to be left alone, making even something that should be so simple a request actively dangerous. You have no idea how he's going to react if you tell him you don't want to talk/are reading/whatever. The number of times that men have insisted on talking to me while I am listening to music with headphones -and- reading at the same time is staggering. Not even wearing a wedding band is sufficient deterrent.