Men (I guess spefically of an older generation) Do you still feel like you can approach women or it’s too “taboo” nowadays?
I had a discussion with my friend about this yesterday. We’re both women. She was getting really passionate about society and this and that and men don’t walk up to women anymore because it’s taboo.
She was flipping flopping between that and saying when her mom was younger she remembers men honking at her mom on the streets. “That was ‘normal and appropriate’ and now no one’s does that at all” (thank goodness though right) or even “walks up to a woman for real is what”
Now I wasn’t around in the olden times, but I don’t think there to be any noteworthy decrease or shift in men approaching women and I rarely get approached.
I actually have been honked at in the streets before. She was there but that was Jamaica and it was older men. So she said it’s different and kind of validates her point.
Anyway, I digress what do y’all think as men? Do you feel scared to walk up to women? Is it your own anxiety or do you genuinely feel societal pressure not to?
Edit: I wrote this not too long after I woke up I said older generation but definitely meant millennials and up 😪