As she walked the aisles, MR said in an interview, she sensed a man standing close behind her. She turned to confront him and noticed that he was a good six inches taller than her. He was talking in graphic detail about sexual things he wanted to do to her. “You’re so disgusting, get away from me,” she told him, and hurried off to find her friend.
Still, he stayed close, and for a few tense minutes the two of them locked eyes while she waited in line to pay. When at last he left, she thought that was the end of it – until, back outside in the chill of the winter morning, she felt something cold against the back of her leggings.
The man had ejaculated on her.
“I didn’t know how to react. I wanted to kill this man,” said MR, who was 47 at the time, recalling the horror and helplessness she felt as her friend wiped her off with towels. (The Guardian has verified MR’s identity but is not publishing her full name to protect her privacy.)
Hours later, on the advice of a sister who worked in law enforcement, she fished her soiled leggings out of the garbage and took them back to the store to report what had happened. A clerk listened to her account and, not seeming to realize that MR understood Spanish, shouted to a colleague in a backroom: “Tenemos otra.”
“We’ve got another one.”
How… How do you even do that??? Dumbfounded.
do you live in a city?
lots of homeless mentally ill folks bust nuts in public, and assault strangers. pretty common sight.
Which city are you in where this is common?
Boston, NYC, SF, Seattle, seen it all of them and if you follow the news blots it’s frequently reported.
It’s just that homeless folks are doing it and it’s passe. It’s not shocking, except maybe to people new to the city or suburbanites.
Folks masturbating and sexually assaulting others in public is not something mentally healthy people do. It’s a co-morbid with other problems.
But hey, why try to understand human behavior when we can just get outraged about it?
“Which city are you from” “Oh, i don’t live in the city, I just see it sensationalized in the news”
those are cities i’ve lived in that i’ve seen it and had friends be assaulted in.
but keep making shit up if it suits your narrative, i guess? there are stats on it.
These aren’t homeless people committing these crimes.
This story is quite literally about men online that are part of the “gooning” community that encourage each other to sexually assault women in public.
This seems like something separate to gooning.
Why do you say that? The reporters found posts sharing these public assaults in gooning communities, which are not hard to find tbh.
yeah, who are mentally ill, and many only mentally ill communities become hotbeds of egging each other on.
You framed this as homeless mentally ill people doing it which is inaccurate.
No, I didn’t. But please continue to misinterpret me to push your agenda.
I’m glad this story in shocking and horrible, but in my experience it’s just par for the course. Guardian just loves to frame stuff like this as shocking and new, when online spaces full of nutcases are have been around for 20 years. Including spaces for celebrating sexual assault.
Your comment again, since you forgot:
Yeah, that was my comment. As in, this isn’t some random or novel thing.
But hey, don’t let me ruin your narrative that all men are evil and these folks are totally normal well-adjusted folks, or something.
You realize your comments just help their narrative right? “Hey not all men are insufferable pricks like me!” But keep making condescending dickhead comments, I’m sure they’ll come to that conclusion eventually.
Do you make up your comments like a mad lib? It’s the only thing that makes sense since they don’t have anything to do with mine, yours or the article.
It’s not an agenda when we’re talking about a specific article here.
These men aren’t homeless and mentally ill folks just busting a nut in public, this is coordinated and shared and encouraged in these “gooning” communities of men.