Certain men give women the creeps

Are you one of them?

Certain men give women the creeps. Are you one of them? Women, have a code. And when they are out at a party, or if they are going to a new workplace, they will report to each other what other women can expect from the Creepy Guy. And those women share it with other women, and those women share it with other women and on and on.

This is how women try to protect each other from the constant sexual harassment they routinely face. Sometimes the sexual harassment is physical in nature but oftentimes, it’s just a feeling.

What is it that men do, exactly, that creeps us out?

Often, there’s a leering quality, a creepy look in the eyes.

This is also accompanied by a scan that is palpable. He starts at our head and scans down our bodies, as if sizing up if we are “worthy.”

There’s a touch on the back and then his hand slides down to our buttocks.

Sometimes there’s a squeeze. Or there’s the tight quarters of the coffee room, where the man enters just as we stand at the coffee pot so he can sidle up behind us and see how we react to the unwanted feeling that he is subtly pressing his privates against us.