I did a self-defence course ages ago (recommended by the lovely khalinche) and one of the interesting exercises that they did was that they got us to role play in pairs one of us being creepy to the other so that the other could practice verbally saying **** off (or whatever your choice of words).
One of the most interesting things about it that they highlighted was that it is blindingly obvious when someone is uncomfortable. It was really not hard to pick up that you were making your partner in this exercise uncomfortable. The lesson that they were trying to draw out was that, really, you don't have to worry that the person harrassing you doesn't know that you're uncomfortable. Obviously, not that over the millions of instances of harrassment, that has never once happened but that, really, the percentage play is that the harrasser is fully aware of their impact on you
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Date: 2013-07-05 07:23 am (UTC)One of the most interesting things about it that they highlighted was that it is blindingly obvious when someone is uncomfortable. It was really not hard to pick up that you were making your partner in this exercise uncomfortable. The lesson that they were trying to draw out was that, really, you don't have to worry that the person harrassing you doesn't know that you're uncomfortable. Obviously, not that over the millions of instances of harrassment, that has never once happened but that, really, the percentage play is that the harrasser is fully aware of their impact on you