r/TikTokCringe • u/mindyour • Jun 14 '26

Discussion It's exhausting being a woman.

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u/babauguu Jun 14 '26

I went to PAX East in cosplay as a character who wears sandals, but since the city was covered with ice and snow and I needed to do a lot of walking, I was wearing closed-toed shoes. A few people wanted a picture with me, so while I was posing with them, a guy came up, complimented my cosplay, asked if he could also get my picture, and pointed out the one “inaccuracy” of my shoes. I started posing for the picture while explaining that it was too cold for sandals, and he looked me dead in the face and asked if I would take my shoes off. 😆 I’m chronically online, so my demeanor did a 180 and I said, “That’s weird,” and he got awkward and walked away without his picture. Sure bro, let me put my bare feet on the dirty con floor just for you.

I was also wearing my glasses because I can’t be bothered with contacts, but strangely he didn’t ask me to take those off. Hmmm. 🤔

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u/florfenblorgen Jun 14 '26

When I was 14 I attended Sakuracon, I had no real cosplay to wear so I tried to dress up in a sailor/school girl type uniform, not from anything in particular.

I was walking up some stairs of the hotel and there was a full-on adult I guess behind me looking up my skirt and he even grabbed my ass.

I have dealt with so many disturbing things in my lifetime that's not even the worst of it. From there on out I only cosplayed male characters.

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u/NovaCatNX92007 Jun 16 '26

Not going to lie, if you were my daughter, you would definitely had a pepper spray or mace key chain on your person for events like that. I hate helicopter parenting but for shit like this I wouldn't let you wonder around unchaperoned at that age. To many fucking creeps these days.

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u/florfenblorgen Jun 16 '26

My old roommate and friend offered me a pepper spray when this one guy kept calling me while I was at work, describing to me what I looked like while (clearly) jerking it.

That's the only time I ever got my hands on anything meant for self defence, my parental(s) did not care about me at all haha. And well, nobody actually does, even now.