Why even explain? Just walk up with a cheery “Hey! How are you?” and it’ll be obvious what is going on and we will shut him out completely.

That’s actually true, though. If you watch shows like “what would you do?”, where they stage situations, you see women move the fucking world for other women harassed by men.

I’ve actually done it.

I’ve been out with friends, seen a guy hitting on a girl who was alone and the look on her face of thinly veiled panic and “get away from me!”

I went over all “OH MY GOSH I HAVENT SEEN YOU IN AAAAAAGESSSSS oh my god, how ARE you??!”
When I went in for the hug, I whispered “need help? Play along” and she met my eyes and then immediately went “OH MY GOSH HIIIIIIIIII!!!”

So I put my arm around her waist and looked at the guy like “you don’t mind, I haven’t seen her in -years-, we’re going to go catch up, bye”

Led her back to my friends, and we kept an eye on her til she was okay.

It’s like total Girl Code.

appropriately-inappropriate

It’s totally a thing, dude, and it’s so good.

Look out for women. Even the ones you don’t know.

Like today on the subway, my seat partner and I heard a young girl go “stop rubbing on me!”

I looked at my seat buddy—an older woman, obviously a mom—, she looked at me, and we both nodded like “I heard that too”.
So I say “got my back?” And she goes “I’ll go momma bear, I got your back”.

The girl got off at the next stop, but this mom and I were just waiting for the creep to give us an excuse.

Honestly, being “your long lost friend from [XYZ]” is the nicest thing you can do for a woman who’s stuck, and no one will ever be hurt by it.