Why We Smile at Men Who Sexually Harass Us

Hanna Brooks Olsen
11 min readFeb 23, 2016

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“Why do you always engage them? If you didn’t engage them, they wouldn’t keep talking to you.”

It is nighttime and it is bitterly cold and I’m at a bus stop with my then-boyfriend. We’ve just left a performance of some sort and are trying to get home but our evening has been interrupted and it is, apparently, my fault.

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Hanna Brooks Olsen

I wrote that one thing you didn’t really agree with.