As far back as a decade ago, it wasn’t unusual to hear about women receiving unsolicited photos of anonymous men’s genitalia. Since it was clearly a ridiculous and creepy thing to do, it was hard to imagine that such behavior would carry on for years after social media started its rise.
However, it seems that times haven’t changed as much as we might have hoped and this behavior is just as prevalent now as it was back in 2010. While it’s perhaps not as shocking to hear about after years of people doing this, that doesn’t make things any less uncomfortable for the unfortunate recipients of these photos.
So it’s not hard to understand why some women would be inclined to fight back against those who spam their genitals everywhere. And one Twitter user found a clever solution that seemed to have her harasser scared.
On August 12, Twitter user @FruityNesa told her followers, “I don’t typically post dms but I was really proud of this one.”
This was the caption to a series of DMs that started with what appeared to be someone seeking humiliation about their penis size.
But whatever the reason behind this message, this woman couldn’t have made it clearer that she wanted no part of this.
Nonetheless, whoever this was proceeded to forge ahead and send a photo anyway.
@FruityNesa cropped out the penis and I have further removed the rest of his crotch. However, this sight of his unzipped jeans and the waistband of his boxers should make it clear what he showed her.
But rather than show her disappointment, the woman instead decided to give this guy a little scare.
And so she pretended to be an official Twitter bot that threatened to dispatch authorities for a violation of an apparently non-existent section of the U.S. Code.
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But of course, her harasser wouldn’t necessarily feel he had time to research that with such an urgent sounding message before him.
So he instead sent “HELP” back like she mischievously led him to believe would help matters.
For this, all he received was a message that made it clear how charming his little stunt wasn’t.
Responses were mixed between applauding her ingenuity and lamenting the fact that so many women still get enough of these lewd photos to make her trick necessary.
As we can see here, another user took the liberty of slightly reworking her “automated message” to make it seem more realistic for future encounters.
Sharp-eyed readers will notice this person both added in a section that clarified the reason for supposedly reporting the harasser’s account to the police and fixed a typo in the “reply HELP for assistance” paragraph.
It’s nice to see people working together.
h/t: Twitter | @FruityNesa
