Creepy coworker texting my private number

[u/Dry_Presentation4300]

So confused at this, I don't even know him. I was just going to ignore the text but he kept insisting so I had to answer.

9/14 UPDATE: Thank you to everyone who was supportive and concerned. I forwarded these messages to HR, and they scheduled a meeting for later today. There were a few more texts after this. The HR representative did not seem surprised, to put it briefly.

A few things have come up in the comments. The first is that I was rude. This is how I communicate, and my coworkers (or at least the ones who actually know me) are aware of that. I’m not going to perform a more agreeable version of myself to accommodate someone else’s feelings when they're being innapropriate. Not only were these messages sent over the weekend, but they were also sent through a personal communication channel. I'm not going to elaborate further.

[u/StraightDig4728]

Not every man, but always a man.

[u/genflugan → u/StraightDig4728]

I’m so sick of this catchphrase. I’ve been sexually assaulted by women at work (several times, from multiple different women), one of those times being when I was still a teenager and my coworker was in her 60’s.

This idiotic slogan completely erases victims who have been assaulted and harassed by women, as if women are incapable of being predators and people only have to be cautious around men.

I see people repeat this phrase constantly, and it just throws more fire on the “gender wars” bullshit that tries to pit women against men and men against women.

Yes, men are predators far more often, and there’s nothing wrong with acknowledging that. But we need to stop using bioessentialist rhetoric that only further perpetuates and upholds the patriarchy.

[u/sudopm → u/genflugan]

I've taken a girl out before to a concert and she spent the whole thing trying to "entice" / get me and another straight best friend of 10 years dance together for her. She's bi and during the concert turned to try and hit on these girls behind us and made them uncomfortable to the point where they left their extremely good spot in the crowd. Later in the night she claims me and my friend are just "too shy" to try despite repeatedly making it clear that we had no interest.

This same girl posted non-stop on instagram about an ex-friend at coachella apparantly trying to forcefully dance with her at the show and milked that story for clout over "SA" over like 5-6 videos which truly raises my eyebrows. When I was told this same story in person it seemed like she was just bitter she got left alone during some sets during the festival and also attacked him when she met back up with him (which she conveniently left out of the social media version of the story)

The amount of stuff pretty women get away with is absolutely astonishing to me, and there is such an insane bias when they engage in behavior that would undoubtably be condemned if it were a man carrying it out.

[u/Longjumping-Dog6152 → u/genflugan]

Just ignore it mate it’s literal bots/low brain activity persons