dans vos aventures, j’espère qu’ils sont tous sains et saufs et heureux.

Give those insulting cretins no heed. You are a first-class lady wherever you go, as any lovely Frenchman can tell you.

I found this troubling when I first read it a few days ago, and it hasn’t left me since. I’m still quite shocked that people would take it upon themselves fling hurtful, judgmental words at you like this.

In the first case, that man went out of his way to invade your space and seek to humiliate and denigrate you. I do not understand how someone could be so willfully cruel. I do not understand the thought process that led him to think that was the right and proper thing to do.

The second case is even stranger in some respects. Presumably he thought enough of you to ask for the pleasure of your company… and yet he didn’t extend that to any respect for your desires or wishes. Or perhaps he never did have any respect for you, and it was always all about what he wanted. In any case it’s troubling.

I’m very glad that in the final case (where you were followed) there was a nice man that helped you out. That’s one good man and four bad ones… I’m literally rather ashamed for my gender sometimes, and ratios like this are sadly not that unusual.