Honestly, I don't care how old you are, y'all need to stop.
Imagine this: it's Thursday night which means you're out with the girls dancing and singing to every song that comes on. One of your best friends is leading you on to the dancefloor to dance to y'all's song and before you even realize what's happening, you feel your whole body jerk around as your arm is ripped backward behind you.
There stands a 40-year-old man looking down at you, your wrist tightly gripped in his hand and twisted to the side, and he says to you, "I have this dance."
Your initial reaction may be to go ahead and give him what he wants, talk your way out of it, or even throw a punch. But who are you kidding? He would put you on the floor with one hit. So that option is out. You're now 8 seconds into this interaction and your body is tense. The music you were so eager to dance to is now drowned out by a silent scream in your head and you want nothing more than to run away.
Odds are, you know this situation all too well. You probably weren't even drunk, or drinking at all for that matter, but you were scared. You were terrified that your twig of an arm was about to snap in half under his grip. The only thing you could think to do is say "next song!" in hopes that he would let go.
When he finally did, you went back to dancing with your friend and gave her the details of what happened. As the song came to an end, you made a run for it.
You did everything in your power to avoid the man, which at some point, included hiding in the bathroom in hopes that his monkey brain would jump to something else and forget that he was after you to begin with. Your friend stands between you and the person who had you on high alert no matter where you walked for the rest of the night. Sitting at the table she said "he's looking around" and hid you behind her. Not even the friends around you brought you comfort at that point.
No person should have to deliberately go out of their way to avoid a person they've never even met.
No person should be manhandled by absolutely ANYBODY. Ever. Point blank.
No person should be told what is going to happen and how things are going to go.
It's 2018, do we need to send you a letter in the mail for you to understand what the rest of society is doing nowadays? Obviously you've been missing some memos. We can even have it sent by carrier pigeons if that's what needs to happen for y'all to understand what is, and is not, okay.
