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“What’s a pretty little girl like you doing in a wheelchair?”

In Stories, street harassment | on 11.15.10 | by Contributor | Comments ( 1 )

I was recently in a burn accident and my leg is in bandages.

My parents were helping me into our van outside the hospital when this older man walked by and said, “What’s a pretty little girl like you doing in a wheelchair?” and he winked at me before he went inside the hospital.

It was just really creepy.

Like my leg is any of his business.

Or just that he called me a “pretty little girl”… yeah, I really like to be referred to as a child and demoted to someone who’s incapable, yknow?

- BMH

Location: 801 Broadway N, Fargo, ND 58122

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11.15.10

Thank you for sharing your story. I’m sorry this happened to you. In addition to the reasons you state for why this is upsetting, I find it ridiculous for him to suggest that “pretty” people can only be able-bodied and that having a disability and being pretty are incompatible. And to say those harmful assumptions to a stranger! AAHH!

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