He made me feel so terribly defiled

He nearly violated my personal space while oozing micro-aggression and then began aggressively man-spreading

He made me feel so uncomfortable that I had to go to the nearest safe space on my app for several hours

There, even with my marginalized sisters I could not lose the feeling that I had been defiled

I tried controlling my breathing, repeating my mantra, practicing mindfulness and journaling, all to little avail

I prayed his menacing presence would not cause me any permanent damage

But, I kept flashing back on how openly he carried on with his likewise-intimidating friends

And how threatened I felt by his potentially-brutal and certainly toxic masculinity

His large size and aggressive aura remains locked in my mind, degrading me again and again

I’m seeing a counselor twice a week who thinks he might have left me with PTSD

These sort of men should be made to wear some sort of a Trigger Warning to protect our feminine psyche

I keep having these intrusive thoughts related to his horribly negative presence

He almost knocked me down pretending not to threaten me, but I knew he really wanted to

He and his overbearing friends are perfect examples of why the definition of masculinity must change

Though they never said a word to me, their outbursts penetrated deeply into my already-fragile emotional core

I honestly feel profaned and am looking to the government, university or my parents for recompense

I can only hope that some day these barbaric creatures can be forced to go about invisibly...maybe in burkhas