This post, which I got via Amber’s excellent blog, is spot on.
I’ve noticed since I got my mohawk, in fact maybe since I cut off my hair, progressively shorter and shorter, and started wearing it less and less femininely, that men have left me alone a lot more. I still tense whenever I walk by a man or group of men alone in the street late at night. I’m sure that most of them are nice people, but I am consistently surprising guys I know when I tell them how intimidating a large cluster of men on a sidewalk can be to a girl alone.
I’m not really an object anymore, so much, and I kind of love it.