I put a trigger warning on this thread just in case because I describe this situation darkly . I have a huge aversion to people staring at me. I don't like to be touched, looked at, etc., but I put up with it because I know it's normal. I don't know why I'm like this. However, what I can't stand is when people look at me to "check me out." Uhhhhh... I really can't. I don't like to look at others at all, except their faces, so I can't relate to this. I feel very uncomfortable when it comes to peoples' bodies being shown off in a sexualized way. Other than that, I could care less what the other people look like. I view the body in a very non-sexualized way. The worst part for me, however, is that I heard that women "stare" at other women's breasts and such... in order to compare themselves or degrade the other women. It makes me sick to my stomach. I sometimes worry too that the other woman is actually gay (which I have no problem with) and is checking me out because they are attracted to me. Other than that, I just feel like other women have no right to be looking at such "sensitive" areas of me. Why would they care so much how other women look sexually that they'd have to compare? I think one of the reasons I dislike so much when women do this is because they seem to be saying with their eyes, "You are a sex object for males, and I have the right to stare angrily at your body and be angry with you because you might be a more coveted sex object than me." First of all, I don't like sex at all. Second of all, I don't want myself or other women to be seen as only as powerful as how many men they can get the attention of . Women can do so much more than use men...

Is there anyone here who does this? I'd really like to hear the other end of this, especially if I'm blowing it out of proportion .