u/Icy-Blackberry7966

Hi all! I’m a student journalist. I’m currently working on a piece about UK urbex culture and I’m looking to speak with a few urban explorers who’d be open to a short interview about their experiences, motivations, ethics, and views on the scene.

I want to stress that I’ll be completely sensitive around anonymity, locations, and identities. I’m not interested in exposing spots or individuals without their consent. Any identifying details/locations can be kept entirely off the record or anonymised if preferred.

Interviews can be done over Reddit DM, Discord, email, Zoom, a text chat, whatever format is most comfortable for you!

If you’d be interested, please leave a comment or drop me a dm! Thank you. :)

does anybody else experience this ??? there’s an older heterosexual male in one of my classes (like, just over a decade older than me) and he seems to think the way he speaks to me is a compliment (it very much is not)

we were discussing secondary school extracurricular activity and i made some comment about how the one thing i didn’t do was run for head girl. he proceeds to ask if i should have in the first place

i raise my eyebrow and i’m like ??? well probably not, i wouldn’t have enjoyed it …. hence why i didn’t

he goes “no, i mean, it’s just that you don’t really represent the average woman”

?????????????

i give him a look and he proceeds to go on some tangent about how my presentation, my interests etc are “atypical“ and “not what you’d expect“ but that “he means it in a good way”

i found it rather irritating as my style has so little to do with this ? i have so much in common with my fellow women. i find that so many men have such a generalised view of women that them being queer or alternative makes them a totally different species !!!

i’m not necessarily super masculine either, I just have a shoulder length mullet/wolf cut and favour jorts and a t shirt 😭