DAILY POSITIVE IMPACT – YOUNG BOY CONFRONTS SEXIST EXECUTIVE

“I was on my usual  running path  when I heard an older man yelling loudly  enough for me  to hear  through my headphones.  “Sexy lady,  hey  hey hey sexy lady?” He kept screaming it and I decided to just ignore him and keep running. This ignoring seemed to piss him off so he lashed out and said “eff you, dumb B****!” Now let’s keep in mind he was well-dressed and appeared to be on his lunch break from an office job.

That was my trigger point. The B word. I ripped off my headphones prepared to stand up for myself when this little boy who was walking alongside his mother and little sister in a stroller looked at the guy and said, “Hey. That is not nice to say to her and she didn’t like you yelling at her. You shouldn’t do that because she is a nice girl and I don’t let anyone say mean things to people. She’s a girl like my sister and I will protect her.”

The man was immediately embarrassed and started gathering his lunch to leave. I asked the mother if I could hug the little boy (his name is James) and I told him how grateful I was for him. He just shrugged and said “Well I just wanted to make sure your heart was okay.”

According to his mother, this is a typical day in the life of James. Thank you so much to the mothers and fathers who are raising the next generation to be brave and courageous, and to be little earth angels for all. I am so touched.”

Credit: ©Julia Price

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The focus of my Daily Positive Impact posts is to provide readers with sites that make available resources focused on creating positive impact, and examples of positive daily actions that have been taken that are included to energize readers to take their own actions to make our world a better place. If you are already there, thanks!!

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