LPT: If you're a female, don't be afraid to stand up for yourself

I have this friend who is an attractive girl, and she's a nice girl. She's just not very outspoken. So when someone is hitting on her, she just lets it slide. She's told me before that she doesn't like it when guys hit on her, but she won't ever tell them no. <br><br>Recently she was at a bar with some friends, and this older guy was hitting on her and getting creepily close to her. One of her friends (a guy) was trying to get her attention to tell the guy to stop. He kept trying to get her phone number. She was giving her friend these looks, and finally he got up and walked over to the guy, and told him she wasn't interested. <br><br>Later that night, the girl comes up to me and says thank you. I'm like what are you talking about? She says she finally felt comfortable enough to stand up for herself and tell the guy no. I asked her how, and she said that the guy who told the other guy to leave her alone had helped her with the words to say. <br><br>So she told the guy, point blank, "I'm not interested. Please stop talking to me." And it felt empowering. She said she would've never had the courage to say it if her friend didn't help her out. She said she realized that she had been letting guys treat her like garbage for far too long, and that she would speak up for herself from then on. <br><br>So to all the ladies out there, if you're ever put into a situation like that and don't know what to do, just be brave enough to say that you're not interested, and don't put up with anything else.