Since Coyote posted their note to men who just don’t understand personal space, 68,000 people have reacted on Facebook and over 24,000 people have shared it.

A 2014 nationally representative study commissioned by Stop Street Harassment found that of the 2,000 people surveyed, 65 percent of all women had experienced street harassment sometime in their life.

“Leave her alone. Let her read her book,” continues Coyote. “Tell your friends.”

Thanks for being an ally, Coyote.

Update: Ivan Coyote told Revelist:

"I wrote this post because while I was walking to the grocery store witnessed a man waving his hands in the face of a young woman who was waiting at a bus stop. She was wearing her headphones and reading a book. Everything about her body language told me she didn't want to talk to him, but as I got closer he just continued to get more and more in her face, and as I walked right up I could tell she was now pretty scared of the guy. By this time an older woman (late 60's, I would guess) had stepped in and told the guy to back down. Her and I both told the guy to back off and leave her alone. He called the old woman the c word and me a fag. I'm not a man, I'm a masculine appearing trans person. I do not identify as a man, nor do I want to be one.



Anyway, the guy gets on the bus but the young woman does not. She doesn't want to be on the bus with him. As soon as the bus pulled away she burst into tears and thanked us both, and said that was the third time that day some guy had bothered her, she thought because she had worn a dress and took a long commute in and out of the city to go to a job interview. She said next time she would wear a flour sack so they would leave her alone.This really struck me. I was never a very pretty girl but I remember my own incidents of street harassment when I was young, and I often get called names or hassled now for being/looking queer and/or trans but that is different.It made me really sad and angry that a woman couldn't put on a dress and take public transit without knowing that she would receive a barrage of uninvited attention, even if she sent multiple signals to be left alone."