My experience with inappropriate touching because of the costume I’m wearing has pretty much entirely been women. My costume wasn’t sexual or revealing at all either - people just decided to it looked pleasing to touch and did so without asking. Including one person repeatedly passing behind me to touch my costume at my butt (and I don’t think she was trying to sexually harass me: she was just really short)
Not saying its representative of the the wider behavior or even equivalent to similar behavior when done by men. Ultimately, I mostly just found it an interesting experience, but never felt threatened by any of the inappropriate behaviors, which makes a huge difference ime.
personal experience
My experience with inappropriate touching because of the costume I’m wearing has pretty much entirely been women. My costume wasn’t sexual or revealing at all either - people just decided to it looked pleasing to touch and did so without asking. Including one person repeatedly passing behind me to touch my costume at my butt (and I don’t think she was trying to sexually harass me: she was just really short)
Not saying its representative of the the wider behavior or even equivalent to similar behavior when done by men. Ultimately, I mostly just found it an interesting experience, but never felt threatened by any of the inappropriate behaviors, which makes a huge difference ime.