Okay but after seeing this I started doing it too and itβs amazing how many men Iβve run into bc they expected me to move
Gotta try it
I work (and walk) on a college campus. Iβve lost count of how many men Iβve smacked shoulders with.
Recently, I was standing outside my sonβs classroom waiting to talk to his teacher. I stood on one side of the hallway, not even close to the center. At some point, a man came walking along. I was standing right in his path, but the hallway was empty, so I logically expected him to swerve around me. Instead he kept walking right toward me, got to me, and stopped, as if waiting for me to get out of his way. I didnβt; I just smiled politely at him. He finally walked around me, clearly annoyed that I hadnβt leapt out of his manly path.
Now Iβm wishing Iβd leapt aside, taken off my jacket and laid it on the floor before him, then bowed deeply and said, βMy Liege!β
I also work at a college campus. I smack shoulders sometimes, but I find that if I stare straight ahead and follow the advice below, people get the heck out of the way.
Honestly this post changed how I carry myself when walking alone in public, or in a situation where Iβm the one leading. People definitely move for the murder gaze.
Confirmed. I once had to rush back inside a convention hall as the con was closing in order to a retrieve a sick friendβs medication, and I didnβt understand why people in the crowd were jumping out of my way (literallyβone guy vaulted a table) until I realized I was dressed as the Winter Soldier and doing the Murder Walk because thatβs just how I walk in those boots. I got the meds, got out, and made a mental note.
I repeated the experiment later, wearing the boots but otherwise my usual clothing and mimicking the expression I thought Iβd had at that moment. People parted like I was Charlton Heston.
I now wear that style of boots whenever possible. I recently had a man do a double-take as I walked by and ask me, politely, where I had served because I βlooked like a soldier.β Iβm not current or former military. I was wearing a flowy purple peasant top and looked as un-soldierlike as possible.
Moral of the story: wear comfortable shoes, square your shoulders, and walk like youβve been sent to murder Captain America.
WALK LIKE YOUβVE BEEN SENT TO MURDER CAPTAIN AMERICA
I will always reblog this post, because it works!! Even when coming up to a large group of teenage lads, who are taking up the entire pathway and had not moved for adult males let alone anyone else, got the HELL out of the way for the murder walk!!!
Always reblog for the Murder Walk.
Question, will the murder walk work for people under the height of 5β²5β³?
The murder walk does work if youβre under 5'5"! Having resting bitchface and wearing a lot of black helps.
Iβm a small 5'3" and have been called intimidating by multiple people. Iβm actually a marshmallow, but my face and the way I walk and talk say βintimidatingβ somehow
Even just the solid posture and flat expression- something about the,Β βtoo busy for your shit, would gladly sell your kidneysβ aura keeps the drunk creeps on the train from trying to chat
