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Check out this video for statistics on street harassment.
http://1drv.ms/1F8Y92H
video made by me! sources used: http://www.gallup.com/poll/155402/women-feel-less-safe-men-developed-countries.aspx
http://www.stopstreetharassment.org/resources/statistics/
http://www.stopstreetharassment.org/our-work/nationalstudy/
http://www.stopstreetharassment.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/2014-National-SSH-Street-Harassment-Report.pdf (If youâre using Mozilla, download the report before viewing it⊠There seem to be browser issues and some text is missing if you view it directly in the Mozilla browser)
https://letterstoourbrothers.wordpress.com/2014/03/27/street-harassment-statistics-what-the-studies-say/
http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Oxygen%2FMarkle+Pulse+Poll+Finds%3A+Harassment+of+Women+on+the+Street+IsâŠ-a062870396
http://manhattanbp.nyc.gov/html/home/home.shtml/uploads/HIDDEN%20IN%20PLAIN%20SIGHT.pdf
The next time someone says catcalling is harmless, show them this storyÂ
In the latest example of street harassment turned violent, a San Francisco man was nearly murdered after telling a man to stop harassing, or catcalling, his girlfriend. Local man Ben Schwartz was stabbed at least nine times, almost to death, by the currently-unidentified stranger.
"At first we tried to just ignore it, just kind of walk away and make our way home, cross the street and try to take a different path," Schwartz told ABC 7. But when the unidentified man kept following the couple, Schwartz prepared himself for a confrontation. "It turned violent very quickly, punches thrown," he said. "Next thing I know, I kinda had a knife in the back of my neck."
To raise money for his medical bills, a GoFundMe campaign page has been created.
I think itâs safe to assume that a vast majority of people donât leave their house in the morning looking for a conversation with a stranger on the street. Men assume this about other men. I have NEVER heard a man I know say something like, âThis dude on the street complimented my jeans.â Probably because, even if someone liked said jeans, they know better than to bother someone who is trying to go about their lives. The same respect and indeed, dignity, is not afforded to women. Women, it seems, are expected to receive engagement from strangers without question. Unless thereâs something circumstantial that creates cause for polite conversation (the loose shoelace, for instance), thereâs no reason to assume a woman would like to be spoken to, especially when itâs clear such interaction is sexually motivated.
6 Things You Might Not Think Are Harassment But Definitely Are (Because Apparently We Need To Clear A Few Things Up) | Bustle (via brutereason)
TW for sexual harassment, violence against women
This Feminist Hotline Replies To Your âUnwanted Suitorsâ With A bell hooks Quote
âThe experience is all-too familiar for many women. An overly aggressive suitor asks for your number. You feel uncomfortable or unsafe, manipulated or just want to end the interaction. Sometimes, it feels easier to hand over your digits than to reject the person outright; but you donât want to field unwanted text messages or phone calls.
Been there? Over it? Go ahead and memorize this number: (669) 221-6251.
Thatâs the hotline for the new Feminist Phone Intervention, which automatically replies to calls or text messages from unwelcome admirers with an automatically-generated quote by renowned feminist writer, theorist and professor, bell hooks.
As the anonymous saviors behind the hotline write on Tumblr, âWhy give any old fake number, when you can have bell hooks screen your calls?â
Next time an âadmirerâ calls or texts, bell hooks will reply with a quote like:
For women deflecting pushy guys at the bar, the hotline âprotect[s] your privacy while dropping some feminist knowledge.â And its creators acknowledge that unwanted sexual advances sometimes move from irritating to dangerous. They cite, âbecause weâre raised to know that evasion or rejection can be met with violenceâ and âbecause women are still threatened and punished for rejecting advances,â as grim realities necessitating measures of protection, however small.
Recently, the fear and intimidation that women experience when they encounter unwanted sexual advances was well documented by the #YesAllWomen Twitter trend. The powerful movement inspired a Tumblr site, When Women Refuse, which chronicles the chilling acts of violence against women who rejected unwanted sexual advances.
The makers of the hotline ask that supporters consider donating to the initiative and note that all funds raised that exceed the phone bill cost will be donated to the The National Latina Institute for Reproductive Health.â
Read the full piece here
"The point is, if you are a guy defending your right to verbally harass women, it might be a good idea to explore why you feel the need to share every single thought or musing you have about a womanâs appearance. What makes you so entitled you believe you have the right to share that information out loud, in public, with her and everyone else around?Â
Constantly receiving comments about our bodies doesnât just make us feel scrutinized, it makes us feel objectified. Internalizing that male gaze doesnât âboost womenâs confidence,â as Santagati suggested. Research actually shows it âincreases body shame, disrupts attention and negatively predicts well-being.â
What makes you think that we want your validation anyway? What makes you think that we actually give a fig about what you think of our bodies? Has it ever occurred to you that we already know we are beautiful, or that we donât actually care? Many men have never thought about that. Itâs too scary. For many men, thereâs still nothing more threatening than a woman who doesnât require male validation.â
From What Men Should Ask Themselves Instead of Wondering Why Women Donât Like Catcalling
By Rachel Vogus
Hey there, sister,
When I was eight years old I started going through puberty. Maybe it started for you years later, but maybe you were like me anywayânot ready to go from being another dirt-smudged-face, rough and tumble kid to being clearly a girl or, even worse, a...
Brilliant Tumblr shows women get catcalled no matter what theyâre wearingÂ
Besides the fact that a womenâs appearance is never a justification for street harassment, itâs almost a moot point since women can get catcalled no matter what theyâre wearing.Â
To prove it, Kati Heng started a tumblr to document what girls are wearing when theyâre catcalled, and some of the outfits might surprise you. Titled âBut What Was She Wearing: Stop the Cat Call,â the tumblr compiles and publishes photos and descriptions of what women were wearing along with their story of street harassment.Â
so iâm walking home, and when i look over my shoulder i notice this guy skulking close behind and staring at me. i speed up, and he jogs up to me and goes âfuck you bitch, what dâyou think iâm going to do?â so i dial 911 on my phone and hold it in front of his face, and he mutters âparanoid bitchâ as he walks off.
idk dude, if your response to a womanâs visible discomfort is to swear and call her names, maybe sheâs not exhibiting paranoia so much as reasonable fear. just throwing that out there.
Saw this on DC Metro today #StopStreetHarassment
Let me tell you a story
Two days ago, walking home at 8pm with my friends, i had a glass bottle thrown at my head through a car window that drove past, as they yelled and catcalled us. It missed, by a few meters. We could have been blinded by flying glass shards.
Yesterday, a friend I thought I could trust stayed over at my place. He got drunk and put his hand on my ass, under my pants, and tried to come into the bathroom while I was showering after I refused his request to let him see me naked. Luckily, I had locked the door. He pounded on the door and yelled at me, saying that âI let everyone else see me nakedâ. The next morning he told me how much he hates all feminists, because 'not all guysâ. For some reason i let him convince me to kiss him.Â
Today, I was told by a man at the busstop that a second man, standing near us, had already tried to solicit sex from an underage girl and had said he would target me next. 'I think heâs going to follow you. Please, run away.â I brushed it off as nothing until my friend started talking about reporting to the police.Â
 Itâs supposed to be national womenâs day today and all i can feel is unsafe, brainwashed, and silenced. Iâve been lucky so far, but Iâm scared that next time I wont be.Â
This is wrong. It needs to stop. Please.Â
I just saw a post about how the Netherlands was passing a law trying to make catcalling and "hitting on" women illegal. I mean I understand the point, but it seems a little ridiculous to me. I mean sometimes I hit on girls, and if they immediately show no interest I back off. I'm completely respectful and non-creepy. But making that illegal? That just seems really drastic to me.
Okay, that seems drastic to you.Â
It doesnât seem drastic to me.Â
As someone who has been followed by a group of three men twice my size down a dark road when I didnât respond how they wanted to their invitation to suck their dicks.Â
As someone who routinely gets called a stuck up bitch for not responding to any kind of comments on the street at all. As someone who once had an empty honeybear thrown at her head in a coffee shop for not showing a male customer enough respect.Â
As someone who has read countless stories and heard accounts from people I actually know about how âcatcallingâ went from a misplaced compliment to threats or actual violence.Â
Good for you that it seems ridiculous. Those laws arenât meant for you.Â
And no, this response isnât soft and cuddly. Itâs awful presumptuous of you to assume that just because you arenât an active menace to women that everyone acts the same way. Itâs also incredibly narcissistic to assume that your opinion on the matter somehow trumps the safety and well being of women everywhere.
Go back and re-read the message you just sent us. Because YOU donât personally act this way this law meant to protect women from something YOU DONâT DO is somehow ridiculous.Â
Youâre ridiculous.Â
Listen to the experiences of women goddamnit. Women are telling you, telling the world, telling law makers that we donât feel safe on the fucking streets. That we canât walk to our goddamn cars after work or get from point A to point B unescorted without being threatened with rape, murder or a combination of both. That âcatcallingâ and âhitting onâ women on the street is much less about compliments and trying to strike up conversations with strangers and much, much more about men feeling they have a right to comment on women as they pass. And more than that, that those women in someway OWE them a response.Â
Fuck that.Â
Hell yes The Netherlands are passing laws to protect their citizens. I wish other countries would take note.Â
-DaniÂ
Hello! Obviously I'm a guy, so I've never had to deal with stuff like cat calling, which, for clarification, I don't partake in. But as a woman, do you think catcalling in general is bad, or does it depend on what's said? For example, if someone gives what society would see as an "appropriate" compliment, such as, "you look lovely", or beautiful, etc. Compared to something vile, or a whistle, etc. as a woman, do you believe there's any differentiation between the two?
Catcalling is not complimenting. If youâre complimenting someone, youâre complimenting them. Catcalling is catcalling depending on certain factors: what is said, how itâs said, who says it and to whom, the location and time of the comment, if itâs said in a way that invites response, how they react to not getting the response they want, etc. I donât know anyone who would consider a stranger walking up and standing face to face with a woman and telling her she looks lovely as catcalling (not to say that itâs always okay and that weâre obligated to respond positively to that interaction), but yelling the same phrase out a car window or repeating it over and over while demanding attention and a response would fall under that category. Make sense?
Compliments are about bringing attention to a good feature in somebody to make them feel good. Catcalling is about bringing attention to the fact that a man benefits from a woman's existence. The point of catcalling isn't to make women feel good, it's to make women know that the women are making the men happy. Which is not a compliment when coming from a stranger because they know nothing about the woman except how she looks, so it can ONLY be objectification.
Much better.
Especially âThe point of catcalling isnât to make women feel good, itâs to make women know that the women are making the men happy.â
Women: We don't like getting catcalled
Men: Yes you do
Letâs start with the underlying motivation to tell a woman sheâs pretty. Yes, you want to pay this stranger a compliment and let her know that sheâs attractive. But hereâs the thing: we live in a society where we are taught that womenâs bodies are for public consumption â to be observed and commented on by all and sundry. You canât go five feet in a supermarket with out running past a dozen magazines that run cover pieces on which (female) celebrity has gained weight, which ones have the best beach bodies, which ones have lost the baby weight and which ones are âjust not looking so goodâ. Itâs taken as a matter of faith â as with Santagatiâs comment earlier â that women want or need the approval of men in order to feel attractive. Thereâs an entire genre of songs of men informing women that theyâre beautiful because clearly she doesnât realize it. Thereâs the âModest Is Hottestâ body-shaming trends in conservative Christianity. Weâre taught over and over again that the world has the right to comment on womenâs bodies and perceived levels of attractiveness.
Men Behaving Badly - Street Harassment And Cat-Calling - Paging Dr. NerdLove (via brutereason)
Oh and hey guys, cheer up. Youâd be prettier if you smiled.Â
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