Posted on 10/31/2014 8:19:03 AM PDT by C19fan
A new video about street harassment has gone viral and it proves that . . . how do I put this? It proves that I was right.
The video, released by the nonprofit anti-street-harassment organization Hollaback, features a moderately attractive woman, Shoshana Roberts, wearing jeans and a T-shirt, walking in silence through Manhattan for ten hours. The trek was recorded on a hidden video camera, carried by Roberts’s boyfriend, who walked in front of her. The camera picked up over 100 instances of street harassment in one day, according to the group, ranging in severity from men shouting “good morning,” and “how you doing today?” to men following her for several minutes, walking uncomfortably close.
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Also, it seems that NRO has upped the censorship. Someone commented that the National Review writers have not noticed the obvious socio-racial class of the men catcalling the woman in the video. I tried to respond that after what happened to John Derbyshire and Mark Steyn none dare at NRO state that obvious non-PC truth. Well the moderator kept deleting my comment and I believe the original comment disappeared too.
That is silly. Cats rarely come when you call...
Yet privately, she would bemoan the fact to her girlfriends that she wasn’t attractive enough to warrant the attention in the first place.
You must be a racist!
/sarc
Funny. I used to liken the group of highly educated engineers I managed as “trying to herd cats.”
I work for an engineering orgainzation. I can relate.
Why does Christine hate black and Hispanic men?
Am I to understand that saying “good morning” is harassment?
She would hate the South if that's harassment in her tiny little mind. I have never, not once in my life, walked down a street in the South without a whole lot of people I didn't know greeting me in a friendly manner. I'm male and average looking, so I just took it as people being sociable. I wonder just how arrogantly self-absorbed someone has to be to think “good morning” is sexual harassment. The creepy guy following her for 5 minutes was strange, but greeting people is considered polite in most civilized areas.
**“good morning,” and “how you doing today?”**
How dare they!
At best.
It’s been said that the difference between
“being asked out at work”
and
“sexual harassment”
is whether the woman finds the asker to be attractive or not.
These people need to get a life.
Harassing women on the street is an Italian custom — adopted by Americans.
A good example of how immigration 9in this case from Italy) has “enriched” our culture.
I watched the video and most of the people were merely wishing her a good day. Yes there were some problematic people too, and they were clearly idiots.
There were not 108 instances of harassment.
One of the guys followed her for five minutes as she walked. He walked side by side with her.
So yes there is a problem, and no they are not exactly telling the truth when they sell or describe this video.
I wouldn’t be surprised if the actual number of problematic contacts was more like 20 out of the 108 instances. That being the case, there is a problem. I wish they would address it for what it is.
Lets remember something here. In small towns, many people greet others they meet with kind comments. Those are not examples of harassment. They shouldn’t be in New York either.
Saturday Night Live has used that on many occassions for funny skits. I remember the one where Mel Gibson and Rod Schnieder where OBs and guess which one had the full appointment and which had had none.
Only if you’re black, apparently.
Two comments— First who is this writer to declare that the person who walked the streets for 10 hours is “ a moderately attractive woman”? How does she judge another’s beauty? And isn’t that a form of cat-calling, only in print?
Second, since when is “good morning” a harassing statement?
This is the question the media should be asking itself as it pumps this story. Oh, how sweet to see them hoisted on their own PC petard.
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