Posted on 10/30/2014 9:05:26 AM PDT by C19fan
Edited on 10/30/2014 9:31:32 AM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
On Tuesday, Slate and everyone else posted a video of a woman who is harassed more than 100 times by men as she walks around New York City for ten hours. More specifically, it’s a video of a young white woman who is harassed by mostly black and Latino men as she walks around New York City for ten hours. The one dude who turns around and says, “Nice,” is white, but the guys who do the most egregious things—like the one who harangues her, “Somebody’s acknowledging you for being beautiful! You should say thank you more,” or the one who follows her down the street too closely for five whole minutes—are not.
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If women don’t want men to notice them why do they dress the way they do? Do they go into a dress shop and say, “I think I’ll buy this dress or sweater or slacks because its going to make me look unattractive?” I don’t think so. Jus’ sayin’.
The vid that has been pulled from this site twice?
“the one who follows her down the street too closely for five whole minutes”
I’ve gotten a lot of dates that way. /s/
One of the first things I noticed when my neighborhood began to get “vibrant” and “enriched” were the young males, who obviously had no jobs, standing around catcalling and making crude animal noises at women. The woman in the video may indeed have “walked through a white neighborhood,” but she probably didn’t get any examples there for her video.
Yeah, I posted to one thread, and went back later and now it’s gone, what’s up with that?
Rush is talking about this at this very second...
In some five decades, I’ve never catcalled a woman in my life. I have occasionally turned around to catch another glimpse, and a couple of times I’ve walked into a telephone pole.
I also never hear this going one. Maybe because of where I am, or possibly because I don’t notice it.
The author of this piece is offended that the video shows almost only NAMs doing the catcalling. Possibly that’s an artifact of who does most of it? But of course all men get accused of this.
It would also be interesting to do a whole series of these videos. Are black or latina women harassed less by NAMs? Of those men she passes, what percentage catcall her by ethnicity? How much does changing clothing change the response to her?
There’s actually a whole lot of interesting studies that could be done using this method. But I suspect they wouldn’t like the results.
Everybody knows that if an attractive woman walks through seedy urban streets for ten hours, some men will notice and some will make advances.
She's lucky she wasn't jacked up by a real streetwalker.
She had to be walking behind someone with a GoPro camera attached to a backpack or something. It would be interesting to know who that person is.
The only time I heard catcalling was walking around Newark Airport with my sister and her friends (college aged). Several NAMs made comments to them.
OH! A “cat call” center!
Well, maybe she did, and everyone was at work!
So true.
Like the women who get the breast implants, show their great new expensive cleavage, then complain that men speak to their chests rather than look them in the eye.
I think out of her 10 hours of walking she was in lots of neighborhoods. But 1/3 of Manhattan is black and/or Latino and they are overwhelmingly the men who would culturally respond like that.
White collar white guys basically know better.
Women dressed so they don’t look like they’re looking to make a favorable and/or sexy impression are regularly derided on FR for not making that effort.
But there is a difference between wanting to look good and wanting to be harassed, or borderline harassed, by strangers on the street. Undoubtedly, some women enjoy such attention, but many don’t, at least when it is offered in an aggressive or intimidating way.
I’m going to state the absolute truth about today’s young woman. Before I do, I want to make it clear that I am also a woman; my comments are based on my observations.
Like it or not, the way a woman dresses is geared to the reaction she wants. If she is going to a singles bar with her friends hoping to meet someone, she will dress in a way that clearly signals she is available...........to the right man, because she is. She’s not going to admit this to herself as she gets ready for the evening. The problem arises when a man recognizes that signal and decides to see if he is the right man. The woman in turn becomes enraged because the guy didn’t already know he isn’t Mr. Right. How dare mister wrong hit on her out of ignorance!
Women who are out for the evening with their girlfriends and intend to keep it that way dress more modestly, although there is the occasional tease, the married woman who wants to attract attention just for fun.
The woman in this video is available to the right man. She foolishly expects the wrong men to somehow know where they stand without trying.
I don’t think I’ve ever witnessed an actual example of catcalling in my life. Always assumed it was strictly a boorish northeastern thing, done by scuzzbags.
Wolf-whistles, on the other hand, much more common. Usually done in a sort of self-consciously comical way, amongst college-age peers and such.
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