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The Problem With That Catcalling Video (Race Card)
Slate ^ | October 29, 2014 | Hanna Rosin

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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To: greene66
lways assumed it was strictly a boorish northeastern thing, done by scuzzbags.

Born and bred in the Northeast although never spent time in areas with large NAM populations but the incident I described was the only one I ever observed. If this woman walked Manhattan below 125th St she would not get catcalled just white guys giving a second look.

21 posted on 10/30/2014 9:31:23 AM PDT by C19fan
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To: V_TWIN

Ah, yes, a time honored tradition of following her down the street. These guys are white. Nobody got mad at them, and still appreciate their efforts to this day.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=srNqe243y74

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8x2tG4X0cdc

Really, I think the guy who said she should be appreciative tht someone was paying her a compliment had a point.


22 posted on 10/30/2014 9:43:55 AM PDT by smalltownslick
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To: Don Corleone

What the woman is wearing is immaterial. I’ve been catcalled while wearing a thick winter coat that covered me from chin to mid calf, and knee high boots beneath it. I’ve been catcalled dressed up, and dressed down. Some areas of town, you never get catcalled (unless there’s construction going on); other areas, the only women who don’t get catcalled are the young and the elderly.


23 posted on 10/30/2014 9:44:33 AM PDT by Amity
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To: smalltownslick

It’s not really a compliment when it happens to any female walking by in the right age range. Many women see it as some weird male bonding ritual that has nothing to do with them as a person.


24 posted on 10/30/2014 9:48:11 AM PDT by Amity
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To: smalltownslick
“Really, I think the guy who said she should be appreciative that someone was paying her a compliment had a point.”

Yeah, she ain't exactly the next Kate Upton by any stretch.

25 posted on 10/30/2014 9:52:54 AM PDT by V_TWIN
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To: smalltownslick

Roy Orbison............a voice that left us far to soon.


26 posted on 10/30/2014 9:56:08 AM PDT by V_TWIN
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To: C19fan
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.

So what?

Seriously, so what?

27 posted on 10/30/2014 10:02:07 AM PDT by BenLurkin (This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both.)
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To: C19fan

So, why is Hanna Rosin so utterly consumed by the color of their skin instead of the content of their character?

(Rhetorical question only - of course the answer is that leftists are the most race-obsessed group of idiots since the heyday of the KKK or the Third Reich.)


28 posted on 10/30/2014 10:04:35 AM PDT by Zeppo ("Happy Pony is on - and I'm NOT missing Happy Pony")
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To: C19fan

“large NAM populations”

You mean like the Vietnamese boat people in Orange county?


29 posted on 10/30/2014 10:05:25 AM PDT by BenLurkin (This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both.)
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To: Sherman Logan

In the old days, it was only construction workers and only a wolf whistle. Groups of men just were not on the street hanging around because loitering laws were enforced; thus, women were safe on the street.


30 posted on 10/30/2014 10:09:01 AM PDT by donna (Pray for revival.)
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To: V_TWIN

Hollaback
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k5YyvW1Kk7Q


31 posted on 10/30/2014 10:11:01 AM PDT by TurboZamboni (Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.-JFK)
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To: Wiser now
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!

That sounds like the SNL skit with Tom Brady: Sexual Harassment and You

Follow these rules:
1. Be handsome
2. Be attractive
3. Don't be unattractive

32 posted on 10/30/2014 10:15:35 AM PDT by KarlInOhio (The IRS: either criminally irresponsible in backup procedures or criminally responsible of coverup.)
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To: C19fan

If you walk by a dog pen, don’t be surprised if you get barked at.

I can see how she would be insulted. I would think the only type of woman who would respond favorably to that sort of treatment would *tend* to be a woman with rather low expectations. So, it’s as if these guys are saying, “Hi, I think you may have low enough values to tolerate my uncouth jackassery to where you might sleep with me.”

There are ways of “pitching woo” that are less insulting. These guys simply don’t have any skills.

As for the way she’s dressed, she is dressed modestly. Maybe not modestly enough for the Taliban or the Amish, but by most reasonably accepted standards, she’s modestly dressed. She’s not smiling or flirting; she’s just getting where she’s going.

Bottom line: It’s a “gotcha” game where (like I said) she walks past every dog-pen she can find because she *knows* (just like we all should know) that those “dogs” are going to be true to their raising and “bark” at her.

Cue Gomer Pyle: Surprise! Surprise! Surprise!

We could have told her this would happen if she had just laid her cards on the table up front. We could have saved her all the shoe leather!

As far as I’m concerned, this is much ado about a contrived street performance with some unwitting players who can be counted on to take the bait.


33 posted on 10/30/2014 10:18:15 AM PDT by jaydee770
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To: V_TWIN

Notice at the 50 second mark on the video the 5 minute guy has to turn around to comment. The “hired catcaller” is ahead of her so can’t see her or can evaluate her lack of hotness. That right there proves this was all faked. I bet most of those blurred out cast of characters were used over and over in her little show.

She’s far from all that and a bag of chips. Well, looks like she’s had more than her share of bags of chips.


34 posted on 10/30/2014 10:26:17 AM PDT by bgill (CDC site, "we still do not know exactly how people are infected with Ebola")
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To: C19fan

The truth is that white males used to cat-call in the 1950s and 1960s (the cat-calling construction worker was a stereotype, in fact).

But since the war on white men took off in the 1970s, we’ve learned to keep our mouths shut.

P.S. I was never a cat-caller. There is such thing as class, after all.


35 posted on 10/30/2014 10:43:34 AM PDT by Maceman
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To: MrB

Thank you; I didn’t get that.


36 posted on 10/30/2014 10:55:50 AM PDT by dangus
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To: bgill

“her lack of hotness”

Thats for sure, thats for dang sure!


37 posted on 10/30/2014 11:14:29 AM PDT by V_TWIN
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To: C19fan

No good deed goes unpunished. She tried to do the liberal thing, that is, show that men are no good devils. And then liberals end up calling her racist. Serves her right.


38 posted on 10/30/2014 11:41:56 AM PDT by all the best
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To: V_TWIN

wow, this almost makes me afraid to say, “Good Morning” to folks.


39 posted on 10/30/2014 11:45:12 AM PDT by Undecided 2012
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To: Undecided 2012

I wouldn’t worry about it, this chicks’ just an attention Ho out for some free donations.


40 posted on 10/30/2014 11:49:30 AM PDT by V_TWIN
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