Michael Medved was discussing this article on Thursday's 2nd hour of his show. The author would not come on his show so he had on a radio producer from his home station's sister station. Tina, I believe, something or other. She said to the affect that a woman should be able to walk down the street naked with a sign on her that said come rape me and men should take no notice.
Anyway, here are the clips from Michael's show if you would like to listen later. This particular hour, the second hour from Thursday, October 5, should be up later today.
http://www.townhall.com/talkradio/Show.aspx?RadioShowID=4
Also, here is the Holla Back main website that is referred to in the Seattle article if you would like to take a peek:
http://hollabacknyc.blogspot.com/2005/10/street-harassment-failure-of-law-to.html
Their main page states:
Holla Back NYC empowers New Yorkers to Holla Back at street harassers. Whether you're commuting, lunching, partying, dancing, walking, chilling, drinking, or sunning, you have the right to feel safe, confident, and sexy, without being the object of some turd's fantasy. So stop walkin' on and Holla Back: Send us pics of street harassers!
Personally, I know men can be aggressive. I've experienced it--more when I was younger and thinner, but even on a bus when I was VERY pregnant with my first son and once when I was in a cafeteria when I was not so thin. That being said, I think women in general are partially responsible for the in your face aggression we are seeing from men. I think the Florida Spring Break, MTV, Girls Gone Wild, porn culture we live in is bringing more of this bad side out.
Anyway, the woman on Medved today really didn't think women had any responsibility in this at all.
Michael Medved ping. Anyone want on or off this Medved ping list, please send me an FR mail.
Like we can help it? I try not to look, but it's impossible.
If you can do whatever you want with your womb then I can do whatever I want with my eyes. I'm pro-choice when it comes to leering.
The way it is right now, it like an illegal download from the net. Those are property rights you're stealing from a well endowed woman.
Of course if that encourages women to take better care of themselves then all men will benefit.
BUMP
We're men.
(this thread needs eye candy)
The difference between flirting and harassment is how good looking the man was.
I, being homely, hideous and grotesque, take great pains to avoid looking at women in this PC world of getting canned for any infraction of the sort.
No great loss for me or them, according to this article.
Anything I might say about this ...cough...author's article would not be fit for publication. Maybe I can write it on a restroom wall somewhere.
Thats the way God made us. We call it biology. We can't help but look at each other, men and women.
I do enjoy looking at, well . . . healthy girls. Even very healthy girls. Even very, very healthy girls.
I can even tell my wife, "My, my. Now there goes a healthy girl."
The writer in question seems to frequent places where discreet is unknown. It isn't nice or polite to make women feel uncomfortable, but I guess some personality, or big city, types might enjoy doing so. The action she is talking about is not easy to do. One would have to be pretty blatant about the leering and ogling, so blatant in fact that you would have to be observed by the subject of the ogling.
This means you would have to be in front of her and within approximately 20 degrees either side, and do something that would catch her eye, (noises are not allowed) and then mentally undress her while you have her eye. Nearly impossible I say. IOW it is all in HER mind. She is either a dreamer, a journalist, a militant fem with an agenda, or a total dunce.
How to take back the streets from the leering creeps?
Vote them out of office?
One word = Burka
Do we really want to go there?
It's open season on masculinity and femininity. It's open season on virtue and reason. It's open season on modesty and humility.
Please tell your boobs to stop staring at my eyes.
1) Get me indoors.
Its this guy that concerns me, not the bitter man-hating shrew that wrote the article, she's a dime a dozen. I'd lay money she turns around and views the "Girls Night Out with the Chippendales" as empowerment.
But this "guy"... Wow. Buddy, is the approval you get from women that pity you for your gender really worth selling yourself out like that?
"I for one welcome our new feminist overlords"