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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Most of those interactions are just guys trying to get to know her. A lot of men do this and know that in 1 out of 200 or 300 times, they will meaningfully engage the woman.
If this really bothers her, wait until she finds out the depraved things she will have to do to crusty, disgusting, bisexual men in order to get acting jobs in the big city.
It’s New York and nobody gives a damn about that socialist hell hole
Also funny, I have found that cats are also smarter than some of the “highly educated” engineers I have known and worked with.
“law”, “ordinance”?
If the guy was being a grade A butthole she or any other woman should have decked him...go back to the times of old where a woman or her man could defend their honor from scum like this.
But for me, the larger problem is that the American male has been neutered as a result of laws or fear defending a woman’s honor as a result of laws and feminism.
Women [feminists] wanted to be “liberated”...well they got it and these are the fruits.
There are some problems in life, you simply have to deal with.
First of all, appreciate being complimented. Don’t be such a Scrooge that you get angry even when someone is being nice to you.
The guy that was following her,.., I think she could have looked at him any time and asked him to stop and he would have. He saw the camera, decided to play their game, and went with it.
Who knows how many other people actually gave her elevated attention because they could tell the thing was part of a video?
Perhaps they couldn’t see it. I don’t know. It would have been very hard to keep her on the screen if the camera wasn’t visible.
I wouldn’t support some sort of law to correct for this.
“That is silly. Cats rarely come when you call...”
You are so wrong!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cfhK5HPFkdA
The same men who say there’s nothing wrong with this and the woman has a lot of nerve complaining might be singing a different tune if the woman was their wife or daughter.
To be wanted is a female power. To exercise that power by rebuffing “unwanted” affection...delicious!
A very old con game, this pretending to be offended.
And in Italy, she’d get her butt pinched.
At least to my mind, this is not intended to be friendly at all. It is black/latino on white and/or male on female harassment intended to make the white lady uncomfortable.
At which it seems to work quite well. Any person who isn’t dressing or acting in a way to draw attention to themselves should be able to walk down the street without being singled out and harassed or approached by strangers.
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You refuted your own point. The woman has big boobs and wore a skin tight, very thin shirt and tight pants. So, seemingly according to you, it’s okay for her to be ‘harassed’(which she wasn’t).
And the guys were not harassing her in their minds. They were hoping she, like many girls would today, jump at the chance to hook up with them.
And ‘women shouldn’t be approached by strangers’? How would you suggest a man meet a woman he finds attractive and would like to meet with honorable intentions?
“Besides, this is New York City — since when are people cordial to strangers with no ulterior motive?”
I found this to be a telling sentence. I’m cordial to strangers with no ulterior motive all the time. Of course, it’s different with me being female. I’m generally nice.
An interesting juxtaposition from personal experience: In India, the fact that I smile and say hello (being “nice”) to men (and women) has been perceived as “interest.” Far from it, I’m polite. It’s how I was raised. It’s also the main reason, I was always in the company of a personal driver or the people with whom I was working.
Here the deal..
They keep saying she was not trying to look attractive. .she was wearing no makeup. .
She was just wearing a black tee-shirt and jeans
How stupid are women... that is hot to a heterosexual male.
Heterosexuality males are driven by female body shape..not faces
Women have know the for years.. the old punch line..”hey buddy my eyes are up here!”.. that means he not looking at you face dummy..he looking at your body shape.
They call the old tv shows that had hot women..T&A ..or Jiggle shows.... not face shows
And nothing shows T & A better that a simple Tee shirt and jeans ..truth is dressing and colors distract and hide that shape that men like..
Its that shape.. that curve ...that turns a man on..ever see the mudflap on a truck with that silver female shape... you ever see a man do the female curves shape gesture with his hands?
Im just trying to be truthful.. my favorite female look since i first noticed girls is simple tees and jeans and minimal makeup...usually that also indicates she's also down to earth.
Women if you want to dial a man down.. dress like you normally do which is dressing for other women or dressing in what gay men seem to think is pretty for women.
I do love jeans on a women.. it a straight men thing so you might not understand
Come on. She had ‘junk in the trunk’ in a big way.However, she is by no means gorgeous. She was moderately attractive. I’m not leaving my wife and kids for her, but I might leave yours kind of thing.
Caption: “Is that a head in your pocket, or are you happy to see me?”
Occurs to me: that may actually be the [intended | unintended] consequence. Deride such behavior - _including_ normal polite/friendly/appropriate comments - and that breaks down the barrier to normalizing, then compelling, such attire.
Is the video provided 10 hours long? or is it a careful selection of the most egregious incidents, disingenuously imputing it represents all 100+ incidents?
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