Read stories, news articles, blog posts, and tweets about street harassment from the past week and find relevant announcements and upcoming street harassment events.
Street Harassment Stories:
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How Many Women Find Street Harassment Flattering?
In the News, on the Blogs:
* The Telegraph (Calcutta), “High Court prod to stop eve-teasing“
* Racialicious, “Stanley Kubrick, Chopsticks, and Other Ways to Harass an Asian American Girl“
* HR Daily Advisor Compliance Corner, “Street Harassment”
* Thought Catalog, “Grabbing A Man’s Butt Is Sexual Harassment, Too“
* Flurt! Your source for your life, “Cat Calling: Stopping The Social Norm – ft. Experiment“
* Bronxnet Today’s Verdict, “Harassment and Victims Rights”
* No More Ms. Nice Girl, “Don’t call me sweetheart- My experience with street harassment“
* Feministing, “A trans woman found dead in DC: What is causing this increase in violence?“
* Forbes.com, “3 Reasons Why It Pays to Not Let Sexist Comments Slide“
* Unlimited Bravado, “Episode 1: The Fear of Passion!“
* Feministing, “An Innocent Comment“
* More Magazine, “Get Angry. Go Viral. Use Social Media for Change!“
* Women’s Interests, “Some Thoughts On Street Harassment”
Announcements:
New:
* If you are in the Washington, DC-area, participate in a week of street harassment logging, Sept. 26 – Oct. 2! Info.
* The White House launched a 1 is 2 Many anti-sexual violence/harassment campaign
Reminders:
* Call for men to share views/stories about street harassment
* Sign Mend the Gap’s petition to address subway harassment in Delhi, India
* Are you in Egypt? Use HarassMap to report your street harassers
* Have an iPhone? Download the Hollaback iPhone app that lets you report street harassers
15 Tweets from the Week:
1. pedestrienne Impressed Launceston Pizza Pub staff took seriously & promised to immediately act on complaint of #streetharassment coming from patrons.
2. RukayahSarumi Street harassment is not ok, its not flattering, its not funny or endearing. Oft times its scary and leaves women feeling violated #M4CWomen
3. FionaSavage #streetharassment. Should have said something to the car full of guys on Danforth Ave Toronto 2:30 pm today. Woo hoo yelled at us! WTF!!!!
4. DrtyLttlSecret Do I look like Krispy Kreme? RT @IAmDrTiller “Are you hot and ready baby?” fuck you, asshole. #streetharassment @iHollaback
5. noralambert Was going to ask one of the dudes jogging down the street to walk with me for a bit, but it felt Unfeminist, so I stomped on. #harassment
6. Izbella Seriously like there isn’t enough filth in the street #harassment
7. yashar I’m listening 2 Billy Ocean’s “Get out of the street, get into my car” as an adult, its creepy. #streetharassment cc: @iHollaback @hkearl
8. MT @JBDoubleU man at the bus stop heckled, “I like da way you eat dat banana!” I guess potassium is a turn on. #streetharassment
9. unfortunatalie Then a “whit-t-woo” whistle from a lad on a corner & an “evening gorgeous” from a binman. 5 in one street! #streetharassment
10. MediaCupid Oh, kissing noises. That’s original. #streetharassment
11. muteddragon street harassment needs to stop. I get that I’m a girl and Asian. But that isn’t an open invitation to call me baby or point out the “china”
12. ashcampaign: PLS RT @mayoroflondon Hi Boris, @ken4london supports our campaign against street harassment, do you?
13. DyannaLynn Why can’t I walk home in peace? Street harassment is so real out here.
14. chaele_n_ashley No matter what time it is, what a person wears or whatever other bs reasons people give, street harassment is NEVER warranted or deserved
15. gabbybean I’m so damn sick of street harassment. It’s disgusting. I should be able to walk down the street in peace without being whistled at..
16. FinerFeminist Loving Boston! Walking to work today, two people commented on my earrings. Such a nice reprieve from street harassment. Talking to you PHL
17. wunderkind87 “Street harassment seems to be a method of punishing women/girls for daring to leave the house without a male chaperone.” THIS. #DCLiving
18. hpyhpyjoyjoy Giraffe print trench + busy street = sexual harassment
19. SigourneyRae @puella_absurd There was an interesting correlation with higher rates of street sexual harassment when I was blonde.
20. arikia Great album for coping with street harassment: open.spotify.com/album/1c4fH0GP…
