Making Public Spaces Safe and Welcoming
There are cats against catcalls, but now dogs are having their day!
#HoundsAgainstHarassment!
I’ve been harassed with my dogs and they don’t always notice it, but when they have, they haven’t liked it. They would like for us to be able to run together harassment-free.
Do you have a dog who is against harassment?
Send a picture my way! hkearl @stopstreetharassment.org and I’ll share it over social media during International Anti-Street Harassment Week.… which starts tomorrow!!
If I go out alone at night in my neighborhood I get an average of 3-5 “hey baby” type comments per outing. If I go out with my dogs, I get roughly the same number of people, from roughly the same age/gender range asking me friendly questions about them, which is a kind of interaction that I enjoy. Somehow the presence of the dogs, even though they are not at all scary looking, completely changes the way men interact with me on the street from upsetting and sexualized to pleasant and neighborly. I am completely baffled.
-anonymous