tj444
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ORIGINAL: smileforme50 You can also say "Sure...if she walks around for TEN hours OF COURSE she's going to hear SOME comments from SOMEBODY. The point wasn't to demonstrate how often it might happen in ten hours, the point of the video was to demonstrate how it happens SO OFTEN that it literally happens EVERY DAY for some women, and it happens so often that it gets VERY annoying and in some cases downright scary. Most men don't realize that even in this day and age a lot of women are still brought up and taught to be wary of strange men. "Don't talk to strangers" "Don't hitchhike or take rides from strangers" "If you meet someone online....meet them in a public place". We have been....and still are....brought up and taught to be aware of the possibility of sexual assault and our vulnerability to such things. For some women, it's a thought they always have in the back of their minds. A lot of women...even today....feel kind of nervous when they find themselves in a situation where they are surrounded by strange men. To be walking down the street and have to walk down a virtual gauntlet of strange men with many or most of them making (direct or indirect) comments about your body and appearance, very often is not taken as a compliment, it is taken as a potential threat. A couple of the guys in the video got a bit upset when she ignored them, and some men don't take being ignored very well....who's to say that any one of those men weren't going to get pissed at her ignoring them and strike out at her in some way? There's also the possibility that if she would have acknowledged any of these men in any way that they would have taken it as an invitation to try to pursue her, and if she isn't interested in pursuing further contact with a stranger on the street, that's her right to do what she can to discourage them from going any further. she has gotten online rape threats as a result of the vid.. she is an actress, her name is in the articles, she could very well be in real danger if any of those men find out where she lives, works, or goes and decide to attack her... 7 million views.. can't tell me that one or more of those couldn't be nutbars that would actually do that.. (or do guys think getting a rape threat is a "compliment"??? ) "The video was posted on YouTube, and Roberts has now received rape threats over social media, CBS2’s Hsu reported." "“What people don’t understand is that as a woman when you walk down the street, you don’t know when ‘hey baby’ or ‘hey sexy’ is going to escalate to something much, much worse,” said Emily May of Hollaback!" http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2014/10/29/video-woman-gets-catcalled-more-than-100-times-in-10-hours-while-walking-in-nyc/ And 1 in 10 women have changed jobs due to this harassment as they commute to and from work.. "For many women it often comes down to a big choice: continue suffering or change jobs. One in 10 women opt for the latter," http://www.forbes.com/2010/07/13/sexual-harassment-women-commuter-forbes-woman-leadership-workplace.html
< Message edited by tj444 -- 11/3/2014 11:49:40 AM >
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