87% of American women (18-64) claim to have been harassed on the street by men

[mota bhai 2,675]

by Tessa Miller

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The first time a man harassed me on the street, I was 13. I had just gotten my braces off and was learning how to tame my hair with a curling iron. I could barely fill out a training bra, and I hadn’t even started my period yet. The man, probably in his late 30s, let out a low whistle and told me he “liked the way I walked,” while following me through the mall parking lot.

In the decade since then, I’ve been catcalled more times than I can count. I’ve been called “#######” or told to “go fu*k myself” (for not responding to said catcalls), been followed home by men on foot and in cars, had a man whisper in my ear that he “wanted to make me come,” had a man stare me down while grabbing his genitals, and been called “sl*t,” “c*nt,” “wh*re,” and “b*tch” for doing little else than wearing a summer dress and walking from my home to the train station.

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Another study, published by the Rogers Park Young Women’s Action Team in Chicago in 2003, reported that 60 percent of young women ages 10-19 felt unsafe walking in their neighborhoods. Eighty-six percent of them had been catcalled on the street, and 36 percent said it happened daily.

In a 2000 telephone poll conducted by Penn, Schoen and Berland Associates, 87 percent of American women between the ages of 18-64 said they had been harassed on the street by a male stranger, and 84 percent “considered changing their behavior to avoid street harassment.” Women have learned to operate with a baseline level of fear, one that dips or peaks depending on our surroundings. We’ve learned to change what we wear or where we go or how we behave. The female brain is always observing, always scanning, always ready to fight or flight.

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/04/02/apps-and-online-programs-offer-new-ways-to-report-street-harassment.html

[Harpa Timsah 13,258]

Yep.

I won't say some of things that have been said to me... too embarrassing...

And, just to stir the pot, it's usually immigrants from a certain area of the globe...

Edited April 2, 2014 by Harpa Timsah

[Danno 1,228]

And yet there are probably some women who have thankfully escaped such abuse.

[Harpa Timsah 13,258]

Yeah women, why don't you get prettier so men can harass you on the street! Geez, the nerve of those uggos... right Danno?

Sickening...

[Danno 1,228]

Sickening...

Yeah rosie does that to my stomach too.

[Novembro 1,763]

And, just to stir the pot, it's usually immigrants from a certain area of the globe...

Glad I'm not the only one that notices this.

[Operator 1,927]

Yep.

I won't say some of things that have been said to me... too embarrassing...

And, just to stir the pot, it's usually immigrants from a certain area of the globe...

Glad I'm not the only one that notices this.

Italians?

[The Nature Boy 4,224]

and the other 13% are butt ugly and wish a man would flirt with them

And yet there are probably some women who have thankfully escaped such abuse.

What does Rosie O'Donnell have to do with this ?

[Harpa Timsah 13,258]

Wow, this turns to a women-bashing thread so fast and so repeatedly. Really nice.

What hath you wrought, AJ?

[Novembro 1,763]

and the other 13% are butt ugly and wish a man would flirt with them

B*tches ain't sh*t, amirite?

[Danno 1,228]

Wow, this turns to a women-bashing thread so fast and so repeatedly. Really nice.

What hath you wrought, AJ?

Come on now..... think about the report and ask yourself how much sense the claim even makes.

Harassed- What does that even mean, a whistle or a comment from a car window, someone confronting them on the street?

Street- Most women go from their car to the grocery store or work or the gym (hopefully), It's not even like the majority of women are walking anywhere to be on the street.

If you want respect when you are out and about you will have to go back half a century, we have been liberated from those dark days... rejoice.

Edited April 2, 2014 by Danno

[Harpa Timsah 13,258]

So people go everywhere by car? Livin' in the 'burbs, yo!

"I can't imagine anyone that lives differently from how I live. I know everything, that's why everything I read just reinforces my point of view. Then I post articles in VJ to show everyone how it is. I stop reading anything that differs from what I know because it is wrong."

I don't have a car Danno. Can you believe it?

Edited April 2, 2014 by Harpa Timsah

[Novembro 1,763]

Come on now..... think about the report and ask yourself how much sense the claim even makes.

Harassed- What does that even mean, a whistle or a comment from a car window, someone confronting them on the street?

Street- Most women go from their car to the grocery store or work or the gym (hopefully), It's not even like the majority of women are walking anywhere to be on the street.

If you want respect when you are out and about you will have to go back half a century, we have been liberated from those dark days... rejoice.

I run in my neighborhood. I walk my dogs all over. I like to walk places when I'm in town.

The #### kind of lazy women do you know?

[Operator 1,927]

Someone's wife wanted a watch for her birthday.

Someone told her "you don't need one, there is a clock on the stove".

[Teddy B 17,252]

I think 87% is a pretty good number so far, but damn I'm getting tired. My goal is to hit 95% by the time I'm 60.