Would you "harass" this woman?

• thavoice

  I saw something on the news about this last night I think, about how this woman got 'cat called'/sexually harassed all day on her ten hour walk as an experiment.
  
  
  http://news.yahoo.com/woman-seen-harassed-nyc-streets-video-gets-rape-180905117.html
  
  
  Yeah, she is kinda hot and all, and if she walked by me she would get a second look and all, but to really say stuff to her? Not sure she is that sexy ya know!
• Devils Advocate

  

  Nope, but I woild fuck her right in the *****.
• SportsAndLady

  

  Men greeted her as she walked by poor neighborhoods...she got sooooooo harassed
  
  /sarcasm
• DeyDurkie5

  

  This is one of the worst things I've seen.
• salto

  

  meh' nothing to see here. Our news media needed something different to cover other than ebola.
• sleeper

  

  http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/10/30/walking-in-nyc-as-a-man-funny-or-die_n_6072664.html
  
  Guy does the same thing.
• sleeper

  

  Also the video is so stupid. It's just another non-profit who's raising awareness; also known as creating an issue to give them an undeserved bloated salary for a few years until the fad dies off.
• DeyDurkie5

  

  Not in the sense that she got harassed but in the sense that this dumb bitch actually took the time to put a camera to herself as she walked the streets
• SportsAndLady

  

  sleeper;1669058 wrote:Also the video is so stupid. It's just another non-profit who's raising awareness; also known as creating an issue to give them an undeserved bloated salary for a few years until the fad dies off.

  What in the hell are these donations they're asking for going to go to? How do you stop "vocal harassment" in a city?
• O-Trap

  

  The notion of setting up a non-profit for this is, really, just a way for people to get paid.
  
  To be fair, some of those reactions were disrespectful, but some were just people being polite.
  
  "How are you this morning?"
  
  "Have a nice evening."
  
  "Hello. Good morning."
  
  "How are you doing? Good?"
  
  "God bless you. Have a good day, alright?" (from a guy who then walks alongside her for 5 minutes ... because of course nobody could possibly walk the same route for a five-minute stretch in a big city, right?)
  
  
  Don't get me wrong. Talking to someone as though they're a sex object isn't okay. However, this vilifies far more than that. It vilifies pleasantry and simple friendliness by assuming that those things are motivated by sex, and anyone who applies any critical thinking to the video will notice this, I think.
  
  Potentially a good experiment, but a disingenuous delivery of the results.
• gut

  If she really did that much walking she'd be a little less thick.
• Glory Days

  

  I like how she tried to claim she dressed very plain.........by wearing a skin tight shirt with DDs.
• Laley23

  

  O-Trap;1669077 wrote:The notion of setting up a non-profit for this is, really, just a way for people to get paid.
  
  To be fair, some of those reactions were disrespectful, but some were just people being polite.
  
  "How are you this morning?"
  
  "Have a nice evening."
  
  "Hello. Good morning."
  
  "How are you doing? Good?"
  
  "God bless you. Have a good day, alright?" (from a guy who then walks alongside her for 5 minutes ... because of course nobody could possibly walk the same route for a five-minute stretch in a big city, right?)
  
  
  Don't get me wrong. Talking to someone as though they're a sex object isn't okay. However, this vilifies far more than that. It vilifies pleasantry and simple friendliness by assuming that those things are motivated by sex, and anyone who applies any critical thinking to the video will notice this, I think.
  
  Potentially a good experiment, but a disingenuous delivery of the results.

  The whole thing is stupid.
  
  But, I personally thought every one of the comments carried sexual connotation.
• O-Trap

  

  Glory Days;1669186 wrote:I like how she tried to claim she dressed very plain.........by wearing a skin tight shirt with DDs.

  The clothes weren't unusually so, though. In contemporary terms, her clothes are pretty plain. Mainstream fit. No excess skin showing. No loud colors.
• O-Trap

  

  Laley23;1669187 wrote:But, I personally thought every one of the comments carried sexual connotation.

  If given more context, they might have been. It's not without precedent that a person is simply polite in an attempt to get someone's attention.
  
  However, "Hello. Good morning," without context, carries no sexual connotation. It's a colloquial pleasantry. Had the recipient of the comment's gender changed, we wouldn't see it as sexual, I don't think, even if everything else was the same.
• ernest_t_bass

  

  Laley23;1669187 wrote:The whole thing is stupid.
  
  But, I personally thought every one of the comments carried sexual connotation.

  Lol. Wat!?
• sleeper

  

  SportsAndLady;1669066 wrote:What in the hell are these donations they're asking for going to go to? How do you stop "vocal harassment" in a city?

  Donations are for the organization to pay their admins a decent salary. Then they will do a few PR stunts that cost basically nothing and say they are combating street harassment. It's a money grab from the poor and stupid.
• like_that

  

  LOL this video is pathetic. That's just at typical walk in NYC. You are always going to get random people trying to say something to you in NYC. T Outside of the guy creepily walking by her and the dumbass who couldn't get a hint, that girl can go fuck herself. OMG, people think i am attractive!!!!
• Laley23

  

  O-Trap;1669189 wrote:If given more context, they might have been. It's not without precedent that a person is simply polite in an attempt to get someone's attention.
  
  However, "Hello. Good morning," without context, carries no sexual connotation. It's a colloquial pleasantry. Had the recipient of the comment's gender changed, we wouldn't see it as sexual, I don't think, even if everything else was the same.

  ernest_t_bass;1669196 wrote:Lol. Wat!?

  The words themselves are harmless.
  
  But nobody is sitting there saying those things to everyone they pass in the morning unless they are trying to get someone's attention (99% for sexual reasons). Unless they are homeless lol.
• sleeper

  

  like_that;1669223 wrote:LOL this video is pathetic. That's just at typical walk in NYC. You are always going to get random people trying to say something to you in NYC. T Outside of the guy creepily walking by her and the dumbass who couldn't get a hint, that girl can go fuck herself. OMG, people think i am attractive!!!!

  So in summary: Women.
• superman

  I didn't see any white men "harassing" her.
• TedSheckler

  

  superman;1669239 wrote:I didn't see any white men "harassing" her.

  Well, duh! Whites are civilized.
• O-Trap

  

  sleeper;1669211 wrote:Donations are for the organization to pay their admins a decent salary. Then they will do a few PR stunts that cost basically nothing and say they are combating street harassment. It's a money grab from the poor and stupid.

  This is so true.
  
  Biggest lie about non-profits is that none of them care about money.
  

  Laley23;1669226 wrote:The words themselves are harmless.
  
  But nobody is sitting there saying those things to everyone they pass in the morning unless they are trying to get someone's attention (99% for sexual reasons). Unless they are homeless lol.

  I completely agree with you that if you speak to someone, you're wanting them to pay attention ... at very least to what you've said. Otherwise, there's no point in speaking at all.
  
  However, why do you think that 99% of unprompted greetings are for sexual reasons? Hell, I greet strangers all the time in passing, just to be cordial.
  
  And again, I'm not saying I'm certain that any one of them is platonic in motivation. I actually think you're probably right. I'm just saying that I don't see anything that tells me for sure, and greeting someone with some socially-acceptable platitude isn't without precedent in our culture.
• ernest_t_bass

  

  O-Trap;1669277 wrote: Hell, I greet strangers all the time in passing, just to be cordial.

  Liar.... You want to fuck everyone. EVERYONE.
• O-Trap

  

  ernest_t_bass;1669282 wrote:Liar.... You want to fuck everyone. EVERYONE.

  You caught me.