Posted on 10/29/2014 5:39:37 PM PDT by grundle
A video to raise awareness of street harassment, featuring a Pittsburgh CAPA graduate, has gone viral with more than 7 million YouTube views since Tuesday morning.
For more than 10 hours, Shoshana Roberts, 24, walks in New York City as part of a hidden-camera experiment. She is spoken to more than 100 times by male strangers, with numerous greetings, comments on her appearance and one stretch where a man walks closely next to her for five full minutes.
The two-minute video, made by the group Hollaback! to raise awareness of street harassment, has attracted international attention since it was published on Tuesday. It is currently featured online on CNN, The Washington Post and many other news sites.
“This is a typical day for me,” said Ms. Roberts, noting that in the video she walked in neighborhoods such as Soho, Midtown, the Upper West Side and Harlem -- all places she would go in her everyday life. “A lot of the feedback I’ve heard is that this happens to so many other people. My story is not unique.”
Ms. Roberts, who graduated in 2008 from the musical theater program at Pittsburgh CAPA and graduated as a drama major in 2012 from Kutztown University, now works as an actress in New York City. In the video she wears jeans and a black T-shirt and is filmed by a man walking in front of her, with a camera hidden in his backpack.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b1XGPvbWn0A
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Look who was making the comments. Black tend to be aggressive toward women. A walk through white LA or SF or Miami would not have aroused (no pun intended) more than aglance.
She certainly comes across as a typical stuck up -——
Assuming the video was an accurate sampling of the total number of comments she filmed... it is not emblamatic of male behavior, rather it portrays the behavior of males who are also members of a lower socio-economic class. Was that the point she was trying to make?
Wish I could get “harassed” like that by the ladies.....
Ms Roberts, I fart in your general direction.
Without the audio, I’d deduce she was on drugs and walking aimlessly. But then I never bought into the thought a woman can dress and behave however she wants with no expected consequence.
Obviously staged. There are MUCH BETTER looking women than this one in NYC, and they are mostly left alone.
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