Remember, to avoid a Sexual Harassment Lawsuit:
1.) Be attractive.
2.) Don't be unattractive.
Posted on 10/31/2014 8:19:03 AM PDT by C19fan
A new video about street harassment has gone viral and it proves that . . . how do I put this? It proves that I was right.
The video, released by the nonprofit anti-street-harassment organization Hollaback, features a moderately attractive woman, Shoshana Roberts, wearing jeans and a T-shirt, walking in silence through Manhattan for ten hours. The trek was recorded on a hidden video camera, carried by Roberts’s boyfriend, who walked in front of her. The camera picked up over 100 instances of street harassment in one day, according to the group, ranging in severity from men shouting “good morning,” and “how you doing today?” to men following her for several minutes, walking uncomfortably close.
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“The video creeps me out.”
She spent 10 hours in crowds for the sole purpose of acquiring a few seconds/minutes of outrageous material.
Remember: outside the video, the remainder of the 10 hours was pretty much uneventful. She’s manipulating you to impute outrage where it doesn’t apply.
I guess it wasn’t a problem a few weeks ago.
If that Gal didn’t have those 34DD TaTa’s and was walking around a better Neighborhood, nobody would have noticed her.
Call 911 on the stalker.
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And what would you charge the guy in the video with?
The writer eventually gets to that....
"Most men who have harassed me on the street have been similar in appearance to Roberts’s harassers. It is very rare, if ever, that a man in a suit on his way to work has shouted obscenities at me.
Street harassment may be a side effect of poor urban culture, one that’s perhaps not surprising if you’re familiar with aggressive rap lyrics and videos that depict women as nothing more than sexual objects."
They bitch when you whistle and they bitch when you don’t whistle.
Remember, to avoid a Sexual Harassment Lawsuit:
1.) Be attractive.
2.) Don't be unattractive.
She handled the comments correctly. Answering would have only served to invite more unwanted comments.
While only a couple were really obnoxious, responses would have elicited a heightening of the obnoxiousness.
Very few of the comments were merely a friendly hello, if any.
Her clothes were tight fitting, she is pretty well stacked and "moderately attractive". This equals attainable to most of the clowns that spoke to her. If she looked like one of the Fox News ladies, these same morons would have stared speechlessly.
Do you suggest breast reduction surgery if she doesn’t like such “attention?
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Take a hyperbole pill this morning? What do you think her mindset was as she dressed for this ‘walk’? Hmmm...do I go with the loose fitting sweatshirt or the skin tight tee?
And take a hike with your cheapshot that I don't understand ‘gentlemanliness’. I specifically used the words ‘honorable intentions’ when describing a man approaching a woman he doesn't know but wants to.
I also understand a contrived, crap video by a liberal with an agenda. I would think that conservatives, if nobody else, would understand it also. Apparently not.
“I agree with you. These jerks are not being “friendly.” They are inappropriately sexualizing a casual meeting.”
And I agree with you. Perhaps this sort of thing is acceptable in some parts of Europe, or central/south America, but I tend to agree it is harassment. I tend to expect strangers in a big city like New York to largely ignore each other. These guys don’t give this friendly “hello” to men or older women they pass on the street, I’ll bet.
I must have missed the memo where saying "good morning" is now a form of harassment.
Of course cat-calling is harassment, but the hypocrisy of the Liberal acceptance of the Muslim treatment of women juxtaposed next to American men cat-calling to a woman is laughable.
If she’d passed me on the street, I wouldn’t have given her a second look.
Especially with that dour expression on her face.
Life’s too short to waste time interacting with some pissy missy.
#13 I watched “The Big Bang Theory” yesterday and they had a guy (Billy Bob Thornton) who thought if a women was friendly and touched you for more then 2 Mississippi’s then she wanted to go out with you.
You mean guys from VietNam?
Not me, buddy - I was brought up to see that kind of behavior as low-life and slimy.
That was my question. I live in a very small town. When I walk uptown and encounter someone on the sidewalk, I usually nod and greet them with "good morning" or "good afternoon," as appropriate. I think that's better than just ignoring them. However, I don't go out of my way to encounter them.
all she has to do is wait 10 years the problem will solve itself.
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