<p>Very sad commentary on the regular harassment endured by women just walking silently. The actress has already received threats of rape and death!</p>
<p><a href=“http://m.wsoctv.com/news/news/walking-nyc-woman-video-goes-viral/nhtnL/”>http://m.wsoctv.com/news/news/walking-nyc-woman-video-goes-viral/nhtnL/</a></p>
<p>That was a very interesting video for various reasons. It is concerning that the producers chose to edit out the behavior of white men and haven’t explained that gap adequately. </p>
<p>Great subject matter…</p>
<p>When I was young I hated the catcalls - one advantage of age is invisibility to men on the street. I remember that my daily walk from the subway to work was miserable because I had to pass a couple of construction sites, so there was even more harassment than usual. One day, I happened to run into a male colleague on the subway and we walked together - blissful peace, not one comment. </p>
<p>I also find it strange that only black men appeared on the video. </p>
<p>When questioned about it, NYMomof2, the producers had a silly answer.</p>
<p>I’m afraid to ask …</p>
<p>I googled it. Really bad answer. It’s a shame that the important message that the video gets across is undermined by racism.</p>
<p>I don’t know if it’s being undermined by racism, or by political correctness, or by both.</p>
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<a href=“Catcalling video: Hollaback's look at street harassment in NYC edited out the white guys.”>http://www.slate.com/blogs/xx_factor/2014/10/29/catcalling_video_hollaback_s_look_at_street_harassment_in_nyc_edited_out.html</a>
Uh, ok. Aren’t just about <em>all</em> the catcalls made in passing?</p>
<p>This is something that I have been plagued with all of my life. As I have matured, I speak up. My responses will typically embarrass them. A man made a comment to dd who was 13 at the time. She was clearly young and I asked him if he wanted to be disemboweled. Told him I was looking to unleash some pent up rage on someone. He ran. </p>
<p>I think it’s undermined by being a stupid publicity stunt. Does anyone not know that a pretty woman walking alone past a bunch of guys hanging out in the street is going to get cat called? I don’t know why anyone is giving her attention.</p>
<p>@Flossy </p>
<p>Trust me, it doesn’t even have to be a group. They don’t have to be hanging out either! It can be one lone “a” hole on a quiet, tree lined street. In line at a bank, at the fish counter at the grocery store, in front of child’s school at dismissal, at the hardware store.</p>
<p>Yup. I’m aware. We used to costume ourselves as ugly chicks to avoid harassment. Believe it or not.</p>
<p>I think this is pretty complicated, and I’d be curious to know if it’s been studied. Obviously, this film is not a study, or even much of a sample. I have to say that I have observed black males do this many, many more times than I’ve observed white males doing it. Is that because I notice the black men and not the white men? Maybe. Is it because what they do and say isn’t the same? Also, maybe. Is it possible that this particular unsavory behavior is more common among black men than among white men? Again, maybe.</p>
<p>Also, I wonder what these men think they are doing? Are they trying to annoy the woman? Assert power over her? Genuinely compliment her? Get her attention and actually make contact with her? A mixture of these? The guy who silently walks beside you is creepy. Is the guy who says, “Good morning” creepy? Or is it only creepy if he says, “Good morning, beautiful” ? I also think that people will have different degrees of reaction to this, in part based on whether they’ve had to deal with it over time.</p>
<p>I’ve been dealing with it since I was a pre teen. I didn’t understand it at all back then, but my body started maturing far beyond my emotional maturity. And yes, they are trying to make a connection/pick you up. When I was young, I never said anything. Now? I call them on their behavior. </p>
<p>I wonder why they only highlighted black & Latino men(yes, many of the guys in the video were Latino). What was there agenda in doing so? Are they trying to perpetuate a myth that only men of color behave like this?</p>
<p>I think it depends on what neighborhood you walk through. At least in my home country it was. If you walk in a “rough” neighborhood where people hang out and they don’t recognize you, you’ll get catcalls etc. Almost territorial. If you walk through a busy market, you won’t.</p>
<p>I found most of the comments shown in the clip mild and harmless. Just guys wanting to try to strike up a convo with an attractive woman. Responses is overwrought looking for problems. </p>
<p>I’m not familiar with the area where this was filmed and whether it’s a real phenomenon or if for any reason the video was put together for some reason unbeknownst to us. If it’s real I think it’s not about guys noticing that a woman is beautiful but rather when she is endowed.</p>
<p>I watched the video at YouTube, so I had a look at the comments, too. I realize that people who comment are not a true cross-section of the public, anymore than the subjects of the video are. But so many of them are so ignorant that they just embarrass me. At the top of the page when I loaded it:
I do not understand why anyone would think it is acceptable to shout compliments at a stranger. I also perceive a high degree of disingenuousness when people claim that saying “Damn!” as a woman passes is only a compliment.</p>
<p>I find myself rethinking a lot of gags I’ve seen in movies and TV programs where white guys do this sort of thing and it’s played for laughs. I guess it was funny the same way it’s funny when the coyote’s head blows up.</p>
<p>Agree 100% with @barrons, the description often was reduced to “but, but, they talked to her without being asked!!!”</p>
<p>When I was a teen, and being beaten up frequently thus not really happy, I would not smile in general. If I was on the boardwalk or other places where people hang out, guys of all ages would say to me “Smile!” or “It can’t be that bad!”. </p>
<p>I don’t think I ever got any catcalls in my entire life. Then again, I dress conservatively and don’t wear makeup. And I’m not looking around for any action.</p>
<p>Yes, the guys who whistled at her or anything like that (and the woman was a model/actress, correct, so likely walked in that manner?) would be totally wrong and discriminatory. But one quote was something like “Good morning, nice day isn’t it?”. Yeesh.</p>
<p>The #1 people I want to smack are the ones who design girls clothes, especially those sold at Target and Walmart. They pander to sexualize young girls. I have to take my daughter to Sears, and even then, usually Lands End, to get stuff that isn’t showing her whosie whatsis (she is young, not a teen).</p>