Street Harassment

[emmelinemay]

It's still happening, but as I now have Obvious Headphones, I can pretend it isn't happening, and ignore it most of the time.

Here's what I wrote last year
(link is to the tagged entries, so scroll down past this one!)

Someone on 2wheelsbetter linked me to an article I thought fit quite well along with those rants, so those of you that were interested in those (which was broadly split between the women that understood, and the men that got offended and said BUT I'M NOT LIKE THAT to which I'd reply read this)

"Why do you think it's OK to harass women?" I said calmly, loudly. The man froze, then a look of fear washed over his features. He shrank like a worm. "What?" he snivelled, his eyes sliding to the floor. "I didn't say anything bad ..."

"It doesn't matter what you said, I didn't say that you could speak to me. It's not OK to whisper in a woman's ear when she's going about her business.


There are also some 'but WOMEN DO IT TOO' and yes, but 'I'M NOT LIKE THAT' comments to the article there too. I sincerely hope I don't have to explain to anyone reading why this makes me cross.

from one of the comments:
It would be great if, instead of claiming we're making a fuss about nothing, the decent men out there accepted that this *is* a problem for a lot of women and make it clear when they see it happening that they don't think harassing women is funny or acceptable.

Comments

[emmelinemay.livejournal.com]

Sorry for the misunderstanding, and the TL;DR!

It came from another conversation I'd been having! you know when all the words start coming out and you're like

TYPETYPETYPETYPE

and then you look up and go, oops....

It was a stream of conciousness as well - I'm still working though how I feel about this, and why it bothers me, and what I want to do about it. Stuff like this on LJ really helps me work it all out as well.

[icecoldinalex.livejournal.com]

it's ok, don't worry! it's an interesting thing to talk about, and it's always really cool to hear proper girl sides to it. We men DO have a tendency to sway too far the other way into an equally unwelcome 'knight in shining armour' mode, so a dose of reality and insight is always good and welcome.
:)