Washington CIty Paper: Street Harrassment

[srednivashtar]

I wonder how this faction responds to the notion that some people have real problems. Not that I'm trivializing the assaultive nature of catcalling, but, really? Men have ALWAYS been non-responsive to ideas like: "What if that were your sister/mother/daughter?" And the reason is because their brains are wired directly to their libidos, as in dicks. Crying and whining and complaining does nothing but make women look even weaker. The pathetic young men in this video don't deserve any attention.

[UhHuhHer85]

I think the idiot in the cornrolls is lying about his tacky cat-calls working. It's pretty clear he's single and has never even been "inside" of a woman before. He's too thirsty. Women of all races can't stand thirsty ass men.

[prettyyoungthing90]

He's a stalker for sure

wierd and stupid

[prettyyoungthing90]

I can't stand cat callers

I feel so ashame to give a stranger my number & I'm not even interested in him like that / i'm not going to trip because I don't talk on the phone anyway

For now on I'm not giving out my number anymore

[level242]

Good luck with your housefull of cats.

[kjchicago1]

@prettyyoungthing90 Just be careful & be yourself! There's danger everywhere!

[gberchenko]

Oh sure, women are good, men are bad evil predators, women never look at men, ogle men, never right? What gets lost in all this is that women's very existence is due to fact that vast majority of men are NOT evil predators who are out to hurt women. I am against any genuine harassment, but getting upset because someone yells "shorty"? Please.

[Karopex]

@gberchenko have you ever honestly seen a women catcalling at a man? no.

women's very existence is due to the fact that god put us here. that we were born. we do not live because men let us.

someone yelling 'shawty' or 'shorty' or 'baby' is sexual harassment. harassment. genuine harassment. verbal violence is still violence.

that woman said someone implied she was a prostitute. can i have you for the day? that is fucking harassment dickwad.

shut up and stop kidding yourself.

[gberchenko]

@Karopex

If most men really wanted to we could kill a woman with one hand in 60 seconds or less, and for most part it would take very little effort to do it. The fact that this happens rarely is due to fact that most men are NOT predators, jerks, whatever else you make them out to be. I lived in DC and too many women there are stuck on themselves, walking in short, short skirts that show almost everything but we can't say anything to them? Doesn't work that way sweetie.

[BloodandthunderVII]

@gberchenko I know in about half a second that firstly: you don't know what street harassment means. Secondly: You have never been harassed on the street. Every day. All day. Thirdly: you probably harass women yourself if you believe the trip you just slapped on here. Please die in a fire.

[gberchenko]

@BloodandthunderVII

I might consider looking into some of your claims about the harassment, but do not get personal with me bitch, suck my dick when you say something like that. Stupid, trifling piece of pussy.

[causticstorm]

@gberchenko You wanna try a LITTLE harder to be hardcore with a keyboard? It didn't work this time. And all you did was prove my point. Thanks! Nice doing business with you.

[gberchenko]

@causticstorm

What point? Do you even have one? Take a chill pill sister, go get your nails painted, hair done, don't worry about this.

[rainonmebi]

this street harassment and lack of respect for women is getting out of control. It is not just a washington city problem or an atlanta problem or whatever, its EVERYWHERE and its becoming a pandemic, or rather, it IS a pandemic. I live in brooklyn, most recently moved to flatbush been living here for 2 months and i really dont know how much more harassment i can take, and you know what? theres NOTHING i can do about it. helpless.

[KollegeGirl13]

Street harassment is horrible in Atlanta especially in downtown Atlanta. You could be a GSU student walking to class or a woman walking to work and here comes a bunch of guys just standing outside being obnoxious. It's not cute at all and when you turn them down or look at them like they are crazy they want to call you stuck up and call you a B****. Where is the chivalry? If you are interested all you have to do is introduce yourself and be polite.

[QueenOfTheIsle]

Fucking sickening. Street harassment is horrible. Some boyz need to learn some fucking respect. Clowns should get slapped in their silly faces. Wow.

[HappyHookerTV]

This guy who did this is a sick fuck. He sounds like the type who will hunt for street walkers on the street late at night. Not only is this disrespectful to women, but racist as well. He's taking people who represent the most deplorable of racial stereotypes and putting them on here for all the world to see. I esp disdain how he is representing black women, as if we are these hypersexual, constantly consenting sex objects, just like in music vids, for white men to take advantage of us.

[rainonmebi]

@HappyHookerTV are you talking about who made the video? i think he was trying to portray and very accurately i might add, how these disgusting cat-callers treat women, usually black and latino women, and how we as Black or latina women feel on the ends of that disrespectful cat calling.

[UhHuhHer85]

@rainonmebi so true. The worst offenders are indeed black men. It's tacky and disrespecful the way most of them approach females. You can't even turn them down gently without being called a bitch or them threatening to hurt you. Baltimore City, to me, is the worst place for street harassment.

[ToyinJoseph]

I FUCKIN HATE THESE STUPID CAT-CALLING MUM FUCKERS

[bogusfocus]

Oh that's the life.... "Can I buy you just for today" - why didn't I come up with that?!

[HappyHookerTV]

This is why women need to stick together. It should show the womyn that succumbed at the hands of these "bumbling idiots." The problem here is that these guys don't care that their behavior makes womyn into objects and uncomfortably imposes against our wills in our space. It's about keeping womyn off the streets and ensuring that we stay off and this fucking nerd who is doing the interviewing- it seems like he is adding an element of racism along with sexism by interviewing the worst of my ppl

[thisisjustme1]

Even more pathetic than the the bloke on the video are some of the comments in here. Looks like some folks are still closer to monkey than human.

The problem is that while homophobic or racist harassment is largely frowned upon, everybody still thinks that sexual (i.e. based on gender) harassment is no big deal.

[rainonmebi]

@thisisjustme1 so true. sexual harassment is very often overlooked in american society. Its like "oh she loves it" or "hes just being a man" or "dont take it so seriously."

[helihellraiser]

Women bitch to fucking much. If they don't want to be "harassed" then they need to put on some clothes or get a car. When I was single, I didn't approach women or even talk to women, because they bitch too damn much about everything. When they approached me, I ignored them. When I tell Black women I am married, they say "what does your bitch have to do with me"? I got fed up with being bothered by women, that I started to dress like a bum when I go shopping.

[rainonmebi]

@helihellraiser thats bullshit. are you fucking kidding? i dont dress like a hoe and when i walk to the store i still get harassed. I could be wearing baggy sweatpants, and hooded shirt a long coat, sunglass and a hat and i will still get hollered at like i was halle berry walking down the damn street. Even if im in my damn girl i get hollered at by the dude in the next car or the dude on the corner. It never ends.

[steviebdiesel]

It is a numbers game. I've seen guys try every girl who walked past & get a few numbers.  Men like pussy. Prostitution is illegal but there aren't any laws against approaching women. If they wanted to stop this all they need to do is bring in a lot of pretty $15 hos from South America. That would reduce street harassment a lot.

[ReloadedNow]

Come on if it didn't work he wouldn't do it. Granted it may only work out of every 10000 times but it does work.

He'd have more success if he had a decent looking car.

[mrbriscoe2001]

didn't really witness any real harassment in this video. I think,to be honest,it comes down to women not wanting to talk to any stranger on the street;it doesn't really matter what the guy says; I think there's a psychological reference to prostitution going on...

[nutzw1]

fucking monkey!!

[YorySesca]

These people are so ignorant, their success rate is less than 1%. Not one of these idiots has any class or educational background.

[MaDuke]

what a wasteman

[8DecK5org]

Simply pathetic. My god, what losers...

[mercatorblue]

i just want to shoot all these guys in the face, no lie

[thecwexperience]

Absolutely Reprehensible! These actions should be treated as CRIME by all...No longer can we hold on on the old excuses

"I don't trust police" yadda, yadda, yadda

Black Women: If we don't care or take a stand NO ONE else will! The time is NOW!

[chynadoll987]

These men are disgusting.........and black men say that black women have attitudes, of course we do cause most of you guys talk to us like we are a piece of ass...

[oolongful]

This barely scratches the surface of the phenomenon. It is intimidating, degrading, misogynistic, and enough to make me want to walk around in a 20-foot parka.

[celticspark]

I live in NYC and I also deal with this shit everyday. Whats worse! Older men encourage there young kids to do it also. Its happened to me a 14 y.o kids made a horrid remake and the older men just stood there with pride.

[AyitaZuleikaReyes]

This the shit I have to go through everyday as a woman in DC.

[DarkestOne7]

right, cuz you look like haley berry

[inachu]

Interview Cool disco Dan as his grafitti had class and style. Chumps and drunks and wannabe skaters over sprayed his tags and nwo the area loosk gay without his tag line...

Cmmon Cool Disco Dan! We need ya back now!

[skypurple15]

that boy needs a job.

[skyshany]

LMAO

he acts like this is his job to stand by a tree hollering at girls.

A mess!! So true.

[AsalSays]

omg some guys have the nerve to ask if you have a boyfriend and when you say yeah, they're like "don't matter!*

ahhhh

trashy, trashy, trashy.

[twoshoesdc]

Street harassment is not cute or benign and the guys who do it are pathetic. I thought the piece was far too sympathetic to them -- it should show some of the real jerks and how offensive their behavior is.

[Xearafe]

trashy and totally without class. Obviously this does not work for him because he has been doing this for years and he still hasn't succeeded.

[roosh4]

"Do you got a man" is NOT game

[realchic1999]

This clown is in major denial if he feels that mess works. I felt bad for the girl at the end in the pink shirt---those fools looked like they were getting too close and trying to crowd up on her.

[kjchicago1]

@realchic1999 Where have all the good men gone? The real gentlemen?

[HtotheB]

B.S. it works for him. They all just tell him they have boyfriends to brush him off. What a pest.