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Woman receives rape threats after recording sexual harassment walking New York streets

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Scarletohello · 29/10/2014 15:32

Bloody hell!

Article and video here

www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2014/oct/29/woman-records-10-hours-of-harassment-walking-through-new-york

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Scarletohello · 29/10/2014 16:57

Interesting comments under the article too. Although many men are genuinely shocked, there are some who are saying things like this:

What if you never get to see her again? This is your only chance, even if it's a tiny one, go for it, the worst she can say is piss off.

Lucky cow. Oh! To be young and beautiful again

Guys find attractive girl attractive and try to talk to her, shocker!

I'm not saying it doesn't come across as creepy or scary for women but what you are seeing here is perfectly natural and is as old as time. These guys mean no harm.

Yeah they need to up their game from the scatter gun approach but I once got a girls number sat at the lights in my mates car so it does work sometimes.

She's in incredible shape, striding along in skintight clothes showing off an amazing derriere attracting the guys behind, and a pert bouncing rack to hypnotise the gents in front.The major problem appears to be, she's walking through the set of Taxi Driver. Get a load of the pimp sounding guy in purple robes, what a throwback!

So complimenting a woman in public is now harassment is it? Perhaps they should criminalise it, along with 'looking at an attractive woman in a lewd way'. There was nothing aggressive or threatening about any of those comments they were perfectly innocuous.

As a man, I thought most of these guys were just being friendly

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Notmymonkeys · 29/10/2014 16:40

What is wrong with some people? Seriously, what is wrong with them???

Do they get off on making those kinds of threats? Why????

WhoElsa · 29/10/2014 16:33

How can anyone watch that and not get it? They really do think they have a right to talk to her, a right to her body and a right to be politely responded to.

Scarletohello · 29/10/2014 15:57

I think what struck me the most was the fact that the guys felt affronted when she didn't respond to their comments or advances, the arrogance of it! And the guy silently walking alongside her... Chilling.

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ZombiePuffinsAreREAL · 29/10/2014 15:50

Honestly, I am going to set myself up as a feminist fortune teller, because I watched that video and thought, she's going to get threatened for doing this. I'm so sad I was correct.

cruikshank · 29/10/2014 15:44

I saw the video, thought 'That sucks but I am not surprised' and now that I know she's been threatened I suppose I'm also not surprised. But it is still completely unacceptable. We should be able to walk (or teeter, or stagger, or whatever) along a street without being harassed. We should also be able to share our experiences of being harassed without being threatened with violence. Now that I've typed it out, it makes perfect sense, but I know that this is sadly not the case, for any woman, anywhere.

I have, in the course of my life from pre-pubescent teen to the woman I am now, been flashed at, groped, propositioned, verbally abused, threatened etc. Just because I have left the house. I would say that is true for pretty much every woman.

We need a revolution!

PumpkinGordino · 29/10/2014 15:35

i am honestly not surprised

MyEmpireOfDirt · 29/10/2014 15:34

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