Women combat street harrassment in NYC

[Cowperson]

Another use for the internet . . . . women combatting street harrassment in New York with phone cameras. Some background:

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,186116,00.html

And the website in question at the link below . . . . have to scroll down and use some links.

Holla Back NYC empowers New Yorkers to Holla Back at street harassers. Whether you're commuting, lunching, partying, dancing, walking, chilling, drinking, or sunning, you have the right to feel safe, confident, and sexy, without being the object of someone's fantasy.

So stop walkin' on and Holla Back: Send us pics of street harassers!

http://www.hollabacknyc.blogspot.com/

Cowperson

[Calgary Flames]

If you dress sexy, expect to be looked at. Don't harrass them, but i'll be damned if i'm not going to check you out!

[Agamemnon]

Originally Posted by Calgary Flames

If you dress sexy, expect to be looked at. Don't harrass them, but i'll be damned if i'm not going to check you out!

Lol, isn't this a little obvious? Of course they expect to be looked at, why else would a person 'dress nicely' or 'sexily' if they didn't want to be looked at? 'Looking' isn't the problem the article adresses. They don't say you're not allowed to look at them!!

[Hakan]

Agreed, looking is just fine only as long as it's just looking.

Some guys think they have a divine right to approach, talk whatever women who look good or dress sexy. To quote the vagina monologues: "[Their] short skirt is none of your business!"

[ken0042]

There's one on there where the girl asked to take his picture, and she said that she was taking pictures of everybody who called her pretty.

In my mind, she is almost telling the guy that she is flattered by the comment, and now he might try the same approach with the next woman. Seems a little counter productive.

[Igottago]

cheesey pick up lines are considered harrassment these days? The one about the pony was awesome..I gotta remember that for stampede time.

[Eastern Girl]

I can't help but be concerned about safety. I am sure that most guys wouldn't take kindly to seeing the woman pull out a cell or camera and take a pic of them. Like Ken pointed out, if you lie, the guy might think this is the way to go and it just continues the behaviour. You would have to tell the guy that you are taking the picture for a website of creepy guys in NY for it to have a chance at changing the behaviour... but that leads me back to my concern for safety.
I will commend them for trying to do something, even though it does seem fruitless. There will always be guys saying stuff to women in the streets.

And as for the comment about if you dress sexy, expect comments. Men make comments regardless of what you are wearing. If you dress sexy, you more than likely will get more comments, but some men are just creepy and what you are wearing makes little difference.

[Eastern Girl]

Originally Posted by fotze

But is it true that if the guy looks like a model it is less creepy than if a toothless heavy breathing nerd makes the comment.

It sure would to me if the sexes were reversed.

To me, it depends on the comment really. Some guys are pretty graphic and therefore creepy in my mind, regardless of what they look like.

[Bobblehead]

I'd be worried that this is wide open for abuse. Get upset and a guy for any reason what-so-ever (justified or not), take a picture and post it there.

I like the idea, but the possibilty of a mistake(or maliciousness) creating real grief would concern me.

[Cowperson]

You could extend the idea to a general concept.

Like . . . . Jerks.com . . . .

On the other hand, take a picture of someone, post it on the web and allege they were rude or crude and you might be exposing the site and yourself to a lawsuit.

Cowperson

[Super-Rye]

So I'm reading through and I see she's at a bar and I think to myself, Is she going to bitch about being hit on at a bar? Then I read what the guy said and couldn't believe it. WHO SAYS THAT? Obviously not anyone worth the time.

[T I M]

I bet deep down this was invented by cell phone companies trying to push camera phones.