#Catcalling Video Maker Receives "Rape and Death Threats" Online.

This video doesn't make an awful lot of sense. 'Have a nice day' Erm what? I don't understand what's going on.

I also don't know why it's news that famous people get death threats.

Commanding a women to smile has patronizingly sexist undertones. And these niceties are also problematic because this is NYC not Southern or middle America where niceties are exchanged towards both genders, women are the only one receiving them generally so what does that say? That the men are trying to flirt/initiate something and this isn't the right social context to be doing that. Plus there's a general expectation for the women to respond as you can see by this video (one guy says "you should say thank you more" another asked "you don't wanna talk") and if a women responds 90% of the time the men are going to take it as a invitation to start conversing.

As far as action is concerned, increase social stigma and try to educate people more at a young age or whatever. Sure both of these things won't eliminate it and both are currently happening but fewer people the better. Do nothing isn't a good strategy.

Do men say 'have a nice day' to other men? The problem is the context, if they were in cafe or bar fair enough, but a woman should be able to walk down the street without having comments made about her.

The video is a collaboration between Hollaback!, an anti-street harassment organisation, and the marketing agency Rob Bliss Creative. At the end they claim the woman experienced 100 plus incidents of harassment "involving people of all backgrounds." Since that obviously doesn't show up in the video, Bliss addressed it in a post. He wrote, "we got a fair amount of white guys, but for whatever reason, a lot of what they said was in passing, or off camera" or was ruined by a siren or other noise.

http://www.stuff.co.nz/life-style/life/62799602/The-catcalling-video-They-edited-out-the-white-guys

Threads like this make me wonder what it would take to make people like you realise that there just might actually be a problem here.

She films herself getting harassed just going about her daily life and subsequently receives rape threats for releasing the footage and the two problems you identify are that she either:

-Is milking it for publicity, or
-Doesn't know how the internet works

**** off.

Do men say 'have a nice day' to other men? The problem is the context, if they were in cafe or bar fair enough, but a woman should be able to walk down the street without having comments made about her.

Commanding a women to smile has patronizingly sexist undertones. And these niceties are also problematic because this is NYC not Southern or middle America where niceties are exchanged towards both genders, women are the only one receiving them generally so what does that say? That the men are trying to flirt/initiate something and this isn't the right social context to be doing that. Plus there's a general expectation for the women to respond as you can see by this video (one guy says "you should say thank you more" another asked "you don't wanna talk") and if a women responds 90% of the time the men are going to take it as a invitation to start conversing.

As far as action is concerned, increase social stigma and try to educate people more at a young age or whatever. Sure both of these things won't eliminate it and both are currently happening but fewer people the better. Do nothing isn't a good strategy.

So basically make America like London ? What exactly are they meant to teach , "boys , dont talk to random girls , its harrasment" .

Also what if a girl actually wants a guy to approach her ?

Video is bad because they muddled the message of sexual harassment, when the line between trying to get someones attention and harassment is pretty clear. They had a simple job and did not execute it properly, now it is even easier to dismiss femanists. Counter productive.

Also the white people were admittedly edited out the video.



Take that how you want.

Do men say 'have a nice day' to other men? The problem is the context, if they were in cafe or bar fair enough, but a woman should be able to walk down the street without having comments made about her.

Seen this on Twitter:

"I HAVE THE RIGHT TO BE LEFT ALONE. YOU DO NOT HAVE THE RIGHT TO TALK TO ME, THAT'S A PRIVILEGE"

Errr, what? Talking to people is a right as well.

I do sort of wonder, what sort of scenario where a male stranger comments anything towards a female would not be classed as harassment if comments like "have a nice day now" are deemed harassing behavior? You get threads on TSR from time to time about how to approach girls in the street, what to say if there's a girl you pass on the way to work you like but don't know what to do, do girls mind guys complimenting them etc. Some girls say any contact from strangers is weird (...right) but most will generally say if it's not done in a pervy way it's a nice compliment it's okay. So...what does a guy have to do? If a guy had stopped her and said to her "hey excuse me I just wanted to say you look really beautiful", I assume that's harassment? Certainly it's more then a guy sitting outside a cafe halfheartedly saying "you have a good day" and making no attempt to obstruct her.

I mean maybe it makes a difference whether the male in question is say Chris Hemsworth, compared to say Richard Kiel?