🚨🚨 Street Harassment Awareness Thread 🚨🚨

Grew up in a small enough town, knew it happened but never seen it first hand. Sure enough, first year I was in college I get landed with one of these apes as a roommate. Blows my tiny little mind any time I remember some of the things he said and did. I could never wrap my head around it.

That, and my 2 best friends in college were women and some of the things they told me about what they put up with on their walks home were really disappointing.

Not to be all doom and gloom but is it possible to stop it? Just because guys like that seem to be friends with like minded people, for good reason.

I think that the problem is a little bit bigger than just that.
We are people - and we label, judge and "check" other people for all the time. It's fine - just part of our nature.
But for some reason some people are vocal about it.

And they don't even use their brain before opening their mouth.

Why post this on steamgifts tho, where every user is a massive dweeb who hasn't even seen a girl besides their own mother?

what's catcalling?
catcall
ˈkatkɔːl/Submit
verb
gerund or present participle: catcalling
make a catcall.
"they were fired for catcalling at women"

this is what google gave me , i dont understand sorry ,

• I bet you like it when a handsome guy catcalls you!
  Irrelevant. I expect respect from everyone.

Just to be clear, is it irrelevant whether they're handsome or irrelevant whether you like it?

I always catcall women who I see. My Dad did it and now I do it too. I do it to my mother and sister and they thank me for acknowledging the time they spent dressing. When im working at mcdonalds and a gorgeous woman walks in the store i always say "You look so fine!" or somthin like that and they smile and usually give me a good tip too. never once have I Had Pepper Spray or anything like this only good has come out of it, so I dont see a point in stopping

Preordered.

I don't know if I want to read the comments.

It will be either sad/ infuriating stories that I can empathize with or stupid comments that will make me angry.

I don't know if this happened to the others or not, sometimes i saw some men are ussually catcalled the women even though they dressed appropriately (including my sister). I don't know their motives are, even though i'm male (well my personal thought because the women is beautiful so they just make fun of hers).

I've had women catcall me, grab my ass in the bar/club especially on the dance floor etc- I never really thought much of it to be honest. So when I first started hearing about 'catcalling awareness', I must admit I was pretty skeptical of it all. I wondered if simply saying 'hello' or smiling at someone you thought was nice or attractive would be considered harassment.

I don't blame victims of any sort, I also teach my kids not to place themselves into avoidably bad situations. For my daughters, that might mean not to walk alone through a bad neighborhood late at night wearing club clothes. For my son, that might mean not walking through that same neighborhood alone late at night with gold chains etc. Is that victim blaming? I don't know, I just think it is better to avoid bad situations altogether than to deal with them.

I don't catcall women, but I have smiled and said hello in passing. Growing up in NYC, 'how you doin' is pretty standard to say to anyone, male or female. So, when I was watching the videos, the message seemed mixed. The first video was done really well and helped get the message across, but a couple of the others didn't make as much sense. In one of the videos, a guy that said 'how are you?' was equated with someone who stalked her for a couple blocks.

Anyway, best of luck with the awareness. For me, it is as simple as teaching my kids to respect others. If everyone taught their kids to respect others, how much better the world might be?

Have a great day!

this happened to me as well sometimes (as probably to every woman), my dad has bought me pepper spray when the refugee crisis got out of control. my town is very small, therefore no experiences like that in here, at least. also there's a difference between "hey, I just wanted to tell you that you look fine" and "hey babe nice ass, yo wanna fuck?" also between a friendly smile or a complete "inspection". The first ones are GOOD experiences, compliments are fine, but it depends on >HOW<.
oh and my personal head-shaking moment was when I saw this in german swimming bath: means: no verbal or non-verbal harassment against women in ANY clothes. I mean just what the fuck now we need signs for this !!

Ahhh one of my favourite perks of being ugly is that people tend to leave you alone.
But even then it still happened to me a couple of times. I wanted to punch the asshole in the face so bad. I don't understand this kinds of people.

Men comments are irrelevant, saying that we're committed with the cause by yourself doesn't means nothing for the harassed and abused girls, because they don't know you or another kind men and that's because some monster took away her hope in mankind.

We can't spend our time by thinking why they are doing such thing, we should be educating our children's to respect each other don't matter their sex and we should be punishing harder the people who harass someone. It's obvious, that's why i'm so angry about it, now imagine how the girls are felling about it?

Anyway... Education is a long-term solution, but bullets are faster and i can help you to hide the body.

only the parents that educate well their sons/daughters can stop that, sry but you have to deal whit it, this it's the society we have in this 21 century, this will never stop in this generations of people.

at least be happy that you are beautiful and people say good things about you, think in the "not beautiful" people that never get a word for someone saying good things.

what u gotta do is get a katana and cut their throats

Dear Dad

Thanks.

I want to add that, yes, men should confront other men who are catcalling. It's a public event, and if I am in public, it is my responsibility to help make it a public experience that is safe for women.

Odd isn't it? We're having this discussion but the fact is, it's rude. And the thing is it only reinforces gender stereotypes. Men are predators, when that honestly isn't the case. Look it's just stupid, don't be rude. Don't follow people down the street, just don't be a dick. And if you see other people being a dick call them out on it. You want to solve the problem, then it's going to be men that do it rather than women. Unless apparently women start banding together and calling men out in public and shaming the shit out of them. I'd like to avoid that. Mother's and fathers need to point to that shit on the street and tell their kids that's a shitty thing to do. Don't be like that fucking asshole, and if your friend does it, tell him he's being disrespectful. And if he continues then maybe you shouldn't be friends anymore.

The thing is most of the guys that do this cant change, that is just the way they are, some think that it is funny, especially if they are in group then they feel like they are cool dudes (but honestly they are not), some think that girls like it (well obviously they dont), and some just dont respect women. The funny thing is I had a friend who used to do this (a lot), when I asked him why does he do it, he said: "Ow man cmon, I dont mean anything by it, I am just having fun", as soon as he said that his sister walked by and I immediately catcalled her (yeah I know), he was like wtf dude, then I apologized to her and said to him, the girl you catcalled earlier is probably someone else`s sister mate, then she explained to him how bad it is to be catcalled and how many times she was catcalled and how she felt. From that moment on he never did it again.
Btw a question for girls, sometimes when I go out walk through the city, I sometimes tend to say Hi to some random girls to which they reply Hi and smile back (If I am not wrong that is not catcalling?). To be honest I met my best friend that way, she is like a sister to me now.

World is really strange place. There are people who are freely catcalling others and there are people like me - who are afraid of talking to strangers.

I have read not long ago a young woman that is talking selfies with each of her harrassers, for awareness.

Bump for cats!

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that's true, and sad, fucking sad

there's just some people that, i don't know, they r just retarded and can't understand how to respect a person. One time I saw some guys in a car moving, passing by a girl and they put their heads out and start whistle and screaming like fucking animals in their primitive state

People will feel attracted by other ones, that'ts a fact, and if they go out they will find someone attractive to them, that's normal, but cmon they just need to keep it to themselves, I honestly can't understand how hard that can be

i'm sorry that you have to deal with that so much, and damn you even had to use pepper spray, i never saw pepper spray in person, so yeah, that for me it's a abnormal situation when people need to carry it to protected themselves, glad you had it with you