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France tackles street harassment
Tweet A student’s documentary recently opened the topic of street harassment in the medias. Sofie Peeters, a cinema student living in Brussels filmed the street harassment she had to endure everyday and made a film out of it. The film opened a debate in Belgium, making the government think about legally defining sexism in [...]
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On dealing with a peculiar kind of street harassment
TweetA SYTYCB entry 1. Hey, hey, big gal! Big gal! 2. 6’7″!!!! 3. Heeey, shorty? (insert loud mouthed laugh) I recently moved back to New York from what felt like a blink-and-you-miss-it stint on the West Coast. Three years was just enough to forget how to insert a Metrocard correctly, avoid peak supermarket times, and just how much men [...]
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Hey gorgeous, nice tits!
TweetThe first time I tried talking about street harassment with a male friend, he told me that he would be flattered by the attention. This sort of stymied me, because I couldn’t agree with him, but didn’t have the words to describe how being the subject of street harassment feels. That experience prompted me to [...]
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in which I will brook none of that shit: a post about talking back and street harassment
TweetFair warning to all sad, sorry young men trolling the streets of my city: if you cat-call me (as one unfortunate boy discovered the other day), I will not take it. I will instead stop my bike, ask you to please explain precisely why you think it’s acceptable to speak to me that way, and [...]
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France tackles street harassment