“Hey, Beautiful”: On the Racist and Classist Implications of the Catcalling Video

[garf]

http://www.bkmag.com/2014/10/29/hey-beautiful-on-the-racist-and-classist-implications-of-the-catcalling-video/

“Hey, Beautiful”: On the Racist and Classist Implications of the Catcalling Video

October 29, 2014

... the video chooses to showcase the experience of a white woman experiencing harassment almost exclusively at the hands of black and Latino men...

... the video helps to perpetuate the long-held, erroneous belief that harassment mostly takes the form of white women being bothered by “low class” men of color...

Hollaback is soliciting viewers for donations, and is thus counting on the outrage of people with money, i.e. people who have disposable income and a certain place in the pre-existing power structure which has no problem with the ongoing propagation of the myth of the white woman as the ur-victim.

[lumberjack_jeff]

1. The last paragraph rings true. n/t

[Dont call me Shirley]

2. I noticed that and was put off by it. I thought it was racist also.

[maced666]

3. Yes, those poor, misogynist catcallers...

No one ever sees their side of things.

[salib]

4. Who said anything about sympathy for cat callers?

Or misogynists?

[Wella]

7. Women always seem to come last, don't we

Dead last.

[Ms. Toad]

5. Don't like that one,

Try this one - same idea, with a woman with brown skin.

http://thedailyshow.cc.com/videos/5ndnit/jessica-s-feminized-atmosphere

Nothing to do with racism and classism, and everything to do with raising awareness of what women experience every day walking down the street.

[seaglass]

6. Some reason you needed 2 threads on this? n/t