Report: Many girls view sexual assault as normal behavior

[KitSileya]

20. I'm sorry that happened to you.

I think street harassment has nothing to do with complimenting women, or with trying to 'score.' Even Nigerian prince email scams must have a higher success rate than street harassment. No woman would turn to her street harasser and say, 'Ooh, that was so sexy, let's have sex'. No, street harassment is done for the express purpose of controlling women, to remind them that they aren't safe, that they are less than, and to make sure they always are aware of the dangers so that they don't get "too full of themselves." It's to keep women from reaching their full potential, to keep the playing field uneven and easier for men. Street harassment is done to teach women to be that little more afraid, that little more timid, to give them another factor to evaluate when they go about their daily lives, to stress them out, make them scared, make their minds function a little less efficiently on the task of their daily life because they are stressed/scared/uncomfortable, and men who don't have to take that into consideration, can go though their lives without that obstacle, and hence that little bit more easily. It's creating a privilege for men, and an extra obstacle for women. That is the purpose of street harassment.