Smile, Baby! A New Study Shows How Often Women and Gay Men Are Sexually Harassed on the Street.

[elias7]

45. I don't think you talk about it too much

My initial response to the slate article was that it didn't really convey a sense of how most women walk through life under the specter of harassment. I would imagine most people have experienced some comment, catcall, whistle, car honk at some point in their lives. I have experienced that myself a dozen or so times, but I didn't even remember those moments when I first responded, but rather once I started to reflect, which tells me that I never felt threatened by it (I've only experienced red and blue). But this is not the same a a constant haranguing that is not really reflected in this study.

I don't know how to change attitudes that are so deeply ingrained in a certain proportion of men as it is certainly about control, as you say. If it doesn't apply to them, they don't have to read the thread. It is a form of control masquerading as harassment to criticize the frequency of such posts, unless they criticize every single subgroup for its recurrent thematic posts.