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

[zazen]

51. I agree: are the 18% men and 51% women harassed once/year or 12/times/day?

I'll just say that the study is a nice start in having social science research underscore (for the clueless) what those of us who've experienced it know already. But at least in this synopsis, frequency/saturation isn't reported. So if a man is harassed once a year and a woman is harassed over 200 times a year, they're still considered the same equivalent data point.

Also, 51% verbal harassment of women seems too low . . . I guess i need to read the study directly, but were the other forms of abuse _within_ that 51% or in addition to it?

My experience personally of being harassed every time I left the house for years (and at my doorbell by strange men who had found my address), and of what girlfriends told and my daughters tell me, would suggest that 98% of females in this culture have been verbally harassed.

Frequency was definitely the worst, when I compare being 20 and in my 40s. I get harassed now but only occasionally, and it reminds me of how f-ing relentless it was 25 years ago, every time I tried to go anywhere in public, and how maddening it was that you couldn't vent about it without being blamed for it or called conceited (as if being harassed is something to brag about). It was like carrying a 40 pound stone. It's one thing about aging I really appreciate.