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KurtNYC

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Fri Oct 31, 2014, 10:06 AM Oct 2014

Before the "10 Hours" video -- Street Harrassment caught on camera [View all]

Bliss and Hollaback aren't the first to document street harrassment. Rob Bliss, who made the most recent video admits to not doing much research:

Rob Bliss: As a guy who makes viral videos for a living, I was looking at this issue and I realized that no one had ever truly captured what street harassment looks like. No one had ever really given the world an ability to, just in broad daylight — without bias or judgment or messaging or anything like that — just be able to watch street harassment take place in the real world


http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/she-the-people/wp/2014/10/29/the-story-behind-that-10-hours-of-walking-in-nyc-viral-street-harassment-video/?tid=collaborative_1.0_strip_1

Fact is there have been MANY videos like this made before Bliss did his. Hundreds. Not sure why Bliss's got so much more attention than most of the prior ones. Perhaps because it is edited down to something short which condenses all the remarks.

Minnesota - Cards project -- many videos. A woman in MN videos and hands cards to her harrassers while confronting them about their behavior. This one has 750,000 views:


From the UK:


In Egypt:


"Stop Telling Women to Smile" by Tatyana Fazlalizadeh




And finally, a link to the cards against harrassment site:
http://www.cardsagainstharassment.com/cards.html

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