what do you think about street harassment?

[girl germs]

when i'm walking down the street i want to feel safe. i don't want any shit from any guys. i don't want someone calling me "mamacita". i don't want any catcalls. i just want to walk down the street, feel safe, and go on walking without getting any shit. it really pisses me off when some complete and total stranger tells me to smile for him.

i know...I KNOW, that it happens to every girl and women out there. i see it everyday. it happens to me. it sucks. i just wish the streets were safer for women because right now, they definitely aren't.

what do the girls here think? how do you usually respond to street harassment? tell me. tell me. tell me.

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[adolescentmasturbator]

Tell him your name is Bill.


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[girl germs]

i always tell them to suck my dick.

most men are surprised when they get a response from me. it's like they expect me to walk by without doing anything about it.

fuck that shit.

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[Lisa Croft]

GG... I know exactly what you mean. I'd like to get through one day without a filthy immigrant coming up to me with his gold teeth saying "What's poppin', boo?". There have been days where I've sworn that the next guy to call me "mami" was gonna take his big gold chain home in a dark place. However, it can (rarely) be flattering. It's nice to be complimented, but leering and whistling are just plain stupid. Though I wonder sometimes... why do they continue to do it? I mean, it must have worked before, otherwise they wouldn't keep doing it. Are there couples out there celebrating their 50th anniversary, and the wife says "You know, honey... I knew this was true love the day you yelled out your car window 'ay, mama. you got bangin' titties!'" The world may never know.

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[TooCute]

I usually just ignore it.

The best was one time down on
8th street maybe, I'm walking
along and some tool starts
following me. He's all, "hey
baby, yeah, yeah I've seen you
before, yeah, you know...
topless, in those porno mags"
LOL I almost died laughing so
I ducked into a shoe store :)

Aya





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[Sunrisa]

men are so funny.
as long as they keep their distance, dont do the cat calling at night..i can ignore them.

but i have never (!) dated a man who hit on me first...
eeewwwww.


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[EffMeBoobs]

I usually just pretend I'm deaf. Then when they get closer to scream louder in my ear thinking that will make me hear them,(which is pretty funny because a deaf person still can't your screams..lol) I spit in their face and say "Have a nice day deek!"

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[HordeKing1]

Disgusting and horrible. I recomend carrying a police whistle to use if anyone gets a bit too close. Mace doesn't hurt either.

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[girl germs]

a cheer by the lovely radical cheerleaders:

harrasment
i know what your ass meant!
and thats harrasment!
P-U-S-S-Y!!!!
forget for a moment whats between my thighs!
T-I-T-T-Y!!!
That ain't no alibi!!
YOU UGLY
You ugly mr.harraser
YOU UGLY,
AND YOU BETTER FUCKIN STOP!

this cracks me up everytime it's performed. a friend of mine wrote it. i'm not sure if it makes complete sense, but i like it.

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[TomPoo]

Hold on a minute!!!!!!

This technique doesn't work?!?!?!?!?!

Holy Shit... next thing, your going to tell me that honking my horn at you is a turn off too!!!



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[girl germs]

this song (by the band heavens to betsy) completely describes how i feel about street harassment:

you follow me on the fuckin street
you make me feel like a piece of meat
you think i don't know what war is
now i'm the terrorist see how it feels

i'm going to kill you
i'll cut you up gouge out your eyes
i'm going to kill you
i'm not your prey i'll make you die

on my mouth there is a gag
everything i say is wrong
you laugh at me and knock me down
well your turn is coming around

and i'm not kidding
this time i've had it just about to here
i'm not kidding
i threaten everything you hold dear

you follow me on the fuckin street
you make me feel like a piece of meat
you think i don't know what war is
now i'm the terrorist see how it feels

*add the screaming girl vocals and that's exactly how i feel.


it makes me pretty fuckin mad.

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[girl germs]

<i>"I usually just pretend I'm deaf. Then when they get closer to scream louder in my ear thinking that will make me hear them,(which is pretty funny because a deaf person still can't your screams..lol) I spit in their face and say "Have a nice day deek!""</i>

sometimes i pretend i can't here them, too. when they say something to me, i go, "what? what? what?"

in a low voice: "damn, you sure do look nice"

"what?"

"i said you looked nice today"

"what?"

"i SAID you looked nice today"

"what?"

"AH, nevermind"

it's pretty funny.

now, i don't mind if someone tells me that i look nice on a certain day...but if you're a stranger on the street and i don't know you, just don't give me any compliments...not in a way that objectifies me in any way, shape, or form.

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[Gwen]

I live in a town where many people hire immigrants to tend to their lawn & construction needs (im not trying to be funny, its true) and at the end of everynite they ride home in the back of pickup trucks. In the summer time it's so uncomfortable because if you get stuck to the side of them at a light or behind them they leer and laugh and talk in spanish (becuase they think i dont know what Im saying). Anyways on to my point: I ususally just flip them off and then proceed to crack on the size of their junk in spanish then I speed off. Its not very effective in stopping it, but it makes me feel better to make them feel like a jerk

If you put a tin can to your ear, you can hear the subway - deez

[Sheeplovr]

iv never noticed this before only in movies and in tv im going to look for it now

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[Pootertoot]

Gwen, they're sexually repressed. Do you know how hard it is to get any when you live in a one bedroom apartment with forty other family members?

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[angrymissy]

Being that I live in Mt. Mexico (i mean mt. kisco), I deal with this every day. When I was 14 I even had some guy try to stick his tounge down my throat at the train station (luckily I had a lot of my guy friends around to take care of <i>that</i>) anyway, my new favorite thing to do is to go to <a href="http://babelfish.altavista.com">this website</a>. It will roughly translate almost any phrase to a bunch of other languauges! Observe:

<b>Stop yelling at me you filthy piece of crap before I call immigration on your ass. your mother eats shit and you have a tiny tiny penis. have a great day.</b>

En Espanol
<i>Pare el gritar en mi de usted pedazo asqueroso de crap antes de que llame la inmigracion en su asno. su madre come mierda y usted tiene un pene minisculo minisculo. tenga un gran dia. </i>

or (for those damn german catcallers)...
<I>
Stoppen Sie, an mir Sie zu kreischen schmutziges St�ck crap, bevor ich Immigration auf Ihrem Esel benenne. Ihre Mutter iát Scheiáe und Sie haben einen kleinen kleinen Penis. haben Sie einen groáen Tag. </i>

It doesn't translate it exactly, but you sure get your point across. the word crap doesn't translate all that well either. well, i still have my pepper spray keychain if it gets out of hand :)



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[girl germs]

yet another song that expresses how harassment makes me feel: (this one is by a band called submission hold)

tuesday aftertoon at the stock exchange part 2

early afternoon smog
cigarette soaked men in suits
crane their necks at every passing woman
she walks by, stares at the ground
same thing, ever lunch hour, same thing
elevator eyeballs
unsafe ratio

ladies first. he holds the door.
it's proper manners to stare
at your secretary's ass
same thing every lunch hour
same thing

she walks by
fists clenched, fists clenched.
and she dreams of smashing them
through that smug pigs ugly smile.
and she dreams of smashing them
she dreams of smashing
she dreams

*add the screaming girl vocals

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