The annals of catcalling
Where to begin this week?
We were so pleased by the CNN article covering Holly Kearl's thesis research last week...and where did it go? Perhaps not surprisingly, Kearl had to go on the defensive as a sick amount of blogging men and women somehow found it difficult to believe that women don't like or want to be harassed. I guess we don't walk the same streets or live in the same imbalanced world as these hostile folks.
Whole lotta links, almost not worth visiting except to admire and add to Kearl's continuous defense of her work, and to view the occassional apologies that follow people's wack judgments of her:
Today's Miss Conduct's blog in the Boston Globe is one of the more insightful, balanced pieces that has shown up in the wake of CNN's report. At least someone in our city knows what's up. NPR also covered Boston's MBTA anti-harassment campaign, though with some curious omissions and a focus on the "grope patrol," plainclothes cops who ride dem trains and try to mitigate dangerous situations. But, they awkwardly note, "We're not looking to discourage guys from talking to women." Um, okay.
And last but not least, Salon.com Broadsheet writer Tracy Clark-Flory talks high tech street harassment in Saudi Arabia.
We were so pleased by the CNN article covering Holly Kearl's thesis research last week...and where did it go? Perhaps not surprisingly, Kearl had to go on the defensive as a sick amount of blogging men and women somehow found it difficult to believe that women don't like or want to be harassed. I guess we don't walk the same streets or live in the same imbalanced world as these hostile folks.
Whole lotta links, almost not worth visiting except to admire and add to Kearl's continuous defense of her work, and to view the occassional apologies that follow people's wack judgments of her:
- a tricky link from the Word Warrior - but a good follow-up
- WTF is MTV on?
- hates street harassment/doesn't love HollaBackNYC
- Texas hater who also appears to be a woman
- the standard "but you'd like harassment from hot men" response
- Holly calls out some wack assumptions
- someone who's on it
- run-of-the-mill angry male privilege
- hating on the research (somehow forgetting Kearl's work was approved by her MA advisors)
- a reasonable post
- obligatory Feministing thread
- a real idiot
- a rad commentary (if a less enlightened comment section).
Today's Miss Conduct's blog in the Boston Globe is one of the more insightful, balanced pieces that has shown up in the wake of CNN's report. At least someone in our city knows what's up. NPR also covered Boston's MBTA anti-harassment campaign, though with some curious omissions and a focus on the "grope patrol," plainclothes cops who ride dem trains and try to mitigate dangerous situations. But, they awkwardly note, "We're not looking to discourage guys from talking to women." Um, okay.
And last but not least, Salon.com Broadsheet writer Tracy Clark-Flory talks high tech street harassment in Saudi Arabia.
Labels: feminism, public space, safety, street harassment, women
posted @ 11:00
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It's nice to have your support through all this! And thanks for the good work you all do at Holla Back Talk and HollaBack Boston to continually point out issues relating to street harassment and to give people a forum where they can share their experiences. You're making the world a better place!
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