"10 Hours of Walking In NYC As a Woman "

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pepharytheworm said:

curl-6 said:

"In breaking news, a man has pleaded guilty to saying hi to a woman in the street. This heinous crime has left the neighborhood shocked, and under new legislation, the man will now be placed on the sex offender's register. He was convicted of one count of greeting a female, and two counts of having a sex drive, and faces four years in jail.

According to experts, sexual harassment is at an all time high, with the average woman reporting receiving verbal greetings from at least three men daily."

"and in other news a guy said hi to a girl and she didn't respond and was then subsequently raped and murdered and  then blamed for not smiling and responding."

Hmm.... one news line is something that actually happens and the other isn't. When you see this all the time happening it's not to hard to imagine women feeling harassed by men saying hi on the street. Noone is asking to jail people saying hi.

I was speaking in hyperbole to illustrate just how perverse this line of thought can get if we keep broadening the definition of "harassment" to the degree that this video does. Where does it end? Will a guy approaching a girl at a club become harrassment? Will a guy trying to strike up a conversation with a girl at a bus stop become harrassment? In both cases, it would be if he persisted when rebuffed, but in this video, many of the men do not persist when she shows no interest. It cheapens the suffering of those who experience genuine harrassment to call being greeted in the street harrassment.