#streetharrassment

France is to introduce on-the-spot fines for sexual harassment in public places and lengthen the time-limit for filing rape complaints as part of new legislation against sexual violence. . . . . https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/mar/21/france-plans-on-the-spot-fines-for-sexual-harassment-in-public . . . . #catcalling #cat #harrassment #streetharrassment #femenist #letterstoacatcaller #nohollabackgirl #typography (at Paris, France)

‘…let me introduce myself…’ ‘Excuse me. I have to go.’ ‘But I’ve been waiting for you to stop speaking on your phone…’ When I looked back, he disappeared. How to react when strangers have been not only catcalling you but also stalking you for 20 minutes? Somehow strange people can smell of emotional weaknesses. So when you’re positive and your mood is stable there’s 99,9% these situations won’t happen to you. That’s my observation, what do you guys think? Have you had the same experiences? . . Big shout out to @decafhue for contributing to this project! Her work is so unique and amazing and you should be checking it out right now!! . . . . . . . . #catcalling #cat #harrassment #streetharrassment #femenist #letterstoacatcaller #nohollabackgirl #typography #lettering #type #handlettering  #design #graphics #dailytype #addicttolettering #TYxCA #digitalart #typegang #50words #typespot #typegang #typespire #script #gradiant #tuesday #tuesdaymorning #typetopia #typographists #typespot #bftype #goodtype #typegency (at Michigan)

A man in the street told me I was disgusting & I was so happy to have repulsed a man that I smiled & said thank you! Idk what I did but it's working!! 😂😂😂 #StreetHarrassment #ByeAshy #GoAway (at Bronx, New York)

Can we label cat calling as an objectivication? Can we compare it to telling cheesy pick up lines? Maybe. I got off the plan in NYC for my very first adult vacation. I got in the cab and departed to my friend’s Manhattan apartment. Of course I was caught up in the city’s splendor while obviously listening to “New York” by Frank Sanatra on repeat. As I stepped out of the cab, I was catcalled. Honestly, I didn’t think anything of it. I felt a little flattered. Being in the Big Apple, I didn’t expect anything less and of course it was a construction worker. But as I thought about it, I didn’t feel threatened or in danger. I wasn’t offended. I’ve only been cat called a couple other times but I’ve never felt like I was in a hostile situation. On the flip side I know that there are bad people in the world and how it can be dangerous for a young woman to walk alone on any city’s streets without being aware of her surroundings. A girl should know how to protector herself. But I don’t think I personally would go as far as to say each and every boy who has cat called a woman has done it in a threatening manner or with intent to objectify that woman. Fact of the matter is we don’t live in the early to mid 1900’s anymore. A man is not going to come up to me with charm and charisma to tell me how he thinks my eyes are the color of the sea or the way I walk makes me look to be an angel floating on clouds. If a real dude came up to me in 2018 to tell me those things I would definitely be weirded out. So what do girls want? Even if you’re a feminist, you still want to be found attractive and be flattered. Right? So what is a dude who thinks I’m attractive supposed to say or do? First scenario: I’m sitting in a bar and a guy sits down next to me, tells me a cheesy pick up line, smells of cologne, introduces himself, and offers buys me a drink = sure, maybe a wee creepy. But 97% of nice guys don’t have the courage to do that and don’t know how to talk to girls anyway. So then where does that leave them? Second scenario: I’m sitting in a bar and a boy comes up to me, invades my personal space, smells of booze, tells me an inappropriate pick up line, and offers to buy me a drink = go away creep. This is 1% of guys who have the courage to do that. The other 1% are the really bad guys who take things to another level. These are the stalkers, the followers, name callers, and obscene gesture guys. These are ones we focus on. These are the men who have given that 97% of nice guys a bad rep for choosing not to talk to girls so that way the avoid being labeled as a creep. I think it’s naive to think that there isn’t a difference between good and bad cat calls. Obviously a girl can tell when it’s some rando being disgusting, but aren’t we supposed to take into perspective the guys who just may not know how to give a girl a compliment? I don’t think we should immediately jump to conclusions but we should definitely be able to read the situation and stay alert. So do I think cat calling overall is a means for objectivication? No. However, I do think it presents an importation conversation that we should be having between both men and women.

How young were you when someone catcalled you for the first time? . . . Check out the links below for statistics and catcall stories. . . https://www.telegraph.co.uk/women/womens-life/11637697/Catcalling-Women-sexually-harassed-on-the-street-from-puberty.html https://www.ihollaback.org/read-stories/ . . . . #catcalling #cat #harrassment #streetharrassment #femenist #letterstoacatcaller #nohollabackgirl #typography (at Michigan)

"What a Crazy Woman Thinks About While Walking Down the Street She tries to walk not too fast and not too slow. She doesn’t want to attract any attention. She pretends she doesn’t hear the whistles and catcalls and lewd comments. Sometimes she forgets and leaves her house in a skirt or a tank top because it’s a warm day and she wants to feel warm air on her bare skin. Before long, she remembers. She keeps her keys in her hand, three of them held between her fingers, like a dull claw. She makes eye contact only when necessary and if a man should catch her eye, she juts her chin forward, makes sure the line of her jaw is strong. When she leaves work or the bar late, she calls a car service and when the car pulls up to her building, she quickly scans the street to make sure it’s safe to walk the short distance from the curb to the door. She once told a boyfriend about these considerations and he said, “You are completely out of your mind.” She told a new friend at work and she said, “Honey, you’re not crazy. You’re a woman." . — Roxane Gay (Difficult Women) . . #catcalling #cat #harrassment #streetharrassment #femenist #letterstoacatcaller #nohollabackgirl #typography

"Women incorporate the values of the male sexual objectifiers within themselves. Catharine MacKinnon calls this being "thingified" in the head (MacKinnon, 1989). They learn to treat their own bodies as objects separate from themselves. Bartky explains how this works: the wolf whistle sexually objectifies a woman from without with the result that, ``"The body which only a moment before I inhabited with such ease now floods my consciousness. I have been made into an object'' (Bartky, 1990, p. 27). She explains that it is not sufficient for a man simply to look at the woman secretly, he must make her aware of his looking with the whistle. She must, "be made to know that I am a 'nice piece of ass': I must be made to see myself as they see me'' (p. 27). The effect of such male policing behaviour is that, "Subject to the evaluating eye of the male connoisseur, women learn to evaluate themselves first and best'" (Bartky, 1990, p. 28). Women thus become alienated from their own bodies." -Sheila Jeffreys (Beauty and Misogyny: Harmful Cultural Practices in the West . . . . #catcalling #cat #harrassment #streetharrassment #femenist #letterstoacatcaller #nohollabackgirl #typography

Because street harassment is perhaps the clearest manifestation of the spectrum of sexism, sexual harassment and sexual assault that exists within our society. Yes, it starts out small; but allowing those ‘minor’ transgressions gives licence to the more serious ones, and eventually to all-out abuse. We’ve heard the same words and phrases crossing over and echoing and repeating, from women who are shouted at in the street to women who are assaulted and women who are victims of domestic violence in their own homes. The language is the same. And if we say it’s acceptable for men to assume power and ownership over women they don’t know verbally in public, then, like it or not, we’re also saying something much wider about gender relations – something that carries over into our personal relationships and our sexual exchanges. Because this is a line that doesn’t need to be blurred. It should be clear and simple. Take it from the women whose experiences started out with just a little ‘harmless’ street harassment – a sexual ‘compliment’ or a wolf whistle, or a ‘Hey baby’ – but then turned nasty, became full-blown attacks. Ask them what the problem is with a harmless bit of fun." — Laura Bates . . . . . #catcalling #cat #harrassment #streetharrassment #femenist #letterstoacatcaller #nohollabackgirl #typography (at Michigan)