#NotJustHello - Street harassment stories told on Twitter

[KitSileya]

Right now on twitter, there's a growing list of tweets where women tell about their experiences with street harassment. The hashtag, #NotJustHello, was started by Mikki Kendall (@Karnythia) as

"Karnythia and ReinaDeLaIsla were engaged in a conversation with multiple Twitter users about a subject that is increasingly familiar to Internet denizens: street harassment and how to combat it. Apparently prompted by a recurrence of conversation around writer Tariq Nasheed, who advocates a "player" lifestyle, Karnythia tweeted the following Friday night:
@Karnythia: Also can we stop pretending street harassment is about dating? It's never that. Never. If it was you wouldn't be screaming profanity"

http://www.dailydot.com/news/not-just-hello-hashtag-calls-out-street-harassment/

Go to twitter and read - very courageous women telling their experiences.

[Warpy]

1. Excellent read

and it's a great explanation why so many of us over 50 are thrilled with the invisibility cloak we got handed when we started menopoause.

[KitSileya]

2. Definitely. Men need to read these, and shut up about "lost flirting opportunities"

Of course, I have had a woman poster here on DU tell me that "You are only a sex object when you allow it to happen to you." And "Sure there are the usual jerks who are out of line. Usually, someone brings them into line, quickly. I don't know what awful misogynist world you live in unless it's in some religious compound somewhere." When I told her of some of my experiences of street harassment. So the usual suspects here on DU won't be very supportive, but I think that real feminists are doing a wonderful job with these hashtags, not to mention those of us who bring these feminist perspectives to DU.

[redqueen]

3. I've seen older women here saying they miss that kind of attention.

And advising other women that someday they'll miss it, too.

Sad, really.

[Warpy]

4. They're probably the kind who stnad up when a man enters the room!

I can't imagine missing men ASSuming that women owe them anything.

Not a conversation, not our bodies, and not a second of our precious time, felllas.

Men might as well shut the hell up. After all, a woman who's been hooted at, catcalled, and insulted with sexual slurs all day is not going to be interested in her partner when she gets home.

If more men made that connection, the harassment would stop. They'd stop it.

[KitSileya]

5. Well, there's this thing called Stockholm syndrome.....

And I think quite a number of women have it to greater or lesser degree.

However, I don't think anything can beat the 'I fought this harassment when I was younger, but you young women are mentally ill for experiencing it and bring it on yourself' of the exchange I quoted earlier.

[redqueen]

6. Yeah that response doesn't make sense.

Nobody can bring objectification on themselves.

But then victim-blaming makes ignorant people feel better. Less like "victims" because that's a terrible, awful, helpless, weak thing to be. Obv.

[Squinch]

7. The comments section is pretty gross. Same old derailing crap.

And then there's this from a guy describing how another man tried to train him in how to catcall:

"He told me look for a ring, an ankle chain, something that flagged her as taken so that I wouldn't disrespect her man."