Earlier this week, anti-street harassment group Hollaback teamed up
with video producer Rob Bliss Creative to show what women face when they merely
walk down the streets of New York. Their intent was to draw attention to the
cause by going viral. And they absolutely nailed it.
After 10 hours of filming, the crew captured more than 100 instances of
verbal harassment, and that’s not even counting some of the winks and whistles.
With a little help from just about every news website out there, the video
garnered more than 13 million hits in just two days.
In case you missed it, here it is:
Criticism was soon to follow. Slate called them out for not including white men and focusing on blacks and Latinos.
Bliss addressed that on Reddit, where he posted, “We got a fair amount of white
guys, but for whatever reason, a lot of what they said was in passing, or off
camera.”
Then, of course, along came the expected Internet ugliness. As the
comments started piling up by the tens of thousands, the woman in the video began to get rape threats.
“Sadly, the 1% of people that harass women on the street have the
ability to do it online as well,” Bliss told the Observer. “It just further drives home how much of
an issue this is.”
Of course, the topic is no laughing matter. But try telling that to the
guys over on “Funny Or Die,” who quickly answered with a spoof of
what it means to be a man in the same situation.
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