i like this
I walk to BART every morning, and of late there's been a man who stands on the corner near the station and as I go by he says "Good morning" in English and then in a lower voice he says something like "es muy bonita" in Spanish. The first day it happened I didn't hear the Spanish afterthought; the second time it seemed relatively benign, but by the third time I was channeling "creep." I've been relatively lucky in that I've hardly been subjected to the kind of harrassment and assault that many urban women are, but I'm all for accountability, and I love that women now have some tangible recourse besides telling their friends. Fuck liability. If you're a perv in public, then women have the right to monitor you.
posted by Carla at 10:54 AM
2 Comments:
Oh, this is excellent, Carla. It can be so intimidating when you're subjected to these Neanderthal creeps and this is such an empowering response. Very cool.
reminds me of the women who get jitters, sexual innuendoes, and cat-calls from male workers on lunch when they pass a construction site. It's that "man in the street" that makes women feel uncomfortable in public spaces. Ironically, I know a female construction worker, I wonder what it's like for her, on the "otherside of the fence," whether she keeps that "male behavior" of coworkers in-check, or whether she is subject to the same harassment, despite the "lifestyle change" to fit in as "one of the guys." I really sympathize with such women, I am a man who works in a "non-traditional field" and take shit from other men for wearing an apron, I get called a "queer/fag" since I don't live by the same norm of "masculinity."
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