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Because I'm tired of getting catcalled and watching others in the street receive the same treatment, I decided to share some information with everyone in SG hoping that they can stop doing it and/or talk to their friends to make them reconsider their behavior.

Street harassment is unwanted and unwelcomed public attention, most often directed at women, which is demeaning and damaging. It’s not a private matter but one that should concern everyone.
If you have trouble empathising with strangers, then think about your mother, sister, or girlfriend. Would you enjoy watching people catcalling and telling them nasty things? How do you think they would feel about it?

On an average day I go out twice and I get at least one guaranteed catcall. On weekends or when I go out, for example to a club, it gets worse because groups of people feel more empowered to do so.

A few months ago I was walking with a friend and one guy said things and started to follow us. After a while it ended with me turning around and pepper-spraying his face, then running away in case he could fight back. This is the kind of violence it generates.
We had a rough rest of the day and were shaken up. I didn't enjoy doing that at all, but he had to be stopped. I also like to think the guy didn't enjoy it either.
So in the end, what did he achieve? Nothing.


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OK, I'm gonna clear this up since some people like to assume things just to blame me for defending myself.

A few months ago I was walking with a friend and one guy said things...

For the backward people, this was in june when I wasn't wearing "provocative shorts and t-shirts" clothes. These are the "nice compliments" I got amongst others i don't even want to repeat here and/or I want to forget:

hey girl nice butt
does your friend wanna F with me too?
hey reply bitch
come here lesbos!
GONNA EAT YOUR ASS

...and started to follow us.

Walked one block with that guy which was 1 meter away from us. He wasn't shouting from the other side of the street, he wasn't half a block away, he wasn't sitting in the sidewalk. He was right behind us.

...After a while it ended with me turning around and pepper-spraying his face, then running away in case he could fight back...

He got warned to leave us alone during the whole 1-block fast-paced walk. I didn't stop to "discuss" because I'm not a 1.9 meters 120kg guy, so I'm not putting my friend and I at risk at 8:30pm in the street.

You read the "You're not alone" thread?
Well, most of the stuff that I shared about me is linked directly to an experience related to this, but I wasn't walking with a friend and there were two guys instead of one following me. You can guess what happened next since I wasn't able to defend myself.

But of course, street harassment is harmless and nothing else can go wrong, nor it can trigger unhappy memories from past experiences.
Think a bit before judging others so quickly assuming they overreact when they feel in danger.~


I know I probably won't convince anyone catcalling to stop by posting this (it doesn't hurt to try), but if your friends or co-workers do it, you can persuade or talk to them and see if they get it. There's nothing worse than being in a group of friends and allowing them to act like idiots.

It's disgusting and demeaning, stop it. You're hurting people with your actions and makes you look like a fool.


❤️️ FAQ, in case you're gonna post one of these comments I get all the time.

- But some women like to be catcalled!
Yes, there's also men that like to get hit in the face with a hammer. So using the same logic, I should go out and hit all men with a hammer in hopes they enjoy it?

- Don't be so sensitive, ignore it.
No, it reaches a point it can't be ignored. It's not an isolated issue once per month or in certain situations so you can avoid it. It also affects me a lot depending on my mood, so when you feel like crap and you get catcalled, things get worse.

- So you want others to come to your rescue when some stranger catcalls you? That will end up with me getting in a fight!
I'm not asking people to fight for me, just them to stop doing it, spread the word, and discourage people in their group of friends from being disrespectful.

- If you don't want to get catcalled, dress appropriately!
1: Don't blame the victim.
2: I dress as I please. It's my body, not someone else's.
3: It doesn't matter if it's winter and I'm wearing a jacket, or summer with shorts and a t-shirt. Some people will be idiots anyway and say things.

- I bet you like it when a handsome guy catcalls you!
Irrelevant. I expect respect from everyone.

- What about men? They also get harassed!
I'm very aware guys also get harassed by both men and women, but this thread is about girls. Feel free to create another thread for that issue, and I will support it.

- So this is just a misandrist rant!
It's not. If you feel targeted by anything I said, then it's not because you're a man, it's because you actions ressemble what it's said here.

- Meh, it could be worse.
It could be worse, but it SHOULD be better. Also, normalizing this behavior makes it even more painful for victims.

- Women also catcall!
I never said they don't, but for each woman that catcalls me, i get 500 guys. So the issue at hand is the one I shared.

- This thread offends me!
That tells a lot about you. Log off, take your time, and think about it.

- This thread is inappropriate for SG, please close and delete it!
Go tell that to all other threads about awareness, politics, religion, sports, disasters, etc.


💙 Some info and articles:

Stop Street Harassment
Wikipedia definition
Documenting women's stories of street harassment
Why we need to take street harassment seriously
Dutch woman faces down her catcallers by posting selfies with them

💚 Videos:

Au bout de la rue (Court-métrage) - france
10 Hours of Walking in NYC as a Woman - usa
Woman is filmed walking London's streets for secret documentary - uk
Male actor dresses as woman to experience sexual harassment - egypt
Sons React to Their Moms Getting Catcalled - usa


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I have just read on the news about how cat-calling / harassment can escalate easily (and apparently very commonly) to physical violence. I am just surprised nobody at that French cafe tackled that guy or held him down, as would happen in a US cafe (where people would also be quick to dial 911 for police officers to arrest the guy). Is physical assault following cat-calling just fine in France? In those types of places, are disagreements perfectly okay to be settled via people mauling each other rather than using words and legal action?

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Hmm, I got blacklisted by someone shortly after posting my comment. Well, I am happy to avoid sharing my GA's with people who believe harassment is perfectly fine as long as the harasser looks male and the target looks female (including what they might consider 'sissy'-looking cis-gender men). I do know bullying has become a big issue in US, so much so that there are now classes and pamphlets being handed out. Yet how can children know bullying is wrong if their mothers, sisters, and female friends are freely bullied with this kind of harassment? So far, the mentality has basically been to just live with it, that it's a 'fact of life', though I believe it is slowly changing as people realize that kids who grow up bullying others also bully others as adults, and are able to do so more forcefully (guns, etc.).

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Is physical assault following cat-calling just fine in France?

no :)

i'm from italy and think that doesn't differs much from our cousins... our "view" in this matter it's older than yours, more... primitive? if you translate this thread to someone little old, here, pretty easy you'll get something like "what you're saying?! catcalling is a bad thing?? omg, listen to this!"

this goes also in court. happened, and will happen again, in france as in italy, that the judge made some "weird" when not "obscure" decisions...

future will be better, physiologically :D

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I saw the news on MSN but your source provides more details. Immediately, I thought of this thread but there wasn't much information. in the video we can see others approaching him and he seems to be gesturing to be sorry to those that approached him. Clearly, he did not to the lady.

Personally, i probably would be shocked and approach the lady and ask if she is alright rather than approaching the guy. Assault here isn't much of a huge case as of what I had read in local papers. Especially if you are a foreigner from the West part of the world as I am in the East Asia. I have read assaults and harassment here that only result to a fine, which I felt should include jail terms.

The law is flawed so is the execution of it. Although, please do not come and do something stupid. Hahaha

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yesterday, a man whistled after me out of his car window. but that's better than the usual "honk" while they drive next to me - since I always get a heart attack due to a fucking shock. 😲😲😲 it must be fun. 🙄
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I think this video fits pretty good in here (maybe adding it to the top?). I checked the last pages and haven't found it. So if anyone posted it already, sorry for double post.

Workplace Sexual Harassment: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO) July 29th 2018
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dHiAls8loz4

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This kinda sentiment only makes it harder for me to address the whole "hey I see a nice girl, what do I do now?" thing for me.

Which, is already kinda hard.

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Just take a moment to take the perspective of a woman who gets catcalled, ass-grabed, names-called and so on (you can talk to nearly every woman and she will confirm you that). Don't you think it's harder to be treated like an object than taking a moment to think about how to treat a person respectfully? It's really all about a respectful attitude and not forcing something. You see a nice girl, well, try smiling at her. If she smiles back: nice for you two. You can tell her your name and ask her a common question. If she doesn't: well, she may not think that you're nice. But that's not the end of the world, is it?

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I am from Brazil, and unfortunately this is a "normal" thing here. Lots of guys from all ages that think they can say whatever they want to a girl, because its a compliment. I am a man, but i am married to a very beautiful woman, so i know how hard it is to a girl walk alone sometimes. My wife has a lote of storys about that....
Hoping for better days, and to men be less assholes.
Sorry about my english.

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Se me permite dizer, seu inglês está ótimo e sua descrição também.

O maior problema do Brasil é a educação, sem dúvida isso resolveria todos os outros problemas.

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Olá! Obrigado =] Não tenho o costume de escrever em ingles, entao sempre me atrapalho um pouco quando preciso faze-lo hehe
E de fato, uma educação de qualidade faria uma diferença muito grande ao nosso país.

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