In October of 2014 Ross Bliss Creative (10 Hours of Walking in NYC as a Woman, 2014), in cooperation with the anti-catcalling organization Hollaback (Hollaback, 2014), released a video depicting catcalling in New York City which quickly went viral on the internet. In this 2 minute video a Caucasian actress was shown walking down several streets in the city receiving an incredible amount of harassment. If taken at face value this video gives the impression that women in New York are constantly under siege, barraged on all sides with behaviors ranging from a simple “Hey girl!” to men pacing them for minutes in a threatening manner. Several complaints have been made about this film, and it is important to explore the phenomenon of street harassment in a formal manner to assess its true extent.
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Although street harassment can include nonverbal behaviors such as following women or making lewd gestures, for the sake of simplicity we focused solely on comments which could be recorded via
Although street harassment can include nonverbal behaviors such as following women or making lewd gestures, for the sake of simplicity we focused solely on comments which could be recorded via