Effects Of Street Harassment Of Women

The article the harm that has no name truly shows the rot that has happened to our society, and how people don’t have respect for women at all. The writer talks about street harassment of women and what women go through when they are walking down the streets, be it in the city, the neighborhood or anywhere. Street harassment of women is defined as verbal and nonverbal markers by men towards women. Another term that caught my attention is sexual terrorism which is defined as “men’s systematic control and domination of women through actual and implied violence”.
There are many acts of street harassment; winking, whistling, honking and the sexual talks. This is very demeaning to women, and it scares women making them feeling uncomfortable and embarrassed. There are so many after effects of street harassment, women lose their self-esteem, confidence and feel like objects. This act can also lead to rape. Street harassment is used as a test to see how vulnerable the lady is, and the harasser will use it to their advantage and might go a step further to commit the heinous act. We can see how psychologically women are affected by this kind of harassment. …show more content…
However this is a way of encouraging the act and the perpetrators. Sometimes women tend to ignore it and assume it to be flattery or something else but this is a way of transferring the pain and making things to seem to be okay. One other fact that the writer talks about is the effect of street harassment on black women. This act reminds black women about slavery. During slavery times, black women were seen as sexual objects to satisfy white man’s desires. And to that effect when black women get harassed they still fell like slavery still exists even though it has been