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eridani

(51,907 posts) Mon Mar 10, 2014, 08:46 PM Mar 2014

Here Are Some Posters For The Men Who Tell Women What To Do Or What They Think Of Them In The Street

http://www.upworthy.com/here-are-some-posters-for-the-men-who-tell-women-what-to-do-or-what-they-think-of-them-in-the-street?c=upw1

Every day, women are harassed in the street simply for being women. In other words: Every time we step out the house, we run the risk of being shouted at, catcalled, or assaulted — usually in broad daylight. FUN!

Brooklyn-based artist Tatyana Fazlalizadeh wanted to take women's voices and faces and plaster them big and bold in the very same places where this takes place. She's using street art to address gender-based street harassment by taking a place where women feel uncomfortable and turning it into a place where we cannot be ignored.

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Here Are Some Posters For The Men Who Tell Women What To Do Or What They Think Of Them In The Street (Original Post) eridani Mar 2014 OP

In all honesty ... 1StrongBlackMan Mar 2014 #1

There are definitely different rules for strangers on the street n/t eridani Mar 2014 #2

This I know ... 1StrongBlackMan Mar 2014 #3

The point is to intimidate and display dominance, not to flirt or flatter or anything else. redqueen Mar 2014 #4

it is mercuryblues Mar 2014 #5

Kick! sheshe2 Mar 2014 #6

1StrongBlackMan

(31,849 posts)

1. In all honesty ...

Reply to eridani (Original post)

Mon Mar 10, 2014, 09:31 PM

Mar 2014

I call my wife 7 of the 9 terms in the second picture. But then again, she's my wife and it took me a relationship before I used any of them.

eridani

(51,907 posts)

2. There are definitely different rules for strangers on the street n/t

Reply to 1StrongBlackMan (Reply #1)

Mon Mar 10, 2014, 09:51 PM

Mar 2014

1StrongBlackMan

(31,849 posts)

3. This I know ...

Reply to eridani (Reply #2)

Mon Mar 10, 2014, 10:41 PM

Mar 2014

I would never call anyone out of their name before I have developed a relationship with them.

I'm that guy that asks my male friends, "What made you think that approach would make you attractive to any woman? And really, any woman that would respond positively to that cat-call ... My advice would be, 'Run far, far away from that woman'."

redqueen

(115,103 posts)

4. The point is to intimidate and display dominance, not to flirt or flatter or anything else.

Reply to 1StrongBlackMan (Reply #3)

Tue Mar 11, 2014, 07:27 AM

Mar 2014

It is a display of status. Men would not dare talk that way to anyone who could do much at all about it.

It is a way to reassert their dominance and power as men qua men. To reinforce their own sense of status, and also to reinforce this hierarchical (patriarchal) power imbalance in the eyes of all the men and women (and children) who witness these displays.

mercuryblues

(14,532 posts)

5. it is

Reply to 1StrongBlackMan (Reply #3)

Tue Mar 11, 2014, 09:28 AM

Mar 2014

a behavior that feeds into each other creating toxic relationships. It enables both parties to broad brush that all men/women are ...[fill in the blank]. Let's face it, If your friends did not get at least some positive feedback, they would discontinue the cat-calling.

Even women on this board have stated they see nothing wrong with cat-calling. It makes them feel noticed/sexy/desirable. IDK, it always made me feel unsafe to walk to my destination. It always made me feel that if someone did try to harm me, that type of man would laugh it off and keep moving. Hell of a lesson at 13, which was reinforced into adulthood.

So when men complain that women can be rude to their advances, this has something to do with it.

sheshe2

(83,789 posts)

6. Kick!

Reply to eridani (Original post)

Tue Mar 11, 2014, 10:57 AM

Mar 2014

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