{"id":46172,"date":"2014-10-30T11:43:05","date_gmt":"2014-10-30T17:43:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/10\/30\/as-the-sexist-yahoo-contingent-demonstrates-how-sexist-and-yahooish-they-are.html"},"modified":"2014-11-05T09:10:34","modified_gmt":"2014-11-05T16:10:34","slug":"as-the-sexist-yahoo-contingent-demonstrates-how-sexist-and-yahooish-they-are","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/10\/30\/as-the-sexist-yahoo-contingent-demonstrates-how-sexist-and-yahooish-they-are.html","title":{"rendered":"As the sexist yahoo contingent demonstrates how sexist and yahooish they are"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jeez, people, do you really want<\/i> folk to despair for the human race? Because making rape threats (and\/or rape imprecations) about a woman who had the audacity to share on video the number of catcalls and unsolicited "Hey, mama, looking good!" comments she received while walking around NYC … is pretty despair-inducing.<\/p>\n

The video is in the article. And I'll admit my first thought was, "Well, heck, if a guy wants to complement her on how she looks, what's the problem with that?" But the sheer repetition, the sheer intrusiveness,<\/i> overwhelmed that first thought pretty quickly, even if you ignore the guys who started walking alongside her, or pressing her for conversation. The question is not why should she be offended by a stray complement or two, but why does she have to deal with an endless string of whistles, shouts, solicitations, greetings, or observations about her physical form from people whom she's simply walking past.<\/p>\n

That even presenting this information makes someone the target for the kind of language and cursing directed toward her demonstrates that the social problem she's documenting is a lot worse than the video presents.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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\nThe woman who made a video about catcalling is already getting rape threats<\/a><\/span>
\nRoberts documented all the harassment she receives as a woman walking in New York City — and received rape threats for speaking up.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Jeez, people, do you really want folk to despair for the human race? Because making rape threats (and\/or rape imprecations) about a woman who had the audacity to share on video the number of catcalls and unsolicited "Hey, mama, looking good!" comments she received while walking around NYC … is pretty despair-inducing. The video is … Continue reading “As the sexist yahoo contingent demonstrates how sexist and yahooish they are”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,348],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-women"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":41407,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/03\/12\/on-being-consciously-non-sexist.html","url_meta":{"origin":46172,"position":0},"title":"On Being Consciously Non-Sexist","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 12-Mar-14 3:10pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Or non-racist, or non-[fill-in-the-blank]ist ...There seem to be three levels here that the label of sexism (to choose an ism - and just to further simplify, we'll make it sexism against women) covers:1. 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