I have, in many cities. In fact, I've seen much worse. Many female friends of mine have been harassed like this, often with much stronger language.
And of course...
the video is an example of this type of behavior. Don't you feel a bit more educated now?
Or, it's a problem that is common in many areas, notably dense environments (where women happen to walk past more men in an hour), and is not limited to specific cultures.
I'm sorry, but this is a silly argument. It's not like they sent you a DVD in the mail with your name on it. You came across the video. If you sympathize with women who are frequently put in this kind of situation, you have the option to do something about it.
To be clear,
I am not marketing anything. I have no affiliation whatsoever with Hollaback, just pointing you to their website.
The organization also wasn't targeting upper and middle class audiences. There is nothing in their materials which makes any such suggestion, and they repeatedly state that this problem is not limited by location, race, ethnicity, culture. It also doesn't depend on how the woman is dressed, whether she reacts or ignores them. All they did was put the video out there, the media picked it up, and as a result they've gotten millions of views, far beyond what they expected.
First off, for someone to even be made aware of this video in the first place, a few rather specific variables have to fall into place. Spreading the video's message essentially pre-supposes that it's audience have an inclination to surf the kinds of sites that would circulate the material in question (or be acquainted with a social circle that would), or have access to the internet at all to begin with. All of those factors serve to skew the audience it is capable of influencing rather heavily towards the Middle and Upper classes.
To be honest, I would be rather surprised if this garners much any attention whatsoever outside of the usual "echo-chambers" of media punditry, or the social media pages of Left-leaning college students and political firebrands prone to surf partisan websites.
The simple fact of the matter, as I noted before, is that none of those groups were ever really "the problem" here to begin with. As such, this whole endeavor can ultimately be seen to constitute little more than a lot of "sound and fury signifying nothing."
Secondly, as I've asked you earlier, but you declined to reply, what do you expect
ME, personally, to do about this "problem?" What course of action are you suggesting that I, or any other conscientious man, take?
I can whole-heartedly agree with you that men who harass women are classless reprobates until Hell freezes over. For that matter, I absolutely do. I would never dream of doing such a thing.
However, it won't change a damn thing, as I was never "part of the problem" here to begin with. :shrug:
Ah, I see. So women are pregnant all the time, and want to clean stuff, and this inherently restricts their career preferences. Got it. :lamo
How does the nesting instinct, which only really kicks in well into pregnancy, preclude women from working as police officers, or doctors, or scientists, or computer programmers?
Women are, almost as a general rule, far more interested in "domestic pursuits" than most men would ever
dream of being. This really cannot be said be strictly "cultural" either, as it is a phenomena which can be observed to exist almost universally, across regional, cultural, and ethnic boundaries.
Given that we already
know that women possess "nesting instincts" in more extreme forms when their hormones are in full kick, does it not also stand to reason that they very likely have similar instincts at play the rest of the time as well?
Does it really seem likely to you that
every culture on Earth simply happened to stumble upon the same idea, completely by coincidence, without any natural inclinations being involved whatsoever?
Yea... Get real. :roll:
Do the number of women exceed the number of men in jobs like dental hygienists, speech therapy pathologists, paralegals, teachers, physical therapists, and doctor's assistants because of a nesting instinct, that only really kicks in well into pregnancy?
Did I say that women could not do those jobs? No.
Did I say that women
should not do those jobs? Again, no.
What I said was that, on an innate level, women and men tend to have different aptitudes. This very often serves to shape what hobbies, professions, and socio-cultural trappings happen to catch their interests.
Frankly, this isn't really even up for debate. It's not an "opinion." It is
objectively true, on the basis of raw statistics if nothing else.
Men flock to some fields, and avoid others. The same is true of women.
Other than your ideological insistence that men and women
MUST be the same in all things (regardless of whether they even
want to be in the first place or not, apparently :roll: ), why is this a problem?
Is there any particular reason we
need a female Rambo, or a male Martha Steward, other than irrational political interest?