Or he just didn't feel like walking around for 10 hours, and wanted to be honest about the amount of time that had elapsed :shrug:
You're making a lot of presumptions here, is my point. He never said that he thought men had it worse. As a matter of fact, there are actually noticeably fewer incidents on his tape than there were on the female version.
Where the issue of harassment is concerned, that depends upon a couple of different things.
How are you defining it, first off?
Secondly, the company one keeps and the environment they are in play roles as well.
People tend to be a bit more "polite" in general here in the South, so it tends to be something you don't see especially often (in my experience, anyway). I also tend to avoid seedy areas and seedy people.
That might explain why I haven't seen all that many examples of it.
Well, ok. I have my eye cocked a bit at this video nonetheless, if for no other reason than that it doesn't reflect
how men usually are harassed either, along with the other weirdness.
How am I defining it? A few things: pretty much all catcalls, anything obviously objectifying, like the person is walking around for your benefit. Anything sexual, obviously. Anything homophobic.
I gotta completely disagree. The fact that you think that shows how small your sample size is, as someone who doesn't belong to a male risk group, and obviously isn't a woman either.
Disagree about the South. I think the South rides the line between compliment and harassment a little closer than the North does. If you get that they're Southern and just pay attention to the context clues, you can learn how to adjust to that, because they just don't see the boundary as clearly and they usually aren't trying to harass you. But when they do harass you, it is far, far more extreme. The South is also where I saw both cases of hate speech harassment.
Disagree about your little "she's asking for it" thing too. "Seediness" has nothing to do with it either. Like all predatory-type people, it has nothing to do with what you're doing, except insofar as they think you're afraid of them, which is what they enjoy. In reality, all the things you would
think would reduce harassment seem to increase it. For example, dressing down? Increases harassment, in my consistent experience. Staying to the main street? More harassment, especially from cars.
And why do I think that is? Because the kinds of guys who harass women are looking for someone who will be easily to beat down -- someone who already seems to be half-way there. Someone who looks like they're trying to avoid attention. That's their favorite target.
My leg up on most women in the confidence department is why I think I get harassed less when alone than I do with other women of a similar age to myself. I was just ridiculously lucky in my upbringing, and that gives me an advantage in a lot of ways.
It's not my female friends' "fault" that they weren't so lucky. Most women aren't.