Following on from the brilliant work that the UK's Laura Bates does with Everyday Sexism, and other groups such as Hollaback! and Stop Telling Women To Smile, a woman in Minneapolis has found an effective way to confront their catcallers.
Flipping the gaze on to the men shouting at her, Lindsey goes around downtown Minneapolis on her day-to-day, going up to men who shouted at her in the streets and asking them why they did it, secretly filming their reactions. She told Buzzfeed: 'I am genuinely interested in what place this is coming from.'
'The theme I hear the most often is that they truly, genuinely think it’s a compliment, and they are shocked. If that is true, then simply telling people it’s not a compliment may go a long way.'
She films them to redress the balance of shame: 'The filming provides them a platform to embarrass themselves in a way that they’ve already embarrassed me.'
And you can see videos of some of the responses on her YouTube channel, including this one which sees a man called Jared saying to her: 'I'm from Ohio, where I come from we holler at women. I'm sorry if that offends you, but you shouldn't feel that way because women are put on this earth to satisfy a man. If she feels offended, she should never have been born.'
As well as filming the men, she's also got hooked on that idea that harassment isn't a compliment, so hands them Cards Against Harassment, business card-size reminders to men that it's never a good thing to shout at women in the street just because they are there. Each card might have a different message – that 'someone simply walking/jogging/biking in your line of sight isn't an invitation for you to comment on how they look,' or 'So, you like how I look? Do you know what I like? Walking down the street without getting my appearance commented on by total strangers' – but they all come with the same tagline: 'It's not a compliment. It's harassment.'
Our only fear is, with so many women harassed streets across the world on a daily basis, if printing warnings and reminders on pieces of card to hand out to douchebags is the solution, where does that leave the rainforests?
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This article originally appeared on The Debrief.