The Queen of Hearts

Women empowered to “HollaBack” at pervy pedestrians

A growing number of women are standing up and letting men know that they don’t like being catcalled on the street. In fact, it can be viewed as a form of sexual harassment.

No woman likes hearing: “hey baby, what’s your name?” or “hey sexy” while they’re walking down the street on their own. Some women have even reported being groped in broad daylight by a men walking past.

A growing number of HollaBack blogs let women “holla back” by posting their stories of catcalls, propositions, gropes and indecent exposures, along with photos of their harassers if they happened to have a camera or camera phone handy.

HollaBackNYC, a blog started by a group of men and women in New York City last October, has inspired more than a dozen sister sites across the United States and Canada. Many women say street harassment is a national problem — and they’re not going to walk on and ignore it anymore.

Check it out:

Hollaback New York City
Hollaback San Francisco
Hollaback Boston
Hollaback Texas

posted by Queen of Hearts @ 05:04