Early Friday morning in the Homewood neighborhood of Pittsburgh, 29-year-old Janese Jackson-Talton was at Cliff’s Bar when a 41-year-old man named Charles McKinney, according to KDKA, tried to approach her for a date. She refused. After the bar closed, McKinney followed her outside and shot her in the chest.
Against all odds—almost despite himself—a Delaware man has managed to marry the woman he loves. The couple first met when he yelled “Hey, hot stuff!” at her from the back of a garbage truck, then reunited two years later, when he insulted her shoes.
The subject of last October’s viral video about catcalling in New York City is suing its directors for “at least $500k,” reports TMZ. Shoshana Roberts, the woman who was filmed walking through the streets of NYC for 10 hours as men harassed her, has filed suit against director Rob Bliss and “anti-street harassment…
Many people have filmed secret catcalling videos—famously, this one—as a way to call attention to street harassment. Two intrepid New York women experimented by doing the catcalling themselves in what they referred to as “Drive-by street harassment.”
Sylvan Esso, the electro-fuzzed joint project of formerly-indie-folk artists Amelia Meath and Nicholas Sanborn, put out a debut album last year that I loved quite a bit; as the live following they’ve gathered can attest to, there’s a heavy, easy abandon about Sylvan Esso that grounds their earnest and slightly gawky…
Ben Schwartz, the man who was nearly killed after asking someone to stop catcalling his girlfriend, is hoping to raise awareness to help stop the practice.
A San Francisco man was stabbed and sustained life threatening injuries simply because he dared to ask a catcaller to leave his girlfriend alone.
Yesterday CNN's Fredricka Whitfield held a discussion about Hollaback's catcalling video, which has sparked a huge conversation about street harassment. She invited comedian Amanda Seales, and self-described "Bad Boy" author Steven Santagati, author of The Manual, which apparently teaches women about the 'bad boy' in…
Music beds: They're an art, not a science. On Thursday morning, CNN's New Day promoed their interview with Shoshanna Roberts, the woman in Hollaback's viral street harassment video, by using the part of "Gangnam Style" that includes the refrain "Ehhhhhhh sexy lady."
Well, it's fucking depressing to say it was bound to happen but considering the state of the world, it really was: the woman who starred in Hollaback's viral street harassment video has reportedly been getting rape threats in the comments of the video on YouTube.
In her previous Daily Show segment on catcalls, correspondent Jessica Williams made it very clear that a woman's walk to work is not a red carpet. But clueless commentators continue to insist catcalling is just a buncha chill dudes dispensing free compliments, and so she is back for round two, bringing a camera on…
A city in Missouri could be close to taking a firm stand against catcalling.
On Tuesday night, The Daily Show dived head first into the great catcalling debate, with spectacular results.
A widely-circulated piece about catcalling, written by Doree Lewak for The New York Post, was accidentally published without being edited. Here's how that article should have read…
A man is in the hospital after he was attacked for defending a group of women who were being harassed on the street, according to police.
"A guy told me I was beautiful at the grocery store today."
I've always been curious about the psychology behind street harassment: whenever strange men trundle forth out of the shadows to mutter sexy adjectives at me or whenever they effusively waggle their eyebrows and make kissy noises out of moving vehicles, I wonder, "What is the end game here?" Do they think that I'm…
Earlier this week, the nonprofit group Stop Street Harassment released the results of a survey about the sort of abuse hurled at people who dare leave the house and go out in public in their human bodies. And, to the surprise of no woman, it showed that most women get catcalled or otherwise bothered by strangers…
Leah Green from The Guardian took to the streets of London with a hidden camera to see how unsuspecting men react when they are the targets of the same sexist taunts, insults and catcalls that women are subjected to every day.
It's sunny here, and this afternoon found me out by the river, choosing a patch of grass near a tree and sitting down to read. As I did so, I took note of the two men hanging out nearby—safe, ordinary guys, I thought. Just two friends enjoying the sunshine like everyone else. Even so, I took the scarf from my…
