Jezebel 
Enter your username and password.
New York, 7:18 PM
Fri Nov 27
15 posts in the last 24 hours
Tip your editors:
tips@jezebel.com
Editor-in-Chief:
Anna Holmes
Email | Twitter
Deputy Editor:
Dodai Stewart
Email | Twitter
Senior Contributing Editor:
Tracie Egan
Email | Twitter
Contributing Editors:
Anna North
Email | Twitter
Sadie Stein
Email | Twitter
Reporter:
Irin Carmon
Email | Twitter
Editorial Assistant:
Margaret Hartmann
Email | Twitter
Contributors:
Rich Juzwiak
Email | Twitter
Latoya Peterson
Email
Jenna Sauers
Email
Lizzie Skurnick
Email
Interns:
Katy Kelleher
Twitter
Original material is licensed under a Creative Commons License permitting non-commercial sharing with attribution.
09/13/09
09/11/09
It was pretty genius. I've found that at least when there is only one of them (the manly group dynamic makes this harder) and they're not totally wasted, making them acknowledge that you're an actual person can help stop the madness.
09/11/09
Him: Can I ride? Can I ride?
Me: No.
Him: Well do you wanna ride me? I'll f*ck you good as hell.
This is the general idea behind all of the others, but no one actually came out and said it before.
The other was one where I was on my way home from a long day and I happened to be wearing a super cute dress (with shorts underneath). I stopped at an intersection and an older guy is crossing in front of me.
Him: Can I see it? Can I see it? Can I see it?
Me: (Beat)...My VAGINA? Is that what you want to see? Do you want me to lift up my skirt and show you my VAGINA?!! Do you think that I'm going to show you my VAGINA in front of all of these cars and people??
Him: (Quietly marching off) NO.
The best part was the young girl walking behind him who says, "You shouldn't have said nothin' to her. That's what you get."
09/11/09
09/13/09
09/11/09
Most offensive: "Yo you got an ass like a [n-word]!" I was so taken aback I just kind of gasped, kept walking, and pulled my shirt down.
Most ridiculous: Guy in a truck following me for 5 BLOCKS down 3rd ave trying to get my number, then getting pissed when I told him I was a man, married, etc, and screaming, "C'MON! AT LEAST I GOT A JOB!"
He sure did. He was at it. In his 1-800-FLOWERS delivery truck.
09/11/09
This was a couple of years ago, my boyfriend at the time and I got in the elevator in our apartment building with this middle-aged man. So we're standing there and the guy goes "You guys dating?" and we're like "yeah" and he goes to my boyfriend "I bet you're gonna go home and fuck the shit out of her right now, eh? If I were you, I would take her home, bend her over and just fuck the shit out of her. I would fuck her so hard."
I couldn't even say anything, my jaw was on the floor and I was like, is this real life?
09/10/09
*yell from his car
09/11/09
(HIMYM reference. Sorry.)
09/10/09
"Boobies."
(No laughing, no eye contact, just pointing at them as he passed by. Like, "oh look, those are those boobies we've been hearing about")
"Hey Sweetheart, take it in the brown."
"Baby, if I had me some barbecue sauce I would work you like a rack a' ribs".
09/10/09
The incidents that stick out in my mind usually stick out because I was frightened or unnerved by them, ie. a few months ago, getting off the train, finding myself surrounded by 5 older (and bigger) guys who were looking me up and down like a piece of meat (not even trying to be subtle) and making comments (not even trying to be quiet) about me, "Damn, look at that (nudging each other), that is nice, holy cow, wow, hey there girl, how are you doing?" It wasn't so much what they said but "the way they said it". And the fact that it went on for so long, they didn't stop making comments until I was out of eyesight. I was slightly afraid that they might try to follow me home. And it sticks out also because I felt so powerless. I wanted to tell them to go fuck themselves and leave me alone but I was also afraid of pissing them off, since you never know whether guys are just assholes or if they're genuinely dangerous assholes. So all I could do was smile, say "I'm fine" when they asked how I was doing, and keep walking through the crowd of them with my head down. I was really, really angry when I was out of range, and the fear had subsided. I dunno, incidents like that just really reinforce how goddamn out of control of my own existence I am. Those 5 guys knew I couldn't do a damn thing to stop them from saying (or even doing) anything they felt like to me. It just isn't fair that I can't even take a train home (in the middle of the afternoon, broad daylight, nice middleclass suburban neighbourhood- all the things you'd think would be safe and comfortable) without feeling/being threatened by guys like this.
That was a very long rant and totally beside the point of the original post so I apologize but this is one of those issues that really hits close to home... I think it speaks very loudly about the way gender relations function in our society... (not very well).
09/10/09
This from the guys on one side of the street in response to a boring catcall from the guys on the other side of the street. Love you, Sunset Park! Never change.
09/11/09
09/10/09
Come to 85 Margaret Street and I'll fuck you in the ass, bitch!
I didn't respond but walked on content in the knowledge that he was going in the wrong direction.
09/10/09
Can a woman be the first inductee into the Ass-Hat Hall of Fame?
09/10/09
09/10/09
I don't even have big tits, though I was wearing a lowcut top showing some cleavage. But anyway, it's one of the only times he's been around when I've been catcalled and he was pretty shocked. I don't think most guys (any guys?) realize just how much shit women have to deal with just walking down the street, or taking the train, or whatever. Hell I once had a door to door salesman hit on me- apparently creeps go door to door now?! I was pretty stunned and didn't really have anywhere to go since, you know, I was already home... pretty unnerving.
Wow I just went off on a rant there.
Anyway what I was GOING to say is, it's funny how when we're with our boyfriends, if they're going to catcall us at all they usually/always address the MAN and not us. Wtf is going on in their minds?
09/11/09
I'm not convinced their minds are involved in these interactions at all.
09/11/09
dicks.
09/10/09
09/10/09
09/10/09
"I'll give ya a quarter if you pee in my mouth," he said. I was a bit freaked out and the only thing I could manage to say was no. So he yells "Well ya got nice tits!" and runs away.
09/10/09
09/10/09