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NewsBunny
11/19/09

In reply to City Council, NYPD Address Subway Harassment
A guy tried to fell me up on the 7 last year -- it was amazing overcrowded, because all the underground lines were fucked because of flooding.

I felt a hand on my breast. And I threw my right hook. It's a punch that requires you be close to your target, and doesn't take much room to hit properly.

SOB gasped in pain and got off at the next stop.
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logruszed
11/19/09

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Cattle prods can be had via mail order for less than $50.

If the cops can't do anything about some motherfucker whacking off on me, they have no excuse for doing something about me using a couple jillion volts on his taint.
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la.donna.pietra
11/19/09

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A couple of years ago, I read a totally awesome article about groping on the London Tube. It featured a woman who grabbed the guy's hand, held it up, and shouted, "Does this belong to anyone? It seems to have gotten attached to my bum!" as the owner of the hand blushed in shame.

She is my hero, most days.
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AndPreciousLittleofThat
11/19/09

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It seems clear these per(v)ps have very little brainpower in the "if-then" department.

With the modern prevalence of tasers and the ease of fist-to-genital contact, these guys are, no pun intended, really taking their lives into their own hands.
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Benevolent_Dictatrix (patently absurd)
11/19/09

@AndPreciousLittleofThat: Actually I think these guys know that there is a very slim chance they will be physically harmed when they do this. They rely on their victims being too scared, surprised, and socially conditioned not to cause a ruckus to defend themselves.
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Pizza!Pizza!Pizza!
11/19/09

@Benevolent_Dictatrix (patently absurd): I have to agree. Especially since so many of them rely on exactly the same thing that many office harassers or even molesters rely on – the self-doubt of the victim. So many of these comments include women who weren't sure at first if it was an accident or harassment, which is natural (and I'm the same way), but we let things go way further than most men would out of fear that we'll be wrong. Or we'll make a stink and be embarrassed. Or we seriously cant believe someone would be that crude then, upon interpreting the event afterwards, realize what really happened and we want to kick ourselves.
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Pizza!Pizza!Pizza!
11/19/09

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It is so encouraging that they even consider this (and women's quality of life) a problem. At the very least, it gives victims incentive to report it when it happens – even if that's usually the last thing you want to do.

And the fact that so many are sex offenders is creepy. Sort of makes the argument that these guys think they're offering compliments, or that they're totally harmless, a little harder to believe.

I'm sure everyone at hollabacknyc.com is happy!
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futuremouse
11/19/09

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You know for all the crap NY gets for being rude or apathetic, people on the subway tend to band together in really awesome ways. I've had people (mostly women but not always) steer me away from creepy dudes, tell someone to shuttup or quietly let me know when an item of clothing has, unbeknownst to me, started revealing a bit more than I meant for it to. On an unrelated to sexual harrasment note, last week I was on the train, mumbling something about how my mouth tasted like beer and this woman just turned around handed me a piece of gum and said yup, I've been there. In other words, I love my city.
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futuremouse
11/19/09

@futuremouse: Just to note, I do not mean to suggest that subway harassment is not a serious issue. Just wanted to share some examples of people being awesome.
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sportz.star
11/19/09

@futuremouse: It's so true. Also, there was a piece on Slate recently about how sociologist have often studied subway riders, because the environment puts strangers of all sorts together and then they do interesting things -- like give a piece of gum away. [www.slate.com]

I have, however, been subway harassed. Usually later at night, uncrowded car. It's the worse and has given me on a taxis only late night rule.
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morninggloria
11/19/09

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Why are they focusing on Subway? They really need to turn their attention to that creepy as fuck sexually predatory oven in Quiznos.
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cate3710
11/19/09

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Another problem with the PSAs? They lead to really awkward moments. I was on the subway once, and there was a little girl who was reading (out loud) all the signs. She reached that one, didn't know the words, and looked to her mom for help. I don't remember exactly how the mom responded but I think it was something like 'Let's just skip the words in red for now, okay dear? Move on to the next sign.'

ETA: Not that they couldn't lead to good conversations with kids of the right age.
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DinaRonson : Elizabeth Cady Stanton
11/19/09

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Can we do something about the open grate staircases? I've been upskirted on them one too many times thank you.
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Penny
11/19/09

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I'm lucky, I've never had a problem on the NYC subway (although I don't live there so I am obviously not on it every day), but have had horrible luck in other cities (Boston especially). I always love how people scoff at how pissy New Yorkers are. If they rode the subway a few times I suspect they would understand. Keep your earbuds in and your eye contact to a minimum.

I feel so horrible for women who have experienced more extreme (i.e. someone jerking off on them) harassment. Something like that might put me off the train for a few days.
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morninggloria
11/19/09

@Penny: True fact: I've only spent about a half an hour of my life in NYC, and that was because I took a bus from the airport to Grand Central Station so that I could take a train to Connecticut.

I feel as though I've missed out on so many opportunities to be harassed and/or entertained.
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Penny
11/19/09

@morninggloria: Don't feel too badly, I have never been to Chicago.

For shame!
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morninggloria
11/19/09

@Penny: If you ever visit do so in the summer or fall, when Chicagoans' natural surliness is at its lowest point.
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BearDownCBears
11/19/09

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Wait, so I should be offended when the conductor tells me to "get off"?
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Pizza!Pizza!Pizza!
11/19/09

@BearDownCBears: Hmm... does he call you a stupid cunt if you don't?
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Newsgirl
11/13/09

In reply to Garrido Apologizes For Kidnapping Jaycee Dugard
I'll bet someone a cupcake he found Christ the last time he was in prison, too. #phillipgarridoapologizes
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la.donna.pietra
11/13/09

@Newsgirl: And you would be correct, too:

[www.foxnews.com] #phillipgarridoapologizes
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maude_flanders
11/13/09

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Mike Huckabee, Mike Huckabee, Mike Huckabee. Or, rather, Wayne Dumond and Glen Green. That's what his phony fucking "apology" makes me think of. [www.salon.com]

When violent criminals invoke God (hell, I'm sure some of them might feel bad occasionally (not this one....shithole; he's under the category of "not really sorry or taking personal responsibility/justifies what he does on basis on religion/both"), I want to shoot them right there.

And then I want to punish the people who enable them.

Aren't masks of earthly construction bad enough? How unspeakable to use faith as a pretense or a weapon to wave off moral accountability to your neighbors in the here-and-now. (I don't really care what Garrido's or Dumond's proposed relationships with God were/are sincere...who gives a shit, they're rapists!) #phillipgarridoapologizes
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JinxyMcDeath
11/13/09

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Says Christ, "I'd like Mr. Duggard to keep me out of this..." #phillipgarridoapologizes
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JinxyMcDeath
11/13/09

@JinxyMcDeath: I meant Mr. Garrido! #phillipgarridoapologizes
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hortense
11/13/09

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"To every human being." This is still so depersonalized. Not "to Jaycee" or "to Jaycee's family" but "to every human being." Ugh. #phillipgarridoapologizes
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