On Wednesday, French lawmakers voted to outlaw street harassment, the enactment of which will soon be subject to fines of up to 750 euros (about $870), Reuters reports. The ban applies to gender-based harassment both in the streets and on public transit, according to the Washington Post.
On Saturday, French president Emmanuel Macron officially announced new measures to fight sexism and violence against women in the country.
Women across France shared their stories of sexual harassment and abuse over the weekend as a social media hashtag —#BalanceTonPorc or “Expose Your Pig”—spread throughout Twitter. According to the New York Times, various proposals are on the table to institute fines for “aggressive catcalling or lecherous behavior”…
Listen, we’ve all been there. You’re at a bar, just trying to enjoy a drink alone, and some sleazy guy in a “TRUCK YOU” shirt comes up and starts saying lewd things to you. What do you do?
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."