Sunday, November 02, 2014

An anti-street sexual harassment group employed a white actress to walk certain streets in New York City and secretly recorded some of the comments from and actions of men, mostly Black and Latin, that she encountered. In ten hours of just walking on the streets of Manhattan there were 108 incidents.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b1XGPvbWn0A

There have been over 25,000,000 views of that video and now the group, Hollaback.org, reports that the woman is receiving rape threats online. http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2014/10/29/woman-in-viral-street-harassment-video-now-facing-rape-threats-online/

There is a backlash also. Some claim the video is racist, that incidents with pale-hued menz were edited out. http://www.slate.com/blogs/xx_factor/2014/10/29/catcalling_video_hollaback_s_look_at_street_harassment_in_nyc_edited_out.html. Some claim not all the incidents captured constitute a fair definition of "harrassment."
http://www.slate.com/blogs/xx_factor/2014/10/28/street_harassment_video_a_hidden_camera_records_what_women_go_through_on.html

Those are the sides to it. I have not watched the video so you be the judge.