Street Harassment Video - Two days ago, a video was uploaded to YouTube, which featured Shoshana B Roberts walking through the streets of New York for ten yours.
The special thing about it was that Shoshana wanted to prove how Street Harassment happens every day to a large quantity of women.
How did she do this? Simply walking along the streets and in certain occasions, getting catcalled by different men. Two of them, walking along with her for certain time as well.
At the end of the video, there is a text.
"100+ instances of verbal street harassment took place within 10 hours, involving people of all backgrounds. This doesn't include the countless winks, whistles, etc."
Now, the particularity of this video is not so much the video itself, but more the reactions after seeing it for millions of people.
At the moment, the video has 17,361,132 views, and 79,785 comments. Of those, there are practically two sides: one of mostly women agreeing with the video and not wanting to be 'objectified,' and another one of mostly men saying this is ridiculous, to summarize.
There are even people making videos reacting to this particular video. It's truly astonishing. Apparently, even rape threats were directed at Roberts.
"The subject of our PSA is starting to get rape threats on the comments. Can you help by reporting them?" was posted on Hollaback's Twitter, the organization behind the video.
Also, the biggest surprise was from Rob Bliss, the man who shot the hidden camera footage and the BBC quoted. From what he's shared, he seemed genuinely surprised as he was shooting the video, because he didn't expect Roberts to get that kind of attention so often and in that way.
A lot of women are donating to Hollaback, who's asking for help to stop street harassment, other people are asking for the definition of street harassment because they don't understand how these comments can be considered harassment.
And then, there are other people answering to the confused and angry people who don't consider it street harassment, telling them that they don't "get it" and it's not about the "Hi, beautiful" that is featured in the video, but the entire situation.
It's quite honestly a debate that doesn't seem to have a middle agreement, but two complete opposite extremes.
