Street Harassment Project
May. 1st, 2002 12:44 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sun_set_bravelyThis organization is one to take note of. If you know me, you probably know that it's my personal mission to make the New York City streets safe for women to walk down without fear of being harassed. I'll be out there on May 11th, and I hope to see you there too!
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from the Street Harassment Project website
BECAUSE women are terrorized daily in public spaces, our personal space violated by men who block our paths, stand too close, use a too intimate and insulting language toward us...
BECAUSE this behavior is implicitly menacing and threatening and often becomes overtly threatening when a woman expresses her anger at these affronts...
BECAUSE the line between verbal harassment and physical menacing is often crossed...
BECAUSE on June 11, 2000, hundreds of men assaulted, stripped and fondled over 56 women in the public space of Central Park and the rage of women in the city exploded...
:: PREAMBLE ::
from the Street Harassment Project website
BECAUSE women are terrorized daily in public spaces, our personal space violated by men who block our paths, stand too close, use a too intimate and insulting language toward us...
BECAUSE this behavior is implicitly menacing and threatening and often becomes overtly threatening when a woman expresses her anger at these affronts...
BECAUSE the line between verbal harassment and physical menacing is often crossed...
BECAUSE on June 11, 2000, hundreds of men assaulted, stripped and fondled over 56 women in the public space of Central Park and the rage of women in the city exploded...
