Stop Asking Me To Ignore Street Harassment Analysis

The western world today is a society based on conservatism and censorship. It’s a society riddled with hatred and harassment, and everyday people must live with that and pretend it doesn’t exist in order to conform to societal views and expectations. Women everyday are asked to ignore catcalling, that they should feel flattered, but the feeling of dread and terror that often comes with the stares and the words do not make you feel flattered, it makes you feel sick. So how does a woman curb this unwanted attention? I say, she doesn’t; she shouldn’t have to. I feel that it is in our power to educate people, to make people aware that this is a problem, and not one that could be solved by simply wearing less revealing clothes. The website Hollaback!,
It angers me that people think this is okay, and puzzles me that it continues. If it were men in our shoes, like suggested in the article “Stop Asking Me To Ignore Street Harassment” by an anonymous author, if men were forced to look away, forced to dress and act a certain way in order to feel invisible, would views change? Leering and cat-calling is a sick form of bullying; putting someone into a situation where they no longer feel safe, that is bullying (Anon). If men were able to experience this, then I am absolutely certain it would not
No, I do not think that every person who has assaulted a woman needs to be locked up for what they’ve done, but I do think there has to be something done about it. I don’t think women should be afraid to leave their houses; be afraid to wear a short dress or a low cut shirt because some man will oggle them distastefully. People need to learn that not every woman is flattered by wolf-whistles and hooting. The world needs to change, and I believe the power of educating and informing may be the change that is