holla back

i think i may have written about this website before (but perhaps not). i know i've stopped by their site from time to time. i personally think it's a great idea. i cannot even tell you how often this happens to women (and i would imagine some men). i cannot even tell you how it makes you feel. to have men yell out (or in some cases make gestures) horrible things to you. it skeeves me AND angers me

Women Expose Street Harassment

By Elana Fiske, Ms. Magazine Posted on September 6, 2006, Printed on September 6, 2006http://www.alternet.org/story/41324/
Next time a stranger comments on your breasts in public, just shoot him -- with a camera, such as the one built into your cell phone.
This is the unorthodox advice of Holla Back NYC, a blog-cum-grass-roots movement that uses digital technology to combat street harassment. They urge women not only to take a photo when men hassle or insult them in public, but to make the photo public on www.hollabacknyc.com.
Women and men from New York City and elsewhere have posted snapshots (sometimes blurry) and stories (often grisly) to the website; the worst of which end up in the "Holla Shame." Although participants have been called vigilantes by some, they insist their aim is not to catch or punish the men who catcall on the street. Rather, they want to provide women with an alternative to the helpless feeling of being sexually objectified by a stranger..................