Excellent post. Giving some hope to this forum.

I don't think this woman will ever look longingly back on the days when she was harassed and frightened on the streets. The behavior is unacceptable despite the fact that no one dragged her in an alley and raped her.

She was wearing a normal-fitting crewneck t shirt and jeans. It would be pretty difficult to wear a less provocative outfit unless she was wearing rags. She was not walking like a model either, she was walking like a normal person. It is truly sad you cannot see this.

I wouldn't qualify it as harassing if you merely said hi, although that is a bit strange to say to someone on a crowded city street when you have no relationship to them.

This entire thread save a couple people are socially inept. It is completely unacceptable to "compliment" someone by catcalling and saying "damn girl you beautiful" while objectifying her as a sexual object. That is a completely different scenario than normal compliments which are given to friends or acquaintances, or in a more normal way. Not every comment shown in the video is harassment, but most of them are.

No one is under obligation to say hi to you and strike up a conversation when walking on a busy city street. I have lived in major cities including NYC and I sure as hell don't have time to say hello to random strangers and have conversations with them. If I was an attractive woman and a man I did not acknowledge in any way whistled and try to engage me in conversation when I did not acknowledge him or show any interest I would feel threatened. These people do not have friendly intentions and if you think that you do not understand social norms.

You misunderstood my post. I was using leer to describe what the men are doing while catcalling, whistling, yelling, etc. I don't even know what a passing leer would be since the word inherently means an unpleasant gaze but of course random glances are fine.

If it was being done in the manner in the video of course. Add in the fact that these men are larger and pose as physically threatening to a woman, and that makes it even worse.

How would you feel if a offensive lineman from the NFL aggressively engaged you in unwanted conversation and continued to yell after you after you walked away? Would you not feel threatened? How about the several men in this video who even walked alongside her. One of them was silent but the other continually harassed her verbally.

Blanket statements like this are silly. Yes, women like confident men who have their shit together. I don't think women like "aggressive" men. Certainly not if aggressive includes accosting them on the street when they have shown zero interest.

Did it look like the woman in the video was enjoying the attention? She clearly wasn't. And yes, leering/catcalling at a random woman and yelling hey beautiful is harassment. It is astonishing that you, and others in this thread, cannot distinguish between this and a co-worker saying hello to you.

And no, not all women enjoy being catcalled at in the street or being engaged in unwanted conversation even if the man is attractive. The fact that you think all women enjoy that is scary.

mingmao3046,

Wait, you actually think women enjoy being harassed by men if the man is attractive? That isn't the way it works.

I'm not sure what the purpose of this video is. We all know homeless people and losers who stand on the street all day give unwanted attention to actual members of society. Unfortunately, attractive women get the most of this attention.

However, acting like these men are merely being nice is frightening. They are definitely harassing this woman.

Your comments on this girl's boyfriend are also pathetic. There's a 100% chance you are a sad virgin.

You don't know anything about sex. If you want to be good at sex, you need to work at it.

It's completely normal for a grown woman not to want to deal with the baggage of having sex with a virgin.

Practice on hoodrats, or if you seek a relationship, make sure you are open and honest with the woman before you have sex with her. Just as there's nothing "wrong" with being a virgin, there's nothing "wrong" with not wanting to deal with virgin baggage as an adult.

Guy goes to the mall to stalk underage girls and is surprised by what he sees.

Have you ever been to a mall before? Are you mentally challenged?

This is like making a thread complaining about getting wet when it rains outside.