{"id":166,"date":"2013-06-22T19:24:00","date_gmt":"2013-06-22T23:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/hoochie\/?p=166"},"modified":"2017-10-31T20:13:43","modified_gmt":"2017-11-01T00:13:43","slug":"npr-highlights-the-story-of-an-artist-inviting-social-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/hoochie\/2013\/06\/22\/npr-highlights-the-story-of-an-artist-inviting-social-change\/","title":{"rendered":"NPR highlights the story of an artist inviting social change"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sick of street harassment in her neighborhood, Tatayana Fazlalizadeh<\/a>\u00a0has been plastering an important message around the city of Brooklyn:\u00a0 Stop harassing women on the streets.\u00a0 We don\u2019t want it.\u00a0 It is offensive.\u00a0 We are not obligated to give men our time or attention<\/p>\n

Some men, of course, still don\u2019t believe street harassment is an issue.<\/p>\n

Anthony Williams, a featured interviewee, believes street harassment is what he is \u201csupposed\u201d <\/i>to do.\u00a0 It is his right to try to \u201cacquire\u201d an attractive woman he sees.\u00a0 He can say what he pleases to her in hopes of her reciprocation.<\/p>\n

These are the men Tatayana Fazlalizadeh is targeting with her socially conscious art.<\/p>\n

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Interestingly though, one of the most upvoted comments on this article, by a man, asserts that all men are not like Anthony Williams.\u00a0 But Tatayana isn\u2019t targeting the \u201cgood guys\u201d out there.\u00a0 So why is such a comment relevant?<\/p>\n

Of course, not all men think they are supposed <\/i>to harass women about their appearances.\u00a0 And not all men believe women are objects to be acquired.<\/p>\n

To those men who wouldn\u2019t think of partaking in street harassment, we sincerely appreciate it.\u00a0 We are glad that you are disgusted that others of your gender would be so inconsiderate and offensive. But this article isn\u2019t directed at you.<\/p>\n

Men shouldn\u2019t feel the need to rally in defense of their gender when issues such as street harassment arise. \u00a0Those who do so make this mistake are diverting attention from the issue at hand.<\/p>\n

It is easy to dismiss a social concern by claiming that it isn\u2019t ubiquitous enough to merit the attention of the general population.\u00a0 But the facts are that street harassment is incredibly prevalent<\/a>\u00a0all over the world.<\/p>\n

So no, not ALL men harass women on the street, but a great many do. \u00a0Progress occurs when the \u201cgood guys\u201d stop worrying about defending themselves and commit to reprimanding the guy who shouts \u201cnice tits\u201d at a girl walking down the street.<\/p>\n

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Sick of street harassment in her neighborhood, Tatayana Fazlalizadeh\u00a0has been plastering an important message around the city of Brooklyn:\u00a0 Stop harassing women on the streets.\u00a0 We don\u2019t want it.\u00a0 It is offensive.\u00a0 We are not obligated to give men our time or attention Some men, of course, still don\u2019t believe street harassment is an issue. … Continue reading NPR highlights the story of an artist inviting social change<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7073,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[64,4,125],"tags":[21,57,58],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/hoochie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/hoochie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/hoochie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/hoochie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7073"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/hoochie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=166"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/hoochie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":167,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/hoochie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166\/revisions\/167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/hoochie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/hoochie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/hoochie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}