{"id":176,"date":"2013-07-17T19:33:12","date_gmt":"2013-07-17T23:33:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/hoochie\/?p=176"},"modified":"2017-10-31T20:17:10","modified_gmt":"2017-11-01T00:17:10","slug":"terms-you-should-know-1-street-harassment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/hoochie\/2013\/07\/17\/terms-you-should-know-1-street-harassment\/","title":{"rendered":"Terms You Should Know #1: Street Harassment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here is a definition of Street Harassment, courtesy of\u00a0<a title=\"Click me! \" href=\"http:\/\/www.stopstreetharassment.org\/resources\/definitions\/\" target=\"_blank\">StopStreetHarassment.org<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Unwelcome words and actions by unknown persons in public places which are motivated by gender and invade a person\u2019s physical and emotional space in a disrespectful, creepy, startling, scary, or insulting way.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>There are various definitions of street harassment, but all of them specify that street harassment occurs in public, between people who do not know each other, and is a physical or emotional intrusion. \u00a0The harasser usually makes reference to the victim\u2019s appearance or gender.<\/p>\n<p>Why this term it is relevant:<\/p>\n<p>According to a nationally-representative <a title=\"Oxygen\/Markle Pulse Poll\" href=\"http:\/\/www.thefreelibrary.com\/Oxygen%2FMarkle+Pulse+Poll+Finds%3A+Harassment+of+Women+on+the+Street+Is...-a062870396\" target=\"_blank\">poll<\/a>,<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>87 percent of American women have experienced street harassment, and\u00a0over one half of these women have experienced\u00a0\u201cextreme\u201d harassment including being touched, grabbed, rubbed, brushed\u00a0or followed by a strange man on the street or other public place.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Street harassment is not a compliment. \u00a0It is, in fact, harassment, and should be treated as such. \u00a0Let\u2019s lower the numbers!<\/p>\n<p>See <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ihollaback.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Hollaback<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.everydaysexism.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Everyday Sexism Project<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/canigetasmile.tumblr.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Can I Get a Smile?<\/a>\u00a0to start.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here is a definition of Street Harassment, courtesy of\u00a0StopStreetHarassment.org: Unwelcome words and actions by unknown persons in public places which are motivated by gender and invade a person\u2019s physical and emotional space in a disrespectful, creepy, startling, scary, or insulting way. There are various definitions of street harassment, but all of them specify that street &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/hoochie\/2013\/07\/17\/terms-you-should-know-1-street-harassment\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Terms You Should Know #1: Street Harassment<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7073,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[64,4,125,96,59],"tags":[21,57,58],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/hoochie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176"}],"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=176"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/hoochie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":177,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/hoochie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176\/revisions\/177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/hoochie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/hoochie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/hoochie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}