THIS WEEK IN STREET HARASSMENT...

Nothing ruins a bike ride on a gorgeous summer day like creeps making sexual comments from the sidewalk. Harriet Walker discusses harassment and biking in London, and wonders why biking seems to draw harassers like a magnet. Gawker posts their own hollaback, entitled “Have you seen this masturbating gentleman?” The amazing Holly Kearl has an op-ed in the Huffington Post – check it out for a great introduction to the problem of street harassment. One of the first questions people always ask me about Hollaback! is whether it is legal to take someone’s photo and post it online. Gizmodo reminds us that in public spaces, all photos are fair game. As anyone who has had a creepy guy with a camera phone take a pic of them knows, this can be a pain, but at least we can point a camera back at them. Let’s reclaim the gaze and Hollaback! The Men’s Anti-Violence Council bring us these comics about street harassment. There has been a depressing amount of victim blaming in the media recently, these authors call out this attitude in the recent Mel Gibson and Al Gore media coverage.