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I don't know much about the lawsuit, but I was walking in NYC today when a guy started hollering out of his truck. All the usual -- "MMM HMM! Sexy! I like it!" All driving real slow alongside me and making me feel really shit and uncomfortable. He makes a left turn in front of me and is craning his neck, for the front view, but then gets this weird look on his face and speeds off. So I'm like, 1.Yay, he stopped, but 2. WTF was that? And so I check out my reflection in some windows and saw that, having just come from the dentist and still significantly shot full of lidocaine, I'd dribbled truly MASSIVE amounts all down my chin and the front of my blouse, with, like, those little flecks of shavings that they file off new fillings all mixed in.

So ladies, if you're fed up with street harassment, dribbling all over yourself might help
 
thestrangequark said:
I don't know much about the lawsuit, but I was walking in NYC today when a guy started hollering out of his truck. All the usual -- "MMM HMM! Sexy! I like it!" All driving real slow alongside me and making me feel really shit and uncomfortable. He makes a left turn in front of me and is craning his neck, for the front view, but then gets this weird look on his face and speeds off. So I'm like, 1.Yay, he stopped, but 2. WTF was that? And so I check out my reflection in some windows and saw that, having just come from the dentist and still significantly shot full of lidocaine, I'd dribbled truly MASSIVE amounts all down my chin and the front of my blouse, with, like, those little flecks of shavings that they file off new fillings all mixed in.

So ladies, if you're fed up with street harassment, dribbling all over yourself might help
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OMG I love that story
 
We have significantly less of this crap in my city, like I am struggling to recall more than a few stories. So when I read your story tsq my first thought is "good thing they all have guns over there because I would be so..." but then I reign my thoughts in. I am a nice, mostly unviolent person. The pen is mightier than the gun so I'd probably write down the license plate of any dickfuck that was dumb enough to yell this stuff out of a car and report him for something. Something bad.
 
Coco Pops 1967 said:
http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/actress-walking-nyc-woman-video-files-lawsuit-article-1.2292312

I wonder if she should have looked harder at the contract she signed.

Still if she wins she will get a nice payout.

I'm feeling 50/50 on this story. Part of me says "go for it sue the buggers" and part of me thinks that she might lose.
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Assuming she did sign a contract, what did she think they were going to do with the footage they filmed - use it for private screenings?
 
That depends on what the contract says, doesn't it?

If the contract doesn't cover a release permission for commercial purposes or something like that, she may have a case.
 
Timelord Victorious said:
That depends on what the contract says, doesn't it?

If the contract doesn't cover a release permission for commercial purposes or something like that, she may have a case.
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http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/shoshana-roberts-actress-sues-director-6068292

In this mirror-article it says
Her lawyer says she did not have a written agreement with Bliss.
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Stupid on the part of the director/makers of the video.
It's still a dick-move on her part, as she knew what this video was about.
It's seems to me she underestimated the internet's reactions and is now embarrassed.

And it seems she's underestimating the Streisand-effect this will now cause.
 
thestrangequark said:
I don't know much about the lawsuit, but I was walking in NYC today when a guy started hollering out of his truck. All the usual -- "MMM HMM! Sexy! I like it!" All driving real slow alongside me and making me feel really shit and uncomfortable. He makes a left turn in front of me and is craning his neck, for the front view, but then gets this weird look on his face and speeds off. So I'm like, 1.Yay, he stopped, but 2. WTF was that? And so I check out my reflection in some windows and saw that, having just come from the dentist and still significantly shot full of lidocaine, I'd dribbled truly MASSIVE amounts all down my chin and the front of my blouse, with, like, those little flecks of shavings that they file off new fillings all mixed in.

So ladies, if you're fed up with street harassment, dribbling all over yourself might help
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And a can of mace!
 
Great story, TSQ!

Years (decades) ago, I was walking home from class late at night, and some guy slowed his car down to my pace and offered me a ride. No way I was going to even look in his direction. He tried again; I still ignored him.

Go to class the next week and the professor asks me why I wouldn't accept a ride from him! Um, because you didn't call me by name or identify yourself, and not interacting with male strangers in the dark helps young women survive in the city?

:rolleyes:
 
^Oh girl I get it! I once came into work and my boss asked my why I blew him off the day before. Of course, I had no idea what he was talking about. He told me he saw me walking in Brooklyn and tried to say hi, but I'd completely ignored him. I had to explain to him that I didn't even realize it was him, I just automatically ignore all male attention as much as possible when I'm on the street because I get harassed so much. I've actually taken to apologizing in advance to all new male friends and coworkers -- telling them that if ever I blow them off on the street, I'm sorry, but at this point the moment I step out of my home the headphones go on and the shields go up, and that's the only way to protect myself.
 
thestrangequark said:
^Oh girl I get it! I once came into work and my boss asked my why I blew him off the day before. Of course, I had no idea what he was talking about. He told me he saw me walking in Brooklyn and tried to say hi, but I'd completely ignored him. I had to explain to him that I didn't even realize it was him, I just automatically ignore all male attention as much as possible when I'm on the street because I get harassed so much. I've actually taken to apologizing in advance to all new male friends and coworkers -- telling them that if ever I blow them off on the street, I'm sorry, but at this point the moment I step out of my home the headphones go on and the shields go up, and that's the only way to protect myself.
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Sounds reasonable to me. You have to protect yourself any way you can.
 
I honestly don't know how women put up with it all of the time. Which is why I think I'm best-off keeping to myself and not piling on.
 
I would like to see a bunch of these guys entrapped and interviewed by a news crew about exactly why they do what they do, what they're thinking it will actually achieve, and whether they are actually under the illusion that women enjoy that kind of attention. Personally, I don't think those guys have the intelligence to understand the irony when they reject, are embarrassed, or are angered by the attention of the camera.
 
JWPlatt said:
whether they are actually under the illusion that women enjoy that kind of attention.
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Street harassers are certainly dumb enough to think that might actually be the case, but I suspect it's mostly about trying to assert power and control.
 
Trekker4747 said:
I honestly don't know how women put up with it all of the time. Which is why I think I'm best-off keeping to myself and not piling on.
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Well, that's a bit extreme. It's not as if there aren't appropriate settings to go up to a woman and say "hi," like in a bar with her friends if they're actively looking around and chatting with others and her body language isn't saying "Leave me the fuck alone, I'm just here to be the designated driver." Just screaming at them on the street as they're passing by alone is not one of those times, though.
 
Coco Pops 1967 said:
TSQ and Tora I hope you guys are OK. Not all of us males are like that.
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True. And I'm fine, thanks. My story was very old. Old like from your childhood, assuming that's your birth year in your username.

Speaking of which, feel free to call me Ziyal. In the Bajoran naming tradition, the family name is first and the given name second. ;)
 
As a guy, I can't really comment on cat calling (although there was a hilarious time in Italy when I was walking with some girls from my study abroad trip and a car goes in reverse to come back and say hi to them and slams into the car driving behind him).

If there was no contract to put the video online, then she might have a claim. However, I suspect even an oral contract is sufficient (it doesn't need to be written) and I'm not sure all named defendants would be culpable. She may be telling the truth, but I suspect she's just having second thoughts because it wasn't worth the little pay she got considering the significant negative consequences.
 
Locutus of Bored said:
Trekker4747 said:
I honestly don't know how women put up with it all of the time. Which is why I think I'm best-off keeping to myself and not piling on.
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Well, that's a bit extreme. It's not as if there aren't appropriate settings to go up to a woman and say "hi," like in a bar with her friends if they're actively looking around and chatting with others and her body language isn't saying "Leave me the fuck alone, I'm just here to be the designated driver." Just screaming at them on the street as they're passing by alone is not one of those times, though.
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But, see is that true? Because women get harassed, hit on, and constantly picked up all of the time when at bars and stuff. So why pile on?
 
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