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Orwell’s nightmare: Intensified

Synopsis For this response, I will be using stopstreetharassment.org and ihollaback.org, the two largest groups working to end “street harassment.” I will analyze an excerpt from a Made Man article entitled “How to Compliment Women Without Being a Skeeze or a Catcaller” by comparing it to the statements found on these two sites and seeing …

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Music & Men’s Issues: The approach, female space, and “street harassment”—”Let Me Down Easy” by Chris Isaak

Author’s Note: There’s been a rapidly ramped-up cultural shift toward pathologizing male initiation of contact on multiple levels, starting with initial approaches to get women’s attentions. We are told that “street harassment” is not only culturally normative and epidemic but part of the “rape culture” continuum, emblematic of a wider cosmological worldview that men are …

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