We don't really have gangs of men roaming around where I live, it's a government city... so the harassment I get here is usually in actual bars from annoying drunk men or random people shouting from cars.

I am sure it is different in Sydney or Melbourne though.

If race weren't an element in the harassment I experienced, I wouldn't have mentioned it but I never had any bad experiences with any white Dutch men, even in bars if they were drunk and trying to hit on you, and you told them to go away they just went away. Here they'd call you a **** or a *****. I chickened out going out tonight cause I couldn't be ****ed dealing with that, I always get it arguments with ****s that harass me and get kicked out. I never go to any "Irish pubs" they are the worst.

i was out today for legit no more than 15 minutes to go to the shops and two fat freak men separately said weird **** about/to me ("she's nice isn't she"/ "how about a kiss" how bout no).
it's ill how normal it is to hear stuff like that and have to pretend you didn't.

the weird thing is i don't hear much (i can think off the top of my head maybe 3 instances in the last 4 years) of men saying things in the actual large city i'm always in - but maybe that's TOO public? it's always the smaller town(s) i live in & frequent where the **** goes down

:edit:
just remembered when i was about 17 a man told me he'd like to tie me and was all "the things i'd do to you" up in one of these said small towns. fuuuukk

I've seen that one a bunch of times, and I think I've met the filmmaker, but I'm not positive. I was a founding member of an anti-street harassment group that ran from 2000 to 2006-ish. Hollaback was just starting around the time we were sputtering out - we did some things with them, but the two groups were at totally different points.

That is just plain wonderful. Not what happens in the cartoon, of course, but the cartoon itself. An excellent view on the whole thing.

It absolutely baffles me that there are still men who are this ****ing stupid, such that they think it's actually a compliment to yell random sexual comments to a woman you've never met. I really need to start punching more people in the face.

In the past when I've told men to leave me alone because I was on a night with my friends and didn't want to talk to them, they've accused me of being rude! I'd never get to the point of being kicked out, but I'm impressed you stick up for yourself up to that point (even though the guys should be the ones getting kicked out, of course). I'd probably end up crying out of feeling helpless and frustrated first.

One of my friends just wrote on facebook that while she was walking along a road today a kid on a bike put his hand between her legs!! I think someone posted about that on Jezebel recently and I couldn't quite understand the logistics, but if it happened to my friend it must be plausible

rosaline, I find it hard to come up with a pattern to do with small/big towns, though I'm sure there's something in it. Harassment is rare in my village because everyone would know who it was. I dress in a way that stands out in a small town or city and so often attracts extra harassment, but my outfits would be unremarkable somewhere like London, where I'd get less harassment on that basis. I don't know, trying to rationalise something as stupid as harassment into patterns seems impossible...