Why does anyone harass women? -

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robobobo

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I have a friend who goes out running around her neighborhood, and from its placement that involves running on the side of a fairly major road. On any given week, at least once or twice some random person will, while rolling down the street at fifty miles an hour, take the time to yell shit at her from their car. A couple of times people have even slowed down to hit on her at greater length, never mind the rest of traffic still going fifty around them.

I'm trying to wrap my head around what makes people do that, and can't come up with a satisfactory answer. Whenever I'm driving somewhere and see someone jogging, it has yet to occur to me that it would be a good idea to roll down my window and yell that she's hot at her. Are they just trolling? Is there some weird hope that the woman will leap into their car and have sex with them on the spot? What's the motivation? I wish they'd interviewed the guys in the videos that went around a few years back where they stuck a woman in the ghetto to get her catcalled at to show the evilness of men, because I'm just dying of curiosity here.
 

melty

True & Honest Fan
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It's long been a mystery to me. Once a guy said something like "to what bra are you wearing???" To me. Why??
More frustratingly, they don't do this if you're with a guy (usually) so guys who aren't asshats and don't do it don't understand the extent this happens.
I do think that if it's two or more guys they do it to impress each other. But that's just a theory
 

Alec Benson Leary

Creator of Asperchu
Christorical Figure
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I'll say the same answer I said when that woman released her racist video of herself walking around exclusively non-white neighborhoods for 10 hours and getting approached and said hello to by strange men:

Because sometimes it works. Those men get positive returns on their efforts frequently enough to keep doing it. If all women really hated it then it would die out.
 
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