I feel ugly today & I look ugly today. I'm dressed like a third grade teacher from New Mexico & everything about me is wrong. It is always when you are feeling ugliest & looking ugliest that the disgusting motherfuckers who like to make comments from their stoops or their cars decide to become more aggressively disgusting. Fending off dirty assholes when you are in no mood just makes you depressed, makes you hate the world even more. It turns into this spiral of loathing that focuses itself back on you. The worst part is, I believe that that is their intent. I really believe those motherfuckers get off on making us feel like shit about ourselves. I mean, they hardly expect to get a date with that approach.
This website has that fine feminist rallying spirit, but it still doesn't give, as far as I can see, any concrete answers to the questions it poses. I'd like to know, for example, how one would go about Engaging in actions that will make the harassment of women a NOT PLEASANT and NOT REWARDING experience for the harasser, or more importantly, how we are supposed to start Creating an atmosphere in which street harassment is completely socially unacceptable?
I'd like there to be some sort of mark we could give street harassers. When someone robs a bank, doesn't some sort of blue chemical explode all over them, identifying them as the culprit? Couldn't it be something where women were armed with paint guns or something, so when some dude hisses hey mami at us, we could blast him with a very bright dye that never washes out? & thereafter, everyone could see that he was a dirty bastard who had pissed off the wrong woman? I bet almost half the guys in my neighborhood would be covered in the shit, & probably 75% of the ones on my block. Sigh. Tis but a lovely dream. If anyone else has ideas, I want to hear them.
