Common Folk Collective » bears http://commonfolkcollective.com/blog Common Folk Doing Uncommon Things Tue, 15 Mar 2016 17:08:24 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.9 My Plan to End Street Harassment http://commonfolkcollective.com/blog/2013/08/my-plan-to-end-street-harassment/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=my-plan-to-end-street-harassment http://commonfolkcollective.com/blog/2013/08/my-plan-to-end-street-harassment/#comments Wed, 21 Aug 2013 22:58:11 +0000 http://commonfolkcollective.com/blog/?p=4602 I have a plan to end street harassment and if I understood how Tumblr worked I would have used their tool to promote a post I came across today “My plan to end street harassment forever”. I have a much less violent way to stop street harassment of women.* There are way too many corners or construction sites in our cities that many women avoid because of the regular harassment and catcalling, which are really one in the same.

My solution is code named “OPERATION URSA MAJOR.” The plan is to gather a bunch of bears and have them hang out at the aforementioned spots. They would then whistle and catcall at the people who are usually harassing women. My guess is after a week or so the harassers would get the point.

As a reminder to the general public the only time a catcall is ever acceptable is at a wet t-shirt contest, but if you are at a wet t-shirt contest you, as a participant or viewer, should probably question your life decisions.

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via Flickr user Hope Abrams

*I haven’t posted this earlier because I felt it reeked of a patriarchal tone of “how to protect the women from evil men”

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