Principled Peter
Principled Peter's JournalThe Problem With That Catcalling Video: The White Guys Got Edited Out
Hanna Rosin from Slate:
This doesnt mean that the video doesnt still effectively make its point, that a woman cant walk down the street lost in her own thoughts, that men feel totally free to demand her attention and get annoyed when she doesnt respond, that women cant be at ease in a public space in the same way men can. But the video also unintentionally makes another point, that harassers are mostly black and Latino, and hanging out on the streets in midday in clothes that suggest they are not on their lunch break. As Roxane Gay tweeted, The racial politics of the video are fucked up. Like, she didnt walk through any white neighborhoods?
The video is a collaboration between Hollaback!, an anti-street harassment organization, and the marketing agency Rob Bliss Creative. At the end they claim the woman experienced 100 plus incidents of harassment involving people of all backgrounds. Since that obviously doesnt show up in the video, Bliss addressed it in a post. He wrote, we got a fair amount of white guys, but for whatever reason, a lot of what they said was in passing, or off camera or was ruined by a siren or other noise. The final product, he writes, is not a perfect representation of everything that happened. That may be true but if you find yourself editing out all the catcalling white guys, maybe you should try another take.
This is not the first time Bliss has been called out for race blindness. In a video to promote Grand Rapids, Michigan, he was criticized for making a city thats a third minority and a quarter poor look like it was filled with people who have been reincarnated from those peppy family-style 1970s musical acts from Disney World or Knotts Berry Farm, as a local blogger wrote.
Activism is never perfectly executed. We can just conclude that they caught a small slice of catcallers and lots of other men do it too. But if the point of this video is to teach men about the day-to-day reality of women, then this video doesnt hit its target. The men who are sitting in their offices or in cafes watching this video will instead be able to comfortably assure themselves that they dont have time to sit on hydrants in the middle of the day and cant properly pronounce mami. They might do things to women that are worse than catcalling, but this is not their sin.
http://www.slate.com/blogs/xx_factor/2014/10/29/catcalling_video_hollaback_s_look_at_street_harassment_in_nyc_edited_out.html
This is more disgusting than the catcalling itself!
TLC Cancels Here Comes Honey Boo Boo over Mama June’s Child-Molesting Boyfriend
TLC has officially canceled their ratings hit Here Comes Honey Boo Boo due to rumors that the familys matriarch, June Mama June Summers, was dating a convicted child molester.
Yesterday, TMZ released a photo of Mama June and recently-released convict Mark McDaniel in a hotel room together, along with reports that the two of them had resumed a relationship that began and ended ten years ago, when McDaniel was convicted of aggravated child molestation in specifically, forcing oral sex on an 8 year old relative of Mama June and sent to serve a ten-year prison sentence in 2004.
Mama June herself was recently divorced from Mike Sugar Bear Thompson, a former cast member on the show and the biological father of Alana Honey Boo Boo Thomspon.
http://www.mediaite.com/tv/tlc-cancels-here-comes-honey-boo-boo-over-mama-junes-child-molesting-boyfriend/
Maybe there IS a God!
TLC Cancels Here Comes Honey Boo Boo over Mama June’s Child-Molesting Boyfriend
Source: Mediaite
TLC has officially canceled their ratings hit Here Comes Honey Boo Boo due to rumors that the familys matriarch, June Mama June Summers, was dating a convicted child molester.
Yesterday, TMZ released a photo of Mama June and recently-released convict Mark McDaniel in a hotel room together, along with reports that the two of them had resumed a relationship that began and ended ten years ago, when McDaniel was convicted of aggravated child molestation in specifically, forcing oral sex on an 8 year old relative of Mama June and sent to serve a ten-year prison sentence in 2004.
Mama June herself was recently divorced from Mike Sugar Bear Thompson, a former cast member on the show and the biological father of Alana Honey Boo Boo Thomspon.
Read more: http://www.mediaite.com/tv/tlc-cancels-here-comes-honey-boo-boo-over-mama-junes-child-molesting-boyfriend/
Maybe there IS a God!
Jodi Ernst is gonna LOSE
Des Moines is more of a big town than a city, and people here are leaning HEAVILY toward Braley. And it's not just me saying this. I have a friend who's a Register editor, and he says statewide it's looking like a 3-4% win for the Democrat.
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