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The OP wants to be able to take a walk for her morning coffee in her PJ's without being harassed. Excuse me for a possibly silly observation, but walking around the city in pajamas is not a good way to accomplish such a goal.
She wants to go downstairs to the coffee shop not walk around the city.
I have personally witnessed Transplant (code word, white) young woman, jogging in Bed-Stuy (at an hour they shouldn't be out and about). They have on either skin tight leggings, shorts with long exposed legs, and T-shirt w/o BRA!
They go running through the streets with bouncing **** and rolling asses as if it is alright!! Then get upset if they receive responses. These women are acting in a ridiculously entitled manner, as if there will be no eventual consequences.
Question, don't these people notice that black and spanish girls don't conduct themselves in such a manner, unless they want and/or can handle the response??
I guarantee, no middle class black/spanish women go for coffe in their PAJAMAS!
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These threads are so indicative of how naive people can be. I think these women come from places where street life is nonexistant, move to NYC because of the 'energy' and street life, then get upset about the street life.
Duh!
Um, basically you're saying "She's asking for it". I'm a guy, but I don't like the idea that there are certain ways women should/shouldn't dress, places they shouldn't go, & times they shouldn't be out. In New York, 2011, a woman deserves the right to walk down the street without being harrassed or intimidated. If it does occur, though, let's not blame the victim.
Btw: I'm calling bs on you-no sane woman is going jogging bra-less.
Some women make me think of this song sometimes, but
I would only sing it in my own mind. There's an English
version if you don't understand the lyric.
I don't think her perception of herself is so relevant here, and while I'm not a native NY'er, I spent all my summers here growing up, and NYC has an alarmingly high number of those types of guys. Walking down Queens Blvd., around every corner was another dude "hollering", whistling, or expressing their desire to perform certain actions on my lady friends, female relatives, and so on. My younger sister was once getting harassed by these two guys on the bus for an entire hour (she was five years old at the time!!).
Queens Blvd? LOL, there's your answer right there.
I understand their will alway be losers who will cat call and harass anything with boobs that walks by, but I would love to find an area where I can wake up and walk to get my morning coffee and paper still in my P.J's without being harassed or having to wear my headphones to drowned out the sounds of pathetic guys. It seems the areas I have lived in (various areas in Brooklyn and East Harlem) it doesn't matter the time of day or what your wearing (Baggy sweatpants and a loose fitted hoodie) men still think you're asking to be harassed. If any women reading this lives somewhere where they can walk on the street peacefully I would LOVE to know. Thanks!!
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Puh-leeze
