When typing "what`s it like to be" on the Google search engine, we get a free sample of what is inside many people`s minds. The results may vary from "rich", "famous", "dead", "pregnant"; along with other numerous wonders. However, Hollaback produced a video so that the other half of the planet that is not female can experience first hand "what`s it like to be a female." The video serves as a campaign to stop street harassment. A young women dressed in a turtle-neck shirt, jeans, and sneakers is put to walk on the streets of New York City for ten hours straight. A camera man walked in front of her with a camera in his backpack. She was unpleasantly greeted with more than one hundred instances of verbal harassment. This does not include the countless winks, whistles, and other non verbal harassments. At one instance a guy even follows her for over five minutes. There is a possibility that the video was staged, but this does not remove the fact that ALL women can relate to it.
Megan Garber writes this article for The Atlantic. Her main purpose is to inform the audience about what it is like to be a women walking in the street. Women do not even have the liberty of appearing in public without being humiliated and harassed. She uses informal language and mostly describes the occurrences in the video. She points out how this topic has been gradually undermined, since it has been happening for over decades. In her point of view it is time for both women and men to stand up for this legal crime.
http://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2014/10/hey-baby-what-its-like-to-walk-on-the-street-while-being-female/382032/
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