Michael Laxer's blog  Michael Laxer's picture  Sexual harassment
on the street: Taking misogynist hate speech seriously  | June
24, 2013 Sexual harassment on the street: Taking misogynist hate
speech seriously   As a society we need to start discussing and
confronting one of the last broadly practiced, widely condoned,
accepted and excused forms of public hate speech and shaming in
Canada. The regular and chronic abuse and violation of women by
men through street sexual harassment and intimidation.  Just in
the last few days I have personally seen and heard of several
explicit examples of male street harassment of women in my own
immediate neighbourhood. In one case, as I was taking my kids
home on the streetcar I saw a car with two men in their early
twenties slow down to yell degrading comments at a young woman
of no older than sixteen.  I was also told of two men yelling
negatively across the street at a woman, just outside where I
work, laughing that she was so "fat" that they were "F******
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