{"id":2270,"date":"2007-04-27T10:26:38","date_gmt":"2007-04-27T18:26:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2007\/04\/harassing_third_graders_charming.html"},"modified":"2007-04-27T10:26:38","modified_gmt":"2007-04-27T18:26:38","slug":"harassing_third","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2007\/04\/harassing_third.html","title":{"rendered":"Harassing Third Graders (Charming!)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>City females continue to endure persistent street harassment regardless of looks and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thevillager.com\/villager_208\/youngwomenseekways.html\">irrespective of whether they have even hit puberty<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Virtually every female in the city has experienced street harassment, no matter her age, ethnicity, size or the way she&#8217;s dressed.<\/p>\n<p>Often it&#8217;s just annoying, when it&#8217;s a comment in passing or the stereotypical catcalls from construction sites. But there are also times when it becomes offensive, threatening and a form of sexual assault.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have girls as young as 8 or 9 years old who say they are afraid to walk by this corner or down that street because they&#8217;ve had inappropriate things said to them and they&#8217;ve been followed or even touched by these men,&#8221; said Mandy Van Deven, director of community organizing for Girls for Gender Equity, a Brooklyn-based education and mentoring program. &#8220;This issue consistently comes up every time we ask girls about things they are struggling with.&#8221;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>City females continue to endure persistent street harassment regardless of looks and irrespective of whether they have even hit puberty: Virtually every female in the city has experienced street harassment, no matter her age, ethnicity, size or the way she&#8217;s dressed. Often it&#8217;s just annoying, when it&#8217;s a comment in passing or the stereotypical catcalls [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-jerk_move"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2270","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2270"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2270\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}