The only reason she feels bad about the sexual attention is that it's from low quality males.
Or... It could be from the fact a thousand men pestered her for little relevant reason whatsoever beyond they wanted to nail her, and that's just through the video. Imagine what she and billions of other women deal with EVERY TIME WE WALK OUTSIDE!!! It doesn't even matter what we wear unless it's dress up to go out, then it's like a d*** plague...
Anyhow what your seeing on that video are guys spotting a fertile (wide hips + breasts + healthy body) female and following their evolutionary instincts and trying to demonstrate worth by being aggressive and approaching her.
Well, perhaps guys should stop and control their instincts if their first thought seeing a woman walk by is to harass her with is quite clearly, a disinterest in attention. Her body language is showing quite clearly she doesn't want to talk to you, but they try anyway as if they have no control over what comes out of their mouth.
I control mine, I maybe fearful alone, but I don't cower and flee in a panic when a guy runs towards me at the park, i control my emotions and my body, he's just getting exercise like me. So why can't they?
Or in the case of the creepy stalker following her, control over their own bodies, that would terrify the hell out of me and i'd be beelining for the nearest store to stay until he was long gone. That's a red flag to someone who's likely a lot worse then just walking besides you for 10 minutes, that you don't want to be alone around.
Of course the editors of the video deliberately cut out any positive reactions she had and chose to only display the negative ones, so its kinda of like Fox and NBC. What you see here is the kinds of negative attention a female will get, they deliberately leave out the positive kinds like when a tall handsome man in expensive clothes walks over to her.
How would you define positive reactions? Her stopping at the nearest cute guy?? Interactions with a hotdog stand vendor?? The point of the video was to show what women deal with just going from point A to point B. And that's exactly what she showed, and that's exactly what happens.
p.s. A lot of women trying to go somewhere (And even not honestly, let's say 95% of the time in our days) DON'T CARE about the handsome guy in sexy clothes. Not one little bit. Not even a microscopic shred.
The only time any woman will care about how some guy looks, is if she's in the mood to attempt to find a partner (for either long or short term interests). That's it. For most women we're not in a perpetual mode of seeking a partner for sexual relations (or even not) like men are. A few women maybe, but not most, hence why this whole video shows a problem in the world!
We can actually get into a much deeper conversation about female privilege because that's exactly what your seeing here. An average male walking down the street would be an invisible non-person with insufficient value for anyone else to bother taking notice.
What privilege?
It's a privilege to be sexually harassed as I walk down the street?
If that's the case, you can take that privilege back, I'd be happy just being ignored most of the time until I seek attention.
The reason men are invisible to women walking down the street is because WE'RE NOT SEEKING ATTENTION! (That isn't a hard thing to understand, seriously.)
Why men are invisible to other is their own problem. Women can't solve that, and given how I've seen most men interact when walking by, they likely don't seek to change that either.
So while all that male attention is from low value males, it's still attention that validates her worth and indicates she has sufficient value for people to take notice.
News flash! Most women don't judge their self worth and social and economic value off how many men hit on them as they walk to work, or get food at the store, or grabbing a game at the store.
Men seem to, having a "sexy" women is deemed that he was successful.
But most women don't value things like that. Again, that's why this is a problem and not men just: Being nice.
I strongly recommend people read Norah Vincint's Self Made Man to get a better understanding of the differences in perception of value from a male and a female.
It's not about perception value, it's about not harassing every woman you deem suitable to sleep with as you stand on a corner smoking, or stalk the aisles at the store. It's about self control and respect, something at least a portion of men, esp those in the video, seem to lack.
Not in the video, but posting the video and making a big deal about a lot of "harassment" where they were clearly not (some were, but certainly not most of them).
That's why she is an attention ***.
No, they clearly were, we've been over this.
Some guys in texas may find this normal, but not everyone does, saying hi to someone who if they were a man, you wouldn't utter a grunt too, is not just being nice, it's harassing based off her being a woman.
There's no attention whoring, but it is bringing attention to a problem women face daily.
During the video, I counted 6 times that people said some form of "Have a nice day" or "Good morning/evening." Did not count those that included "baby" or "darling" which still isn't remotely harassing.
So 6 times where some guy was "just being nice" to a random strange woman, versus about 40-50 times of "real" harassment. Even IF they were just being nice, that's a huge statistical problem. 1 out of every 9 guys will harass you... yeah.. makes me feel good inside... [/sarcasm]
Saying "hey baby/darling" on the street to a random woman isn't harassment? That's blunt sexual harassment. Saying that is what you might say to your wife, not a random stranger.
And you know that this woman posted the "worst" harassment she caught on tape to prove her point. If 6 of these harassment examples are just friendly greetings, what's to say that a percentage (just to be nice, because, as I pointed out, she more than likely captured the worst of it during the video, so we really saw all of the street harassment she received in that 10 hours) of all the harassment isn't harassment at all?
She likely did pick the worst of what she
felt safe showing that happened to her. There's much worse that happens to women who reject a random mans advances, and death and rape threats on twitter and by mail, aren't the whole story. I'll cite the following as evidence of such:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/10/07/mary-spears-killed-detroit_n_5945518.html
http://www.kxxv.com/story/26395293/police-man-cuts-womans-neck-after-she-refused-his-advances
http://fox43.com/2013/01/27/woman-assaulted-with-stun-gun-after-she-refused-mans-sexual-advances/
http://whenwomenrefuse.tumblr.com/
This site was made only this year and already has almost 500 stories, imagine what it will look like in another year.
That, and my own personal experiences, are why I'm afraid when I see men walking towards me. What if he hits on me, and I end up one of those women? You don't know who will flip from rejection. I can't even use the "i have a boyfriend/husband" line a majority of women do because I don't, I have a girlfriend whom I soon to be married too, but saying that just invites MORE advances, and lines along like: ohh baby you don't know what you're missing, I can't do things she never could. And it just gets worse from there, and he ends up trying to convince me he can make us both happy, all the while I try to find a way out without pissing him off as I grow more and more fearful and uncomfortable.
THIS S*** ISN'T SUPPOSE TO BE HOW LIFE GOES JUST BECAUSE I HAVE A VAGINA!!!
Anyway....
I don't care about her movement, if she wants to continue to do so, then good for her. She has to realize that the majority of women do not agree with her (due to the fact of how they dress and how they act towards men in general) and she will basically get nothing through her movement.
But she can try.
Where are you getting that a majority of women don't agree with her? For 99% of all women, this is how life goes for us. The more sexy we dress the worse the attention, but even wearing casual clothes invites unwanted advances by seemingly entitled men, there's no escaping it.
Her video may cherry pick scenes, but for most women, this is everyday life.
It's not a movement to make life better and safer for women by bringing attention to problems we face, that's called seeking equality and protection. Something men take for granted.
Nobody deserves harassment, sexual or otherwise.
And nobody deserves to be fearful when someone walks towards you. (But that is how my life has been.)
Women often say: If you could walk a day in my shoes.
There is often a great truth and desire in that. If men had to live as women (in a woman's body) for even 1 day, you'd be thanking whatever god you believe in to wake up the next with your penis back, because the experience you'd gain, that is how women live every day.
And ***would change, fast.