Location: Langley Park, Silver Spring (MD) Time: Daytime (9:30am-3:30pm) As a guy, street harassment is something I haven’t always noticed a great deal. I grew up in Boston, and it just wasn’t something that I saw very often. I can remember maybe one or two instances, and I’m sure that it was very annoying and possibly frightening […]
Location: Elm St. and Woodmont Ave. (Maryland) Time: Daytime (9:30am-3:30pm) I was walking down the street in a nice white t-shirt and a-line skirt, and a man looked at my face, then down at my breasts, and said, “That’s some nice goodies you got there.” Emphases by CASS. Submitted 5/17/13 by “R.D.” Do you have a personal […]
Location: Walking from Dupont to Howard U Time: Daytime (9:30am-3:30pm) Walking home from my job in Dupont, I was harassed in varying degrees of lewdness no less than six times — and that’s just what I noticed with my headphones in. Everything from gross sound effects to people singing songs about my ass as I walk by to […]
Location: Inside the Cleveland Park metro station Time: Evening Rush Hour (3:30pm-7:30pm) Just as the train approached, a group of noisy 4-5 teenage boys ran behind me. I thought they were running to relocate to a different part of the train. I felt a hand quickly tap the underside of my left butt cheek and I heard […]
Location: Mt. Pleasant Street and Park Road NW Time: Evening Rush Hour (3:30pm-7:30pm) Seeing CASS’s posts in my Facebook feed recently has made me more aware of street harassment and more emboldened to respond. Several days ago, two young men were walking behind me, talking generally about the rear ends of women of a certain race (my race). […]