i thought 65% for women seemed absurdly low but then there's this bit
- One of the other issues was getting study participants to accurately identify harassment. Public, sexual harassment is so normal that harassees do not always mentally flag their experiences as something serious, unless physically aggressive harassment is involved.
“Some people would say, ‘I was only harassed once,’ and would recount a physical experience, but as the conversation continued, there were verbal experiences that came up,” Kearl said.
decent discussion on metafilter http://www.metafilter.com/139648/stop-street-harassment
I have trouble believing there is anyone that hasn't experienced street harassment. I was flashed several times when I was a kid. I've been verbally harassed in countless times while living in cities, everything from racial shit, to drunk and crazy people. Anyone here never experienced anything that meets the relative low bar for harassment presented here? I can't say It's had any long term negative effect on me whatsoever.