Nice Ass, Sweetheart!

By Lauri Apple in Miscellaneous on Oct 6, 2008 6:30PM

Thought that would get your attention. If you're a woman, you've probably fielded that and similar comments many times while walking down the street. (Our personal favorites: "Give me a smile!" and "Shake that shit.") Now you can put your encounters with whistlers, honkers, booty-touchers and the like to good use: Researcher Holly Kearl is writing a book on street harassment, and as part of her data collection has posted this anonymous online survey. Interestingly, the 10-minute questionnaire also asks harassers what sorts of creepalicious behaviors they've engaged in on the street (and if you do find yourself checking off the "yes" box to "masturbate in front of them," please seek professional help) and how their victims responded. "My hope is to provide resources and strategies for those bothered by street harassment and help those who don't think it's a problem to understand that it is," Kearl says on her Website.

News of Kearl's project came to us via the anti-harassment group HollaBackNYC, whose Chicago chapter runs a blog where you can share your experiences and pictures of homegrown lecherousness.