#NoWomanEver exposes everyday misogyny
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I was driving down West Seventh Street in St. Paul at rush hour -- which is a nicer way of saying "I was stuck and going nowhere" -- the other day when a guy in a sports car of some sort, top down, passed on the right and pulled up next to the woman at the stoplight and honked. She looked over and he offered a piece of paper...presumably a note with a phone number perhaps. She declined. He laughed and sped off.
I take as some comfort the fact that I, a man, am still shocked at stuff like this, just as I was yesterday while sitting on the patio at Afro Deli and watched a woman just try to walk down the plaza -- just trying to walk -- and being catcalled by men walking in the other direction.
We men can't even begin to fathom how exhausting it must be just to get through the day as a woman.
That's why the hashtag that's trending on Twitter this week -- #NoWomanEver -- should be required reading by men, but probably won't be.
It documents the harassment that women endure daily.
BuzzFeed says it started on Saturday when a 37-year-old Atlanta woman began posting the descriptions of street harassment. But it likely could've been any woman anywhere.
Archive: When it comes to women, men are going back to the ’50s (NewsCut)
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