Catcalling And Social Media

Catcalling is everywhere when it should be nowhere! From the long coasts of California to the bustling highways of New York there are disrespectful men roaming the streets. Catcalling is very disrespectful, it shouldn’t be as common as it is because, it’s embarrassing to the women, it makes her feel objectified, and straight up scary!

Have you ever been walked down the street and had a random stranger whistle or comment about your sexual features? If so then you have experienced what many would call cat-calling. Cat-calling is when a person yells or whistles to attract attention from another person in the hopes of achieving their goals. The gender that experiences this form of harassment the most are women. For the example the Onion did a satirical article on how weird it felt for Caitlin Levy when she was not harassed. In many ways this satirical article can be viewed as humorous but it diminishes the seriousness of this form of harassment. When one female is not verbally harassed, could this be considered funny especially when many woman are fighting to end this form of

Any sort of derogatory term, from insulting someone for being LGBTQIA+ to being too sexually

Discrimination and harassment can come in different forms, some discrimination could be seen as indirect for example a care worker spending an extra ten minutes with client A because they get on with them better than the next client, client B therefore rushing the client B’s session, while this may seem only minor at the time client B isn’t receiving all of the time they are entitled to and a lower standard of care therefore this would be seen as discrimination and could be sent to court. Most acts however are direct and have more meaning behind them this could be presented in many different form verbal and physical is the most common way delivering harassment and it could be of a race, sex, faith or other difference to discriminate on. However

Harassment is “undesirable behavior identified with an important protected characteristic, which has the reason or impact of damaging an individual's dignity or creating intimidating, threatening, degrading, humiliating or offensive environment for that individual".

Abuse is regrettably a more common part of our society and is described by Margaret O. Hyde in her work, Know About Abuse, as an, “harmful, injurious, or offensive treatment”(Hyde 4). Abuse is usually only limited to the physical signs, such as; the red ribbons left from the lash of a belt or the blooming bruises from the drop of a fist. Rarely do those take the time to see the trauma and chaos caused by hateful, derogatory, or misused words. Forms of abuse, such as verbal abuse, are so common they have managed to integrate into social norms that include catcalling, slurs, shaming, and other such forms. This affect of chronic name calling can be seen in Stacy A. Teicher’s, Boys vs. Girls:

The Fair Employment and Housing Act defines harassment because of sex as including sexual harassment, gender harassment, and harassment based on pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions. The Fair Employment and Housing Commission regulations define sexual harassment as unwanted sexual advances, or visual, verbal or physical conduct of a sexual nature. This definition includes many forms of offensive behavior and includes gender-based harassment of a person of the same sex as the harasser. The following is a partial list of violations: Unwanted sexual advances, Offering employment benefits in exchange for sexual favors, Making or threatening reprisals after a negative response to sexual advances, Visual conduct: leering, making sexual gestures, displaying of suggestive objects or pictures, cartoon or posters, Verbal conduct: making or using derogatory comments, epithets, slurs, and jokes, Verbal sexual advances or propositions, Verbal abuse of a sexual nature, graphic verbal commentaries about an individual 's body, sexually degrading words used to describe an individual, suggestive or obscene letters, notes or invitations, Physical conduct: touching, assault, impeding or blocking movements. (Dept of Fair housing California website, 2016)

Sexual harassment is any unwanted or unwelcomed attention whether it is by touching or talking in a way he/she doesn’t like. “Approximately 15,000 sexual harassment cases are brought to the equal employment opportunity commission (EEOC) each year.” These numbers reflect where people speak up wanting justice for their case. All over the world, not just America, this is a major problem for women and some men but mainly women.

Bullying for this paper: Any act of harassment, intimidation, whether physical, verbal or telecommunicated (cyber/text) that makes a person feel demeaned, belittled, fearful, or endangered. Since doing this research I find that each article defines bullying in a different way. I

This type of abuse is when people treat other individuals different for instance, their weight, skin colour, gender, race, age, culture, religion etc. The abuse could vary from physical or verbal, harassment and deliberate segregation, rejection of basic human and civil rights which could include failing to encounter someone’s beliefs and values and racist drawings or bringing racial resources into a person’s home such as magazines or

Sexual harassment in a workplace or professional setting is known as making of an unwanted sexual past or obscene remarks. Harassment normally occur to women in the workplace. Sexual harassment is a form of sex discrimination that violates Title VII Civil Rights Act of 1964 (U.S EEOC, 2017). There has been many lawsuits or court cases regarding sexual harassment in workplaces today. Some cases are hard to analyze because of the different type of harassment situations.

The first time I remember being catcalled I was 16 years old walking from the parking lot to my high school. The parking lot was only three blocks away, but it still gave the two grown men slowly following me in their car enough time to repeatedly ask me what grade I was in.

In the world we live in today, people have the opportunity to interact with one another due to the advancement in technology. For many years people relied on the traditional ways of communications, for example pay phones, send letters, a house phone, in person and they even used web cam’s. Presently, people rely on modern day methods of communication such as sending text messages, emails or even messaging via social. The development of the internet has made it so much easier for people to communicate that Social Media has become the place where people interact more than ever in a mere second.

Please also keep in mind that a harasser can be male or female and can be of the same sex as the victim. The harasser may not always know that they are being offensive but if the other person is uncomfortable and has stated this to them then he or she should stop before legal action is brought forth.

Harassment usually is instigated by heterosexual males either trying to pick up a female or teasing a homosexual. Harassment usually begins in the