Have yall seen this shit?! Black women cannot even pump gas without being harassed. This was both terrifying and disgusting to watch, and what was worse was the narration, like it was somehow supposed to be a compliment to be degraded and damn near assaulted. I’ve seen folks on Twitter go so far as to claim the woman in the video must have liked the attention because she can be seen smiling. Those are people who are privileged to have never experienced this kind of humiliating experience (or tried to convince themselves that it was okay). I too remember smiling back at the older men who used to accost me on my walk home from school, mostly out of fear that if I was perceived as “being rude,”I was more likely to be assaulted or raped. I remember day after day trying to figure out what would be the best route to take home that would garner the least amount of attention, but enough visibility that if shit went down, someone would hear me scream. These are calculations I had to make at 12. Some girls and women learned this math of survival earlier, some later, but all of us had to learn it at some point. In 2019, we must bring as end to this culture of fear, entitlement, and degradation that has too long permitted men to behave this way.
*This video and related tweets are not mine, and proper attribution should be provided to https://twitter.com/NaomixSuicide/ and whoever Kevin Warren is (the asshole who posted this to snapchat like it was something to be entertained by…)*
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