You've probably seen the new Hollaback PSA video, which documents the obscene amount of street harassment that one woman received while walking through New York. But here's even more depressing news: apparently the subject of the film has become the target of rape threats online.
The anti-street harassment organisation says that anons have been threatening Shoshana B Roberts in the comments on the video. It pleaded with viewers to start reporting the threats to YouTube.
10 Hours of Walking in NYC as a Woman has already been viewed over 1.17 million times since it was uploaded on Tuesday. Hollaback commissioned the video to demonstrate how much unwanted attention women received on a day-to-day basis.
Roberts was filmed by a secret camera hidden in the backpack of the person walking ahead of her. After walking through Manhattan in jeans, trainers and a black crew-neck, Roberts had received over 100 cat calls from strangers. One man even followed her down a busy street for five minutes.
"The rape threats indicate that we are hitting a nerve," Hollaback director Emily May told Newsday. "We want to do more than just hit a nerve though, we want New Yorkers to realize – once and for all – that street harassment isn't OK, and that as a city we refuse to tolerate it."
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