Catcalling and Street Harasment

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I have honestly wanted to do this post for a while, but I didn't know how to go about it. Now in light of recent news I think I can. This week a video went viral of a lady walking around New York City for ten hours, and in that ten hour period she was harassed over ONE HUNDRED times.

 It doesnt' matter what you are wearing, who you are, or anything this happens to most women. Up until recently I had never experienced it. A couple weeks ago I was in NYC for a concert, and twice when I was at the bus terminal I was harassed. The first time I was I had taken off my makeup, and I was a mess from the concert. I was in a pair of leggings a sweater, and a jacket. The second time was about a hour latter in another bus terminal. Both of them complemented me in ways that made me uncomfortable, and tried to ask me where I lived. It was probably one of the scariest moments I've ever had because I did not know what they were capable of especially with cases of women getting killed because they reject a man's advances happening quite often.

It can happen in any environment. Even Congress. Senator Kristen Gillibrand wrote about that she had been sexually harassed by her male colleagues. She had gotten some back lash from some of the news channels in what is nothing but victim blaming. Saying things like that she should have given the names, and ratted out the people that she has to see at her job everyday. 

I would like to end this post with a segment from The Daily Show. It was a follow up piece to the Kristen Gillibrand story. One of the responses to her story was that a news caster said that the way he likes to catcall women on the street is with clapping at them, and that it normally makes them smile, and had a 90% success rate

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Video Game Marketing

About 5 days a week I find myself in a game store for a average of 7-8 hours with video game commercials constantly playing in the background so I find myself analyzing what is around me, and I don't always like what I see. It hit me today how bad it really is. We got in a standee of this that was put at the front of our store next to the door

If you have played GTAV then you will know that there is no female main character and that this is not even a real character in the game. They had the same marketing for the original release of GTAV

This women is on the actual disks for the game and on just about every piece of merchandise for the game including a headset box. She is not a playable character or even a important one. She is the daughter of one of the main characters and is honestly not a very good character. Then why are they used to market the game?

Because honestly there is nothing really striking about the man characters. They are very generic. In the game you can customize them to a degree but it doesn't matter what you do to them in the game how they look doesn't change the way anyone in the game looks or thinks about them unless you pull out a gun.

On the subject of generic main characters in the past couple years it seems to be that the majority of main game characters have been very generic. Far Cry, Bioshock, The Last of us ect. They all have main characters that honestly have the same features.Chad Concelmo's article brown hair and stubble sums this up very well and has great photo representation if you want to read more.

I will leave off with this commercial for Battlefield 4 and Axe (which to me honestly is a weird combination and a stupid commercial) where you can see that the man in the commercial is very simply made, his hair doesn't move and he honestly doesn't have many distinctive features. The women on the other hand you can tell when they made her that they took their time. Her hair moves when it comes out of the helmet and when she walk, and she has makeup despite being in the middle of war,