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.@JoyceCarolOates For starters, @iHollaback seriously needs to step up and take responsibility for racist shit like what JCO is saying.

.@JoyceCarolOates But I want to address JCO's assumption that harassment doesn't happen "in affluent" Fifth Avenue or Park Avenue.

.@JoyceCarolOates We need to think about who's allowed to be a victim of harassment and who's always and already criminal.

.@JoyceCarolOates For example, talk to people of color who walk up Park Ave to get to Harlem. You think they're not harassed daily by cops?!

.@JoyceCarolOates But although these people of color face constant street harassment from the state itself, their torment is illegible.

For @JoyceCarolOates, the idea that women aren't harassed in "affluent" areas means she's already only thinking about white women.

.@JoyceCarolOates To be honest, tho, I'm not at all sure that white women aren't harassed on Park Ave. In fact, I'm guessing they are.

.@JoyceCarolOates OR the guy on Astor Place who honked his car horn and called at me.

.@JoyceCarolOates Or the guy who harassed me as I was walking into my apartment in Chelsea. Need any more examples?

Um...MT @JoyceCarolOates Would be very surprised if women walking alone were harassed in affluent midtown NYC (5th Ave,ParkAve.), WashSqPark

1) Surprise, @JoyceCarolOates: #streetharassment began for me @ 11yo in BrightonBeach, Bklyn. Since then: WashSqPark+Chelsea+UpperWestSide+

2) my NYC #streetharassment list continues @JoyceCarolOates, in Soho+Wall St+UpperEastSide+Park Slope+BrooklynHeights+DitmasPark+Midwood+

3) &many others, @JoyceCarolOates, both affluent&low-income. This isn't simply my experience--researchers document in #streetharassment map.

4) To assume #streetharassment is just a behavior of poor men, @JoyceCarolOates, is to reinforce dangerously inaccurate steroetypes. This is

5) #streetharassment is not a poor men (or men of color) problem--it's male control+sexualization of women in public space, @JoyceCarolOates