Earlier this summer, Lindsey began handing out cards to Minneapolis men, explaining what’s wrong with street harassment.
"'Bitch' means that you're sexy."
Several weeks ago, 28-year-old Minneapolis resident Lindsey was standing on an escalator when a stranger began touching her hair and calling her "blondie." When she told the man he "could just say 'hi' next time," she said, he began screaming at her and calling her ugly. The situation reminded Lindsey — a longtime confronter of catcallers, most notably in last year's Craigslist ad gone viral — that while she could control her reaction to street harassers, she couldn't always anticipate their reaction to being confronted.
It was then she had the idea for Cards Against Street Harassment — pocket-sized cards women could download, print, and hand out to their catcallers, explaining why the attention was unwanted without even speaking.
"When you walk down the street do random strangers comment on how you look?" one card asks. "No? Wow. That must be nice."
Of course, Lindsey still engages with the men she encounters. But now, with the cards as her platform, she films the conversations as a "cathartic extra response," she told BuzzFeed.
"I am genuinely interested in what place this is coming from," said Lindsey, who asked to only be identified by her first name. Lindsey's tone in the videos is obviously confrontational, but also curious — never combative.
"The first time that I caught it, I was just on the phone with my sister and the guy interrupted my phone call and tried to hug me," she said.
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