And I’m with you on the car-free thing. I live wayy down in the boonies in Carson, but I’m staying dedicated to my cause.

I’m not trying to paint this really negative picture, but there is that thing.

Now I rememeber when I was in Los Feliz there was a several homeless men of color and they were very polite to just about everyone, but me. Anytime I walked by their various spots they would curse me out and call me a bitch and yell horrible things to me, but when I was with my white women friends this didn’t happen and they thought some of these guys were real sweet.

I’ve seen this scenario play out on many different occassions.

I’m not saying that brown women and black women have it worse, but in some ways it’s like sharing the ethnicity of a group of people in a heavy gang area is way more dangerous than not sharing that ethnicity, because they know you aren’t part of that gang, but us, well we might not matter either (and if you looked at the more mainstream feminist circles hey maybe we don’t,) so maybe in their heads they can get away with f*cking with us just a bit more than they would a white person or in this case a white woman.

I know there seems to be this picture of this interracial crime, but most crime and sexual harassment (the aggressive type) is intrarracial in manner, because “at home” you feel safe to be your self.

Now I want to stress this is not a cultural thing, this is a poverty cycle thing and owing to racism, historical denial of education in LA the people who fit within this demographic tend to be men of color, but its not because they are men of color that they act this way. It’s because they are poor because I’m sure poor men who don’t have power of any race have the potential to act this way.

Anyways I wrote a post about my feelings on this, inspired from this post:

http://www.thebusbench.com/2008/12/point-blank-sexism-notes-from-the-bus.html

Browne

I was just visiting my folks in Brooklyn Heights, and traveling around that neighborhood and other parts of Brooklyn and Manhattan was very pleasant. I didn’t get approached by any creeps and just about everyone I encountered was friendly and/or polite. Doubtless there are other parts of NYC where this may not be the case — never forget that New York has had its share of hate crimes and intolerance over the years — but speaking for myself, I’ve experienced very little harassment there. I recall a few incidents, but I can count them on one hand.

I’m a bit tired of changing my route and having to go all the way around the block.

Great info and I also agree with Jody’s point of what’s up with requiring a license for sustainable jobs, that is a little bit of bs.

Browne