Althouse: "10 Hours of Walking in NYC as a Man."

October 30, 2014

"10 Hours of Walking in NYC as a Man."

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39 comments:

Unknown said...: Wadda YOU lookin' at?; 10/30/14, 2:13 PM
RecChief said...: hahahahaha; 10/30/14, 2:14 PM
Unknown said...: A Funny or Die that's actually funny?; 10/30/14, 2:23 PM
David said...: Pretty good, but did he get laid?; 10/30/14, 2:28 PM
Meade said...: Word on the street is he did get laid. On a mattress. A nothing really mattress® mattress.; 10/30/14, 3:03 PM
Paul said...: Girls checking out a crotch bulge on a train.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JV8JPZyJiuE; 10/30/14, 3:06 PM
Meade said...: Paul, are you sure that first girl really is a girl?

Come to think of it, are any of them really girls?; 10/30/14, 3:09 PM
averagejoe said...: Unknown said...
A Funny or Die that's actually funny?

10/30/14, 2:23 PM

LOL! My thought exactly! Three cheers for the patriarchy- Hip Hipster Hooray!...okay one cheer is plenty...; 10/30/14, 3:10 PM
Paul said...: "Paul, are you sure that first girl really is a girl?

Come to think of it, are any of them really girls?"

Having lived in San Fransisco and still performing there a lot I can guarantee that trannies never go out dressed like that. They are always done up.; 10/30/14, 3:18 PM
Anonymous said...: It's Pumpkin Spice season, Son!; 10/30/14, 3:21 PM
Anonymous said...: There should be a Part 2 of the original vid using a GoPro, so that it's completely from her perspective.; 10/30/14, 3:23 PM
jacksonjay said...: Funny but, very bad Karma. Mocking Her Majesty is not OK.; 10/30/14, 3:23 PM
Chuck said...: Eh.

I don't think the guy was walking down Christopher Street in the East Village. That might have really been something to laugh at.

There is such a fail quality to these two paired stunts. First the straight-faced one with the woman being harassed by an unending stream of black and Hispanic street urchins. Then the attempt at comedy with an ordinary-looking guy doing the same thing.

Both efforts are themselves vulnerable to what should rightly be parodied: the sexualized culture(s) of urban minorities, and gay males. But in the first video with the girl, they actually had to type out a formal discalaimer that, "Wait, some white guys did it too!" (When none were on film.) And in the second, comedic version, where they might easily have found some serious male-on-male leering, but it would have been hurtful to the gay community.

You can't make this stuff up. Although apparently, efforts are being made to do just that.; 10/30/14, 3:43 PM
Clark said...: Chuck: Christopher Street stops at 6th Avenue; it doesn't extend into the East Village.; 10/30/14, 4:13 PM
Matt said...: I don't get it. Isn't this how it is for everyone? What's funny about a normal walk through town?; 10/30/14, 4:32 PM
Toby said...: Eddie Murphy in white face on SNL 30+ years ago was so much funnier & more self aware; 10/30/14, 4:33 PM
Saint Croix said...: "Hey, buddy.

You want a turn at the grill?"

I love that bit. The stereotypes are so cruel!; 10/30/14, 4:45 PM
Saint Croix said...: A Funny or Die that's actually funny?

You must not have seen...

Sharklumbo; 10/30/14, 4:50 PM
Rick M said...: Paul's video is much funnier. Did even one women seek affirmative consent? My gawd, the micro-aggressions!; 10/30/14, 5:00 PM
FullMoon said...: There you go. Guy with flat chest gets nothing but stupid jokes. Girl with apparently nice tits gets serious admiration. And you wonder why implants are so popular.; 10/30/14, 5:14 PM
William said...: I live on the upper east side of Manhattan. It used to be called the girl ghetto because it was where young women fresh out of college could live in NY without undue hassle. There's still a lot of young women in the neighborhood. Some of them are professionally beautiful. The neighborhood is infested with models and actresses--though it's no so bad as SOHO where they've really taken over. Anyway, from what I can see these girls are not subject to any abuse or even come-ons when they're out and about......I'd like that girl to duplicate her experiment on the UES or Minneapolis or Sacramento. She could get a Guggenheim Grant to go to every major city in America and repeat the experiment. They could collate the number of catcalls with the prevalence of divorce, rape, and obesity in each city. I'm sure these things are all connected. I bet cities with Republican mayors have the highest incidence of catcalls,; 10/30/14, 5:17 PM
ALP said...: First the straight-faced one with the woman being harassed by an unending stream of black and Hispanic street urchins.
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That's what I find so fascinating about the general female response to the original video. Many seem itching to come out and say: "how DARE these swarthy, marginalized, low earners even attempt to SPEAK to a middle class, college educated woman with big professional dreams." The class/culture dynamics are glossed right over, when in most cases, that aspect of any issue is analyzed to death.

I think it would be a real conundrum should another video arise and go viral: the woman in the original video at her last spring break vacation in Panama City Beach - drunk off her ass and flashing her tits.

One can dream.; 10/30/14, 5:20 PM
CatherineM said...: Toby - I thought the same thing. Eddie Murphy in "white face" where he found out white people don't have to pay for anything, etc.

This made me laugh.; 10/30/14, 5:36 PM
CatherineM said...: ALP - I have no idea what you are talking about. So it's not the comments or the guy trailing you for a mile, it's racism? If she went topless and got drunk she shouldn't complain about public comments from male strangers on her body?; 10/30/14, 5:41 PM
Lucien said...: All those football the guy got and did he flash even one Heisman pose?

Entitled jerk.; 10/30/14, 5:42 PM
CatherineM said...: Paul - I have never known a woman to check out a guys stuff.

We look at your face, teeth, grooming, shoulders.; 10/30/14, 5:53 PM
Paul said...: "Paul - I have never known a woman to check out a guys stuff.

We look at your face, teeth, grooming, shoulders."

I used to work with a blues artist, a short, portly, homely man who had a proverbial horsecock and would wear tight, shiny pants displaying his thing going halfway down his leg. Girls used to stare at it transfixed. It provided us with hours of entertainment.

They definitely were not looking at his face, teeth, grooming, or shoulders...; 10/30/14, 6:00 PM
n.n said...: This comment has been removed by the author.; 10/30/14, 6:03 PM
n.n said...: Correction: as a "White" Man. There was an unmistakeable air of privilege, which concluded with his appointment as king of the world!

This was actually a case of racial harassment, and perhaps orientation harassment, too. The football symbolism was self-evident and recurring in multiple scenes. The barbecue scene did little to quell my concerns about the harassers' ulterior motives.; 10/30/14, 6:05 PM
bbkingfish said...: I wondered how long it would take, and they did a damn fine job.; 10/30/14, 6:14 PM
n.n said...: This comment has been removed by the author.; 10/30/14, 6:16 PM
n.n said...: Sexual Harassment while Geek and Sheik

I think the lesson learned from "10 Hours while Walking" as a man or woman, and the above investigative report, is that appearance matters.; 10/30/14, 6:19 PM
TJ Swift said...: CatharineM couldn't miss the point any more if she were trying, although I suspect she might be already. It takes well trained crimestop to watch a video filmed by a progressive group, in a racially diverse city, purporting to show harassment by men, but only succeeding in showing harassment by poor minority men, and conclude absent any evidence that harassment has nothing to do with race or class.; 10/30/14, 6:26 PM
TJ Swift said...: Next on the list of 'Things Women Should Be Able To Do' according to CatharineM is apparently walking around drunk and topless while every person around her abstains from commenting. Tell us CatharineM, in addition to voluntarily giving up their first amendment right to accommodate drunk, topless girl, should the men avert their eyes as well, lest she feel judged, or, perhaps just bow in her general direction to ensure she feels the esteem she deserves?; 10/30/14, 6:35 PM
Robert Cook said...: "I used to work with a blues artist, a short, portly, homely man who had a proverbial horsecock and would wear tight, shiny pants displaying his thing going halfway down his leg. Girls used to stare at it transfixed. It provided us with hours of entertainment.

"They definitely were not looking at his face, teeth, grooming, or shoulders..."

Well...you gotta work with what you've got!

That aside, I'm a straight man but if I saw a dude on the train or walking in public displaying a horsecock through tight trousers, I'd certainly look. Doesn't everyone find physical anomalies--particularly over-abundant physical development--startling and fascinating?; 10/31/14, 7:17 AM
virgil xenophon said...: Get free food and beer just by walking? Who knew?; 10/31/14, 8:20 AM
Paul said...: "That aside, I'm a straight man but if I saw a dude on the train or walking in public displaying a horsecock through tight trousers, I'd certainly look."

Hopefully you wouldn't stare transfixed lest your claim to staightness be suspect.; 10/31/14, 9:36 AM
CatherineM said...: Comparative Dis. Was the walking woman in the 10hrs walking video drunk? Was she topless? You must have watched a different video than the one AA posted.; 10/31/14, 11:33 AM
Robert Cook said...: "Hopefully you wouldn't stare transfixed lest your claim to staightness be suspect."

Heh. I don't stare transfixed even when I see someone I am attracted to. I steal sidelong glances, but staring is just...rude and gross.; 10/31/14, 7:05 PM