HOLLA-worthy Link Round-Up

• Comedian Sasheer Zamata gets real (and real funny!) about her experience with a flasher.
• Janet Mock tells the story of the worst street harassment she has every experienced through a series of tweets.
• Tangerine Eater shares the ways that she chooses to deal with street harassment. I like, “That’s actually NOT my name.”
• A Hollaback three years in the making, Deja Beamon shares her experiences with harassment at Duke University.
• “As Hannah pointed out earlier, we don’t lift weights in order to look hot, especially for the likes of men like that. What makes them think that we even WANT them to find us attractive? If you do, thanks very much, we’re flattered. But if you don’t, why do you really need to voice this opinion in the first place, and what makes you think we actually give a toss that you, personally, do not find us attractive? What do you want us to do? Shall we stop weightlifting, amend our diet in order to completely get rid of our ‘manly’ muscles, and become housewives in the sheer hope that one day you will look more favourably upon us and we might actually have a shot with you?! Cause you are clearly the kindest, most attractive type of man to grace the earth with your presence.
  

  Oh but wait, you aren’t. This may be shocking to you, but we actually would rather be attractive to people who aren’t closed-minded and ignorant. Crazy, eh?! We, as any women with an ounce of self-confidence would, prefer our men to be confident enough in themselves to not feel emasculated by the fact that we aren’t weak and feeble.” -Olympic weightlifter Zoe Smith

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