[nerder92]

This comment was so useful to me, as a man i consider myself to be sensible enough to not be an harasser but it's true that from the standpoint of a white male it's very complicated to fully understand what women goes through.

I think exactly this is the reason why many mans perceive the sexual harassment and the sexist argument has overkill sometimes, basically it's an issue cause by a low exposure to it.

Thank you for this comment, i'll use it as an argument in sexism discussions trying to help other fellow mans to understand it.

[js2]

> it's very complicated to fully understand what women goes through.

“10 Hours of Walking in NYC as a Woman”

https://youtu.be/b1XGPvbWn0A

[Ewigkeit]

Yes, this is what it's like. Most of the men seem harmless but when someone starts to follow you it gets scary. This was in a populated area thankfully. A few years ago I attended a women who code meetup and two men decided to try and follow two women home, arguing that it wasn't illegal to walk on the street etc. They had to be threatened with someone calling the police and the women had to delay going home and stay with the group leaving the building before it was clear the men would leave them alone and they could safely walk away.

[matt-attack]

I would love to see this same experiment repeated in other cities. For some reason this seems very specific to NYC. Has anyone tried this in Los Angeles for example?

[sporkland]

It's definitely a thing in San Francisco.

[Balgair]

Yeah, not a problem!

Word of caution though, I may be misremembering the model and may be totally off base. I couldn't find the reference very easily, so if you'd like to use this argument yourself, try running a similar model through Excel/Python/R first. It'll give you a pretty good idea of the issues involved.

Happy coding and empathizing!