Coonery and Buffoonery

Coonery and Buffoonery

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"I want to crawl into a hole in the sidewalk somewhere and just die."

~the words of a fellow blogger who has endured street harassment. If men are making women feel this way, I don't know why they insist on doing it.

I am a multiracial female college student and I created this site as an outlet for my frustration. Why am I frustrated? Well day in and day out, I am harassed and belittled on the public buses and on the streets. Oftentimes, these men are old enough to be my father or grandfather. Unless you are my peer and you have something to offer me (such as respect for starters), then leave me alone. Do not eye rape me. Do not talk about me loud enough for me to hear and then expect me not to hear it (this isn't middle school boys). Do not even say "hey" to me if you can't do it without sexual undertones (it's not what you say it is how you say it). Do not persistantly bother me when I want to be left alone. Do not play games with me for your enjoyment. I am not a whore...how dare these "men" scream things at me like I'm some stripper or a pole or make noises at me like I'm some animal. Do not invade my space. Simply leave people alone. You don't know what people have been through or what they are going through.

Now here's the kicker...I have noticed that there is a special "type" of man who does this. In at least 90% of the cases of harassment I've experienced, a black man was the harasser. In about 10% of the cases, it is a Hispanic/Mestizo male. In a very small number of cases, it is the white man (but a white man with a certain type of beliefs...we'll get to that later). I am not a racist, I am a realist and my eyes don't lie to me--they can't. I am multiracial myself so this is not some KKK propaganda. It is what I have seen. As you can see from the title, this site is about Coonery and Buffoonery. All blacks are not coons, but the ignorant harassers are called coons. The Hispanic harassers are Mexicoons. The buffoonery is done by what else but buffoons? Who are the buffoons? They're ignorant white men who harass. They do exist but in smaller numbers than the black and Hispanic harassers. Yes, you may come across some racial slurs on this site or on my blog https://fedupwcandb.tripod.com/blog. But, I feel that if you don't treat women as they should be treated, you embody the stereotype of the racial slur and that's what you're going to be called. Get over it if the language bothers you. In the words of harassers, "you're taking this too serious sweetheart, lighten up" (*snicker*).

I am not alone in my experiences. I'll give links to other women with similar experiences when possible. Check out this link http://www.streetharassmentproject.org/archives/index.php3?id=29

Why should I be sensitive to your race,

when you are not sensitive to my gender?

Here I might add an entry whenever I make an update to my web site. This website is updated regularly and the blog is updated daily or almost daily. Where appropriate, I'll include a link to the change. For example:

11/1/01 - Added new info to the FAQ page.

"The street harassment from the black men in the neighborhood is horrendous. "

~Brigette Moore, a BLACK woman. She is an assistant art director in children's publishing; founder and president of black grrrl revolution.org and of Moore Awareness.com, a problackgrrrl indie Web-based record label, film production company, and book publisher)