15 Facts About Street harassment

Street harassment often includes homophobic and transphobic slurs, and hateful comments referencing race, religion, class, ethnicity and disability.

For men, the most common Street harassment was homophobic or transphobic slurs, followed by unwanted following, then catcalling and comments on body parts.

Recipients of Street harassment describe physical symptoms as muscle tension, having trouble breathing, dizziness, and nausea.

Street harassment evokes from its targets emotional responses that range from moderate annoyance to intense fear.

Street harassment severely restricts the physical and geographical mobility of women.

In recent studies, street harassment was linked to indirect consequences that decrease the quality of women's lives.

Poor mental health has been found to be linked to street harassment caused by paranoia that certain spaces are not safe.

Stranger Street harassment reduces feelings of safety while walking alone at night, using public transportation, walking alone in a parking garage, and while home alone at night.

Female recipients of street harassment react differently to both innocent and uncivil attitudes they receive from men.

Author Elizabeth Arveda Kissling's research reveals that many female tourists traveling in different countries witness forms of street harassment that are seemingly less severe such as wolf-whistling and following and they consider those actions as ego-boosters rather than an inconvenience.

Whether street harassment is read as flattering or offensive, it is considered an arbitrary action that dehumanizes people.

Mild street harassment is likely to be seen harmless and welcoming to some women; thus some theorists evaluate these women as the "victims of false consciousness" who lack self-value and feminism within them.

In 2010, Stop Street Harassment started the annual "International Anti-Street Harassment Week".

Penalties for acts of street harassment were set at fines of Php 1,000 to Php 5,000 and a 1-month jail term.

Contrary to popular belief, it is not just those who are unaffected by street harassment that hold this ideal; victims and survivors of offensive speech and hate speech are reluctant to advocate against this First Amendment right.