Holy crap, relax. I was referring to the o.p.'s comment about the beach being destroyed. Don't take things so personally.

I understand being annoyed by restricted access to the beach during construction, though I recall she did it in the dead of winter, and as a local resident I know that area is pretty much dead starting in October. In fact I thought the original hubbub with the public was mostly about the beach access road being…

The difference is that, at least according to the state, she rebuilt based on the previous markings of the original seawall, so I wouldn't consider it some shady privacy scam like what happens in Malibu. I can see how the public might be peeved by restricted beach access during construction (although she did it in the…

I too live in the area. But the point remains: the state approved it, it was completely legal, and they actually requested she do specific things for it. The public can complain all they want about her but she didn't actually do anything wrong.

That story was entirely overblown. She repaired the seawall below her house, which was built there by previous owners and fallen into disrepair. The boulders that she supposedly pulled up from the ocean floor were originally part of the wall that had fallen apart. Yes, she probably did it in part to increase the…

Ugh, yes. The honking and hollering from cars is WAY worse than average every day street harassment because whenever it happens I feel like I'm about to get kidnapped.

I am not saying ignore it. If someone is going around saying, "only minorities do this," (and I'm sure it's there because this is the internet and it's youtube) then definitely call them on their racist bullshit. What I am saying is don't decide to ignore this video because of its problems. It's problems with race are…

Exactly.

But what's happened is that the conversation has been deliberately hijacked to make it about race instead of about harassment which just degrades both issues. I just think its ridiculous that this has become the focus of the conversation when we all know, THROUGH EXPERIENCE, that it is not true. Just because you're…

But the answer to her question is obviously yes. The more time you spend in a place the more likely you are to be harassed in it. (I, for example, have been harassed in midtown. In a suit! On a way to a job interview! TWICE!)

In fairness 2/3rds of the video are where she's being followed by 2 different guys. The video does not actually show that many instances of cat calling, it just tells you it happened. So as a survey sample, we can both agree it's pretty poor.

She was in Times Sq. There's a shot of her next to the Duane Reade on 42nd & 8th about 50 seconds in.

Their final (admittedly edited down) video showed a white women wandering through black and Latino neighborhoods in New York, because the white ones weren't open?

Except that, according to reports, in the pretrial Rice told the court in detail what had happened. Add to that the differences in size and strength between the two of them I think everybody already believed it was vicious.

This is basically what they did in the show, it's just that the actors in SBTB were better at it.

Uuuuuugh. I've known a few girls like that. My view of them is that they're mostly weird-o attention seekers. They view their religion as being part of their uniqueness and feel the need to talk about it ALL THE TIME. (I went to hebrew school with one of them. She would cry when anybody even MENTIONED Israel — and not…

Rolling in his grave, obviously.

Agreed. These before shots are blurred and washed out to the point where it looks like the leaker snapped them with their phone and sent them on their way.

I feel the same way! I grew up in a very upper class area but was always made aware of how completely lucky I was. Which is why I'm calling ridiculous teen bullshit on some of these. Some of it is way too shocking and out of touch with the way a human being behaves so I'm pretty sure they're mostly set up and staged…

I read a teen space opera recently. It was okay. I prefer teen fantasy novels.