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WASHPO: D.C.’s fight against street harassment

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They had both heard of  Hollaback, a New York Web site inspired by a woman who snapped a photo of a man masturbating on the subway, posted it on the Internet and watched as the public and police took notice. The site became a haven for women seeking to vent. Shenoy and Lynberg decided that if the two of them had stories to tell, other Washingtonians probably did, too, and set out to launch a D.C. branch of the site.
Since the site went live in March 2009, more than 600 anecdotes about harassment have found a home there, from accounts of being groped or witnessing public masturbation to complaints about wolf whistles or whispered come-ons. Shenoy and Lynberg say they don’t distinguish among them.
“It’s not up to the two of us to decide if this is street harassment,” Shenoy says. “Who are we to say?”
They call every person who submits a story a “survivor.”