CAT CALLING COUNTER
Catcalling is a form of sexual harassment without physical contact which especially female embodied people experience. It includes staring, inappropriate comments & noises.
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Catcalling reinforces a culture in which violence against female embodied people is seen as normal. It creates an atmosphere of insecurity in public spaces.
The opportunity
There are diverse reasons for catcalling like seeing it as a learned social behavior or as a really toxic attempt of trying to get in contact gives various possibilities on how to approach the problem.
But before working on the reasons for catcalling, we need to find a solution for the moment when catcalling is happening.
The idea
CatCallingCounter is an App which affected people can use to register place & time of catcalling in only 2 seconds. It gives you the possibility to react/respond to catcalling in a safe & subtle way.
The collected data are the base for targeted interventions and will be published e.g. as a heat map in order to make the problem visible for every group of the society, create empathy and can reinforce a social debate about catcalling.
