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23 Nov 2010
newyork.cbslocal.com
NEW YORK: TABLES TURNED ON ALLEGED NYC SUBWAY FLASHER
Woman Decides She’s Fed Up And Not Going To Take It Anymore
She refused to stand there and take it.
So instead, the victim of a subway sexual assault decided to get even. She confronted a flasher right there on a crowded train.
Should you do the same thing?
It’s happened to many women when they’re riding the train – men exposing their genitals to people whom they think are vulnerable female straphangers.
“They have a saying; every monkey knows what tree to climb on…you know?” one woman said.
But apparently one sick man chose the wrong tree on this train. A rider posted a YouTube video of an unidentified woman accusing the man in black of flashing her on a “4″ train in midtown.
“I’m like why is this person pressing up against me? Then I realize you have all this (expletive) space here. Then I see his penis out! That’s it!”
And her furor didn’t end there.
“Oh you’re getting (expletive) arrested! I’m not leaving your side! My plans are done for tonight. I’m escorting you to the police station, okay?” the woman says.
Emily May posted the YouTube video on her website, ihollaback.org, an organization against street harassment. May said women are calling the fiery female an inspiration.
“She is my hero,” May said. “So many women have walked away from situations like that feeling like their voice didn’t matter, and she spoke up. And her voice is a voice for an entire city of women, many of which have seen things like this in their own lives.”
“I know what I saw. Where the (expletive) is the conductor?!” the woman says on the video.
Self-defense expert Gabrielle Rubin praised the rider for taking control.
Rubin’s advice is to play it safe and move away from the flasher if you’re alone. She encourages bystanders to speak up, too.
Speaking out really made a difference in this case. Police were able to quickly arrest 51-year-old Mario Valdivia of Queens. He’s been charged with forcible touching, public lewdness and sex abuse.
COMMENT
This gives a grossly skewed report of the event, for two reasons:
1 – The man is called a flasher many times over in the above report, but that is not correct. The man was frotting her; he was pressing up against her. Valdivia’s INTENT was to assault and that is how the law measures a crime – by the INTENTION. Valdivia’s action may or may not have been despicable, but his crime was NOT flashing, and indeed the police did NOT charge him with flashing! You see, that is the problem facing flashers. Every time something nasty happens out there, the person is labeled a flasher. The media don’t care and the public love it! The word “flasher” sells, and that is all they care about.
2 – The woman on the report is clearly outraged as she has every right to be, if she was frotted. But unfortunately the guy is called a flasher and (making unconscious associations) female readers will now feel outraged when they see some flashing, which is obviously NOT the same as frotting! Thus inaccurate reporting can have an unwarranted snowballing effect.
But hey…why spoil a good story with facts!?
Check out the website HERE!
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