Sexual harassment/sexualization/rape culture has gotten out of hand

Good day to you, too.I'd like to note that the topic and opening of this debate make no mention of gender, and thus I feel it would not be enough for me to simply show that men are being harassed just as much as women, but rather I should demonstrate the lack of a rape culture/sexual harassment, etc. As such, my BoP becomes larger than simply refuting Pro's claims, and I will thus provide evidence and arguments in favor of my position.I'll start off by refuting your paragraphs; I'll get into each video/source (I'd like to note I took a look at all of them) below each respective paragraph refutation.REBUTTALSexual Harassment:I agree with all your definitions in this paragraph, to get semantics out of the way. You start off your paragraph with a very bold claim that women face harassment every day. Firstly, I don't really see any concrete evidence of this. All you've really provided are a couple videos; which I'll get to later. You then move on to talk about the severity and effects of the harassment, which I will also address later. One claim I can refute without referring to the videos, however, is that feminism has been "struggling to gain recognition of sexual harassment", which, I think, is the surface of your broader point, which is that sexual harassment and other such issues are underrepresented in the media. This I must disagree with, because if we look at how many news sites have covered exactly the same harassment video you present, we'll find:http://thedailyshow.cc.com...http://www.huffingtonpost.com...http://www.slate.com...http://abcnews.go.com...http://dailycaller.com...http://www.usatoday.com...http://www.bbc.com...http://www.cnn.com...http://www.newsweek.com...http://hereandnow.wbur.org...Among many others. I thought 10 was enough. This is clearly anything but underrepresented, with the video on youtube having over 36 million views. Not to mention how mainstream feminism has become in modern day. If anything these issues are viral, much like the videos presented. And with that perfect segue, let's jump right into the videos.The first video (), as I'm sure you are all familiar with, has a woman walking around New York City for 10 hours and allegedly being subjected to 100 instances of sexual harassment. "Now, what kinds of sexual harassment may you find in this video?" you may ask. Well, the most common catcall in the video was actually "good morning" in some form or another. Now, at this point, what I'm thinking is 'how can 'How are you this morning?' (yes, this is an actual quote from the video) be sexual harassment?' I don't know the answer to this question, because if it were, Pro and I would both be on the sex offender's list right now for exchanging pleasantries before beginning our arguments. Although many of the "catcalls" in the video are obviously completely benign and some not even clearly directed at her, there were some other instances where there was clearly harassment, such as when one man followed the woman for five minutes. I have two main points against this: the first is that the person(s) who created this video were clearly trying to make a statement, and thus most likely included some of the "creepiest" or most prevalent instances of "harassment". After all, who wouldn't show the highlights of something to demonstrate a point? From this we can deduce that the worst instances of sexual harassment were most likely contained in that video, and the more minor instances were left out.This leads us to the question of what qualifies as harassment. We can clearly see from the video that even statements as vanilla as "have a nice evening" are viewed as harassment, and thus the standard for harassment is set extremely low. We can conclude that the number of instances where this woman was actually harassed is probably less than 50% of what the video claims, but even this is unimportant.Even if we assume that this video is 100% accurate and 100 people did catcall in 10 hours, simple math shows us that this equates to 1 catcall in every 6 minutes. Average human walking speed is about 3 miles per hour, or 0.05 miles per minute, which is about the length of a city block. It's reasonable (and a bit generous) to assume that there are around 20-50 people per New York City block that are outside, and also generous to assume that this woman encounters around 10 people every block. This means that this woman passes around 10 people a minute, which is 600 people an hour and 6,000 people in 10 hours. This means that, if there really were 100 catcalls, (which I doubt), and using my very generous numbers, we can conclude that 0.016% of people catcalled this woman. That's 1 in every 60 people, and far from what I would call a "rape culture".Even the above statistic is far diminished and even irrelevant when you consider another key factor: economics. This may sound like a completely different subject, however it is very pertinent to the current matter. If you look beck at the video, nearly all the people harassing the woman (leaving out the "good mornings") were of low socioeconomic status, based on their speaking, mannerisms, dress, conduct, and geographical location, and race (Most are minorities and New York has one of the highest poverty rates at 14.5% [1]). This is important because in areas or communities with lower socioeconomic status, there is very often much less education, and attitudes towards education are often negative[2]. This means that these people may not know how certain ways of approaching people are inappropriate and think it only natural to engage in behaviors that mainstream society would consider harassment, simply because they do not know any better. This can be exemplified if you simply think about how many catcalls you'd get if you walked around a very high-class, luxurious neighborhood. Much the same is true of violence and other crimes; you have a much higher chance of getting mugged or shot in Harlem than in a higher-class neighborhood, so does this mean we have a violence culture? Would you argue that these crimes are just brushed away as "everyday happenings" while they are really serious felonies?I'll conclude this section by talking about the Comedy Central videos. The major points made are that there are many popular news anchors which say some very sexist and dumb things (these anchors are all from Fox News and one is Bill O' Riley, so that pretty much refutes itself), and a similar walking with "harassment" clip is shown, which I feel I have already said my piece on. So not much in that video, but the other video does bring up some valid points. However, all my criticisms can pretty much be summed up in one comment, and so as not to run out of characters, this is it: Oh, and as for the last part about dress not mattering, that's false. Someone did a very nice video that proves this point[3].Sexualization:Again, I don't see any evidence showing that sexualization is happening in schools. However, even assuming that it was happening, I don't know of any school that would simply dismiss this harassment with no punishment. Also, much the same argument as I made earlier can be used in this scenario. Sex and sexuality are somewhat taboo topics in the U.S., and this oftentimes prevents parents, or any authority figure, from talking to their children about these types of things. This makes the sexual urges they inevitably get around middle school seem foreign to them, and since they don't really know what to do or how to please these sexual urges in socially correct ways or approach women in an amiable way, they may end up doing things that are sexually harassing. This isn't their fault or the fault of "rape culture", but rather the fault of the education system, parents, etc. for not having these types of conversations early on, which is a very sad part of our culture.The media does not give girls the impression that they should look down upon themselves, it simply exemplifies what humans perceive as beautiful. The type of woman that most guys want to see in an ad is the type of woman depicted in the media, just like the type of male most women think is handsome will be shown on the media. This is so you can appeal sexually to a larger audience and move more product, and there are no messages saying "be like this" on T.V. It's your choice who your role model is, and nobody is teaching these girls that they have to be extremely skinny or other harmful things. In fact, more men like a more curvy figure, and this is reflected in our models. I had some other arguments I wanted to make as well, but given the character limit I'll save those for next round.I wish you luck in the next round, Lacey!Sources:1. http://en.wikipedia.org...;2. http://www.apa.org...;3. ;