Happy Friday Hollas! We’ve been working hard for you over the last two weeks in the office and around the world. Here’s a quick overview of some of the amazing activism that we’re involved in right now. FROM THE HOLLABACK! HEADQUARTERS In AM NEW YORK news article, “Fighting Harassment in the Workplace will Require New Policies for all NYC … Continued 

 Being a woman is awesome (we have pretty hair), but it’s also exhausting (people feel entitled to comment on our pretty hair). To illustrate this point, a woman walked the streets of New York City for ten hours to see just how often she’d get catcalled. She even wore a T-shirt, jeans, and sneakers so people couldn’t say her clothing meant she was asking for it. 
 
 The results? 108 catcalls in ten hours. That’s an average of close to 11 an hour. One guy even goes so far as to walk silently in stride with the woman for five minutes after his initial greeting failed to capture her attention. 
 
 Let this be a potent reminder of why you should never leave your apartment. 
 
 Update: In response to criticism about the racial makeup of the catcallers in the video, Rob Bliss Creative, the marketing agency behind the clip, said: 
 
 But at Slate, Hanna Rosin responded, "if you find yourself editing out all the catcalling white guys, maybe you should try another take."
– Video of a woman who walks around New York City for 10 hours makes one thing very clear: It can be "exhausting" to be a woman, observes Jessica Roy at New York mag. How else to describe what's it's like to listen to the relentless stream of catcalls from guys of all kinds? To be precise, Shoshana Roberts recorded 108 over that stretch, with the camera tucked away in a backpack of someone walking in front of her, explains the website Hollaback! The site is dedicated to stopping what it calls street harassment. Roberts, dressed in a T-shirt, jeans, and sneakers, got lots of remarks of the "Hey Baby" variety, along with what Gothamist calls the "most infuriating" type of catcall: A guy scolds her, "Somebody's acknowledging you for being beautiful—you should say thank you!" Writes Jen Carlson: "Ladies whenever will we learn to smile and thank our street harassers?" The creepiest encounter might be another guy who walked silently by Roberts' side for five minutes after his opening remark failed to get a response.