{"id":6246,"date":"2024-05-13T10:58:24","date_gmt":"2024-05-13T14:58:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brie.hunter.cuny.edu\/hunterathenian\/?p=6246"},"modified":"2024-05-13T10:58:24","modified_gmt":"2024-05-13T14:58:24","slug":"hunter-college-students-react-to-increasing-violence-against-women-in-nyc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brie.hunter.cuny.edu\/hunterathenian\/2024\/05\/hunter-college-students-react-to-increasing-violence-against-women-in-nyc\/","title":{"rendered":"Hunter College Students React to Increasing Violence Against Women In NYC"},"content":{"rendered":"

In the last month, Tik Tok\u00a0 flooded with videos of women detailing their assaults in broad daylight in New York City .\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

On March 25th, popular Tik Toker, Halley Kate Mcgookin, a fashion-influencer based in NYC,\u00a0 posted a <\/span>video to Tik Tok<\/span><\/a> detailing her experience of being sucker punched in the face on the street.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The video, which has garnered nearly 50 million views, was met with shock but prompted many other women to share their stories, including one <\/span>student from Parsons, who said she had been punched outside of one of her school buildings near the West Village campus.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Female students at Hunter College had strong opinions on the subject, but weren\u2019t necessarily surprised by the assaults.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cNot gonna lie the whole thing is quite tragic,\u201d said Ariana McNab, a Media Studies major.\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n

She said she doesn\u2019t know what\u2019s causing this uptick in violence against women, and felt unsafe in public because of it.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

McNab wondered whether the growth of online podcasts, where men give each other dating advice, had anything to do with the increase in random assaults.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s a lot of rhetoric based on toxic masculinity and basically saying anything to feminine threatens manhood,\u201d McNab said, describing the videos she has seen online.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Other students said they are taking precautionary measures. <\/span><\/p>\n

Levia Zhou, a senior Education and Chinese language major who walks home from school, has decided to not walk home alone anymore. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI was just scared so I made my friend walk me home, who knows if this person punching people is in my neighborhood or not,\u201d she said.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Though the incident reports on social media seemed to be dying down, the lingering fear for young women haven\u2019t subsided.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cPeople tell girls to keep their head on a swivel, you know, every girl I know carries mace or some sort of weapon\u201d says junior Sydney Hargrove.\u00a0 \u201cWe get told to be careful and not be out alone at night, but now we\u2019re getting attacked in broad daylight, so women are backed into a corner.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The New York Police Department said they will continue to remain resilient in their efforts to stop violent criminals, ensuring the safety of our communities, according to a statement posted on their X social media account. https:\/\/x.com\/NYPDnews\/status\/1773191476937113654\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In the last month, Tik Tok\u00a0 flooded with videos of women detailing their assaults in broad daylight in New York City .\u00a0 On March 25th, popular Tik Toker, Halley Kate Mcgookin, a fashion-influencer based in NYC,\u00a0 posted a video to Tik Tok detailing her experience of being sucker punched in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":147,"featured_media":6247,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brie.hunter.cuny.edu\/hunterathenian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6246","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brie.hunter.cuny.edu\/hunterathenian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brie.hunter.cuny.edu\/hunterathenian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brie.hunter.cuny.edu\/hunterathenian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/147"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brie.hunter.cuny.edu\/hunterathenian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6246"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/brie.hunter.cuny.edu\/hunterathenian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6246\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6308,"href":"https:\/\/brie.hunter.cuny.edu\/hunterathenian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6246\/revisions\/6308"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brie.hunter.cuny.edu\/hunterathenian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6247"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brie.hunter.cuny.edu\/hunterathenian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brie.hunter.cuny.edu\/hunterathenian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brie.hunter.cuny.edu\/hunterathenian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}