Gender'n the ' Hood

I really found this chapter interesting because it talked about the difference between women and men  sexual harassment , violence and other acts if violence.Throughout the whole chapter the author talked about  the interviews she constructed with the youth. The women told their stories of how  they don't feel safe in their neighborhood's at night because they often get harassed or fear for their saftey. As a women ,men see us as being weak and they take advantage of that. Men are always abusing their wives are girlfriends because they know that the women is weaker than he is physically and mentally. If a girl is walking home at night by herself, men standing outside hanging around or selling drugs , would sexual harass her by saying sexual things or try and talk to her and get mad when she don't want to talk to them back so they call her nasty names or even rape her. Now it wasn't just the young women that was interviewed that shared their experience if how young men act in their neighborhood, the young men addimited that this was how men act period in the neighborhood. Men don't have to face the same things women have to face in the Hood. Men are seen as a strong figure so they wouldn't have to worry about  getting sexual harassed or anything like that , they have to worry about gangs , getting involved in drugs or with guns. Over all men are seen as a more powerful figure than women are seen.