When Lisa Pires saw women saying they were randomly punched in New York in the lead-up to her holiday there, it sounded too absurd to be true. Then it happened to her.
Before her trip to New York a few weeks ago, Lisa Pires, a South African living in Amsterdam, encountered a series of videos on TikTok in which young women had filmed themselves after getting attacked on the street in New York City. Most were punched in the face – unprovoked, at random – in Manhattan south of midtown during the day.
The beauty of an accuser all too often breeds suspicion, however prejudicially, especially if the accuser is a TikTok influencer with more than 1 million followers. In this instance, the tousled blond hair, long nails and laugh-crying on view in one of the most watched videos surely helped sow doubt on a take rendered in a bracingargot .
Before she knew it, he struck her with his fist on the right side of her head. He fled uptown. She reported the incident to police, who told her that these type of attacks had become “kind of a big deal at the moment”. She was left with swelling in her ear; her face turned black and blue. According to a survey from the Pew Research Center, a third of women under 35 report having been sexually harassed online. And this is to say nothing of the less manifestly aggressive, if pervasive, abrasions – the distillation of any middle-aged woman who complains about anything to the favoured signifier of oblivious bourgeois entitlement, the “Karen”.
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