Sasheer Zamata
Comedian
Hilariously Discusses
Her Street Harassment
Ordeal
No matter the season, many of us experience street harassment every single day. And while we may have wanted to have a snappy comeback ready for our harasser, more often than not we probably walked away quickly — and safely. While street harassment is all too common for women around the world, one comedian decided to flip her experience on its head and look at it from her harasser’s perspective.
Sharing her tale for the inaugural installment of Chioke Nassor’s series Storytime, New York-based comedian Sasheer Zamata shared her run-in with a flasher.
Although she says she should have handled it differently, her reaction to the flasher was extremely nonchalant. She remembers, “I turned down his dick as if he were trying to sell a CD or something.”
With biting humor and a willingness to be honest about the experience (and her flasher’s point of view), Zamata turned a horrible incident into a teachable (and comical) moment.
Take a look.
