Upskirting: How to Protect Yourself

07/28/08 2:04 PM

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If there is anything to learn from Karen's story, it's that sexual predators will go so far as to take pictures up your skirt, even in public. If you ever feel threatened, follow these guidelines to show that you will not be victimized.

· Surprise is an attacker's best tool. Don't make yourself a target - always be aware.
· Keep your head held high.
· The more informed you are about a situation, the better protected you will be.
· Be observant, not paranoid.
· Use your voice to repel - don't be afraid to make a noise or cause a commotion.
· React intelligently.

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they do this alot in japan lol

 

I have never been upskirted, but it must be horribly humiliating. I can imagine how she must have felt. When I was a senior in high school, my skirt was pulled up in the middle of the hall. I have never been so embarrassed and so humiliated in my life. It took me years to get over it. This young woman sounds so strong and confident. Way to go.

 

hello!! im shelby. i go to a highschool in alaska and when i saw the episode on upskirting i was surprized. i was upskirted in my highschool last year and the tape got around kids in my grade by the end of the passing time and during the next class hour. people have commented saying its no crime..but in what way is it not??!! it is a crime and a horrible very very embarrasing thing.

 

Hay Tyra,

Of course you don't know me. I just wanted to write you to let you know that I love you , you've came a long way from modeling to acting and know your own television talk show. YOU GO GURL...... I love your style , your hair and most of all your taste in shoes. From my understanding you wear a size 8 in a half
Girl if your ever looking for someone too give them shoes to when your tired of them you can always send them to me i'll gladly accept them. Girl you just don't know how pleased I am to have finally gotten to write you. This may be the closest I'll ever get to you getting to know me . Tyra I love you and I don't want you feel like Im stalking you or harrassing or any thing of that nature. I just have this dream of becoming a model. I have the look , the style, and everything I just don't know if I have the confidence. Tyra how did you do it how were you able to rule the compettion. How did you know that you were the best and what did you do top get to the top. How can i get there and will you help me or at least guide me I am 25 years old now I have three children who are also beautiful enough for the magazines can you help us Tyra . Help me help us meet our highest potential . Thankyou for being a great successful black woman.
you have paved the way for a lot of woman and children of all races to be the best , dream big, and strive for what they believe in. Tyra you are like the BIGGEST SISTER I never had. Again I love you and keep up the good work.

Signing off
Santina Mack You can send me Email any time you feel like it
I will respond at my earliest... U GO GURL....
LUV YA!

 

Upskirting is NOT a crime. It is enjoyment.
Dont like it? dont look.

 

Tyra... HOW DARE YOU !!! Your show today that praised the girl for physically attacking the man next to her, SIMPLY because she felt uncomfortable. Your very own show has had episodes that point a finger at the violence in our communities. She was justfied only in reporting her suspictions to the police. If they found upskirt pitures of her in his camera he would then be prosecuted. I can say without hesitation that if she had thrown her drink on me and started hitting me, it would have been me calling the police. I would have without a doubt pressed criminal charges against her and filed a civil lawsuit against her. We can not condone people attacking others just because they have a feeling. SHAME on you TYRA !!!!!

 

I am a 39 year young woman. I watched your show today on "Race" which some I understood and could identify with but on the other and when I do watch shows with this topic the media always shows the light skinned girl of mixed race and all that she has accomplished but what about the dark skinned woman of mixed race with the not so good hair, skinny or average build but has accomplished things in MY life that I am VERY proud of ESPECIALLY that I was raised by my Daddy, a Black man !!! I would like to see a dark skinned mixed race individual on television showing the positive side of being diverse but also knowing or having faced reality of life that society is racist period nNO MATTER WHAT RACE,CREDE OR COLOR ONE IS.
Yes I would love to have sat in your adience for this show. Like I said I am a mixed race woman. My mother is white my Dadddy is black and that is what is on my birth certificate, but I am brown skinned, brown slanted eyes, aburn mid length hair, thin nose, medium lips, no butt, top heavy woman. I have indured racism at a very young age, being raised in the subrbs, going to an all white scholl with only 3 other blacks as well as going to a predominately black school and still suffering racism from my own peers which mind you did not even know I was of mixed race, but said I talked to proper. So jst a sggestion put a black person on your show and show other blacks that they too dish out racism.
I would love to have a panel of men who prefer a certain woman and do a dating game type of show and be a contestant to just prove that racism is in EVERYONE even if they can't see the person face to face is just the way of the world.
Have a Great one,
Mrs Turner
Greeley, CO

 

i agree with her people are relly crazy in order to be a sexpreditor i think all sex preditors should relly not be in this world and that is coming from the heart

 

i agree with her people are relly crazy in order to be a sexpreditor i think all sex preditors should relly not be in this world and that is coming from the heart

 

hey, tyra my name is samantha im 11 years old i woch your show evey day after school but i have a boy probelm he want to kiss me i told no that i was not for that kind of thang but i thack hes mad at me did i do the right thing

 

I need you to pray for me. Tyra pray that I can go on with my life right now and still be the lively, sweet, confident woman that I was before all this happened to me. I know that if any one can make me stronger it has to be you and God of course.

On Friday October 26, 2007 I was raped at gun point. I can’t believe I just typed that because I never thought that I would ever be in that situation, with a gun to my head, in my own home, saying good bye in my mind to my life as knew it. I can’t believe that I invited this person into my life, why didn’t I know better than to just walk away when I had the feeling that he was a bit strange. But you know what I was so caught up with not wanting to end up alone. I figured that I was 26, attractive, my own place, paying my bills, own car, good government job, sweet, no children and sooooo single that it was time to start dating men. Hopefully finding someone I can marry, and while I am doing all of this someone is plotting to take my body, my spirit, my security, and my life….

So Tyra, I beg to you pray for me. Please pray that I can overcome my fears and be able to sleep alone in a house again; that I can take a shower with out imagining him standing there watching me as he did after violating me, and that I can trust men again.

Thank you.

Latoyia

 

Hi tyra i'm 25 from angola girl but i look so big for my age sometamis i get so engry when people call me names and when i go to resturent people start stering at me like i don't need to eat. i have treid so many deit none has worked.CAN I HAVE SOME TIPE HOW TO LOSE WAIT PLEASE.
LOVE U

 

Hey Tyra,
I'm fifteen years old and in the tenth grade. I watch your show everyday at five 0'clock. The show than stuck to me the most was your "SO WHAT" show. Everyone says that I look like I'm older that my mother. They say I'm too developed for my age. My birth mark is my gray hair so that gives people even more of a reason to belive i'm older than what I am. It use to get to me but now i just feel like "SO WHAT"!!!! I'm beutiful no matter what people think, I know who I am and thats all that matters! Who cares what everyone else looks like? I LOVE ME SO THATS ALL THAT COUNTS!!!!
Love Always
Shakeela

 

HEY TYRA GURL THiS iS ERICIA((RESHA))YOUR BIGGEST TYRA SHOW FAN.IM IN THE 10TH GRADE, IM 15, AND I LIVE IN HOUSTON,TX((H-TOWN))!!! I WATCH YOU EVERYDAY WHEN I GET HOME FROM SCHOOL. MOST OF THE TIME I ONLY GET TO SEE HALF OF THE SHOW BUT HEY THATS GOOD ENOUGH FOR ME!! I REALLY WANTED TO WRITE YOU THIS LETTER TO SHOW YOU HOW MUCH OF A INSPIRATION YOU ARE TO ME. I KNOW IM KIND OF LATE WITH THIS BUT LAST SEASON WHEN YOU DID THE ''SO WHAT'' MOVEMENT AND YOU TOLD THOSE PEOPLE OFF ''I WAS LIKE GO TYRA!'' NO BUT IT REALLY MADE ME THINK AND I TOLD MYSELF YEA IM A LITTLE OVER WEIGHT AND YEA I KNOW THAT I DONT LOOK LIKE OTHER GIRLS AT MY SCHOOL BUT ''SO WHAT!!''I LOVE MYSELF AND IM PROUD OF MYSELF AND THATS ALL THAT MATTERS. I REALLY WANTED TO LET YOU KNOW THAT BECAUSE I ADMIRE YOU SO MUCH FOR ME AS A TEENAGER.WELL TYRA I GOTTA GO NOW, PEACE!!

LOVE ALWAYS,
ERICIA

 

hey girl
i go to school and when i am walking up steps wearing a skirt guys and girls look up my skirt. It makes me feel very very uncomfortable because afterwards they come to me and compliment how good i look from underneath. I tell them to stop they say they will but never do and they tell their friends and the whole school thinks i'm a well you know. You show is really great you go girl. hope you email me. thanks love jessica

 

I am watching the harrasment high tech, and that girl talking about being a victim of upskirting is so articulate and photogenic and strong- Tyra, I swear I see something in her for modeling, acting, or being a Tyra Show reporter. I've never commented on anything or to a show or whatever, but that girl looks like Anne Hathaway and should be an actress or something. Tyra, go back and look how photgenic she is. And she threw a smoothie at a perv! Good for her! Strong girl.

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