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Verbal Harassment

Annisa Rizka Fitriani Dewi (K2220017)

Video Title: What is Verbal Harassment?

Date: 26 October 2022

  1. What is being discussed in the video? Explain your answer.
    In this video, the speaker discussed the basic information about verbal harassment. First, the speaker explains verbal harassment is a language that is directed at another person that causes that person harm, typically in an emotional or psychological sense. Then, the speaker gives some examples of forms of verbal harassment, such as calling a person names, making him or her feel useless, or otherwise diminishing a person’s self-worth. Lastly, the speaker gives information like types of language that constitute verbal harassment vary by area and culture, and even within the same city, different people might have two very different ideas about what constitutes appropriate speech.
  2. What is the speaker’s main purpose? Explain your answer.
    The speaker’s main purpose is to inform the audience about basic information about verbal harassment. He explains the meaning, types, and forms of verbal harassment.
  3. How trustworthy is this video? Who is the speaker? What is the source? Do you think the source and the speaker are trustworthy?
    This video is quite trustworthy because there are much information I get. The speaker is Attorney Thoughts and the source is from the website https://www.lawdepot.com/?pid=pg-BFYMIBUINL-generaltextlink.
  4. What the speaker’s attitude or tone towards the subject? Does he/she seem to agree or disagree with it? Explain your answer.
    The speaker agrees that verbal harassment is damaging for many people because, in this video, he said “Most victims recognize that the words themselves are not harming them but the fact that the abuser feels very where she has a right to speak to the victim.”
  5. Does the speaker put forward valid or strong arguments? How does he/she support the key points? Explain your answer.
    The speaker supports the key points by explaining that harassment of the verbal type flaunts these rules and uses words to injure a target’s victim. Most victims recognize that the words themselves are not harming them but the fact that the abuser feels very where she has a right to speak to the victim. This way is often even more damaging. The reasons this type of harassment is effective even when threats are not made are complex but it is safe to say that the repetitive nature of the abuse makes it particularly disarming for the victim.
  6. Explain how this article will help contribute to your larger group project.
    This article or video help me to explain the basic information of verbal harassment.

Video Title: Verbal Abuse That’s Not Easy to Spot but Indeed Very Harmful | Stop Verbal Abuse | Lifehack

Date: 2 November 2022

  1. What is being discussed in the video? Explain your answer.
    In this video, the speaker discussed a little bit of information about the impact and warning signs of verbal abuse. There are 5 warning signs that are explained in this video, such as withholding, it’s just a joke, blocking and diverting, threatening, and name calling.
  2. What is the speaker’s main purpose? Explain your answer.
    The speaker’s main purpose is to inform the audience about the impact and warning signs. In this video, she tells the impact and warning signs, and she provides a way to prevent it.
  3. How trustworthy is this video? Who is the speaker? What is the source? Do you think the source and the speaker are trustworthy?
    This video is quite trustworthy because the speaker gives us some data like 62% of tweens are aware of their friends being in verbally abusive relationships.
  4. What the speaker’s attitude or tone towards the subject? Does he/she seem to agree or disagree with it? Explain your answer.
    The speaker seems to agree with the subject because she gives us how to prevent the warning signs of verbal abuse.
  5. Does the speaker put forward valid or strong arguments? How does he/she support the key points? Explain your answer.
    This speaker put strong arguments and support the key points by giving the data such as the percentage of people who are aware of their friends being verbally abusive.
  6. Explain how this article will help contribute to your larger group project.
    This article will help me to know the warning signs of verbal abuse and how to provide them.

Video Title: The Real USA – Verbal sexual harassment

Date: 9 November 2022

  1. What is being discussed in the video? Explain your answer.
    This video talks about a woman getting verbal harassment on the street once a week or sometimes more than once a day. The comments from men she passes are often about her looks and anything but flattering. When she gets verbal harassment on the street, she feels getting unwanted attention.
  2. What is the speaker’s main purpose? Explain your answer.
    The speaker’s main purpose is to report there are many people who still do verbal harassment on the street. The speaker also interviewed someone who was a victim of verbal harassment.
  3. How trustworthy is this video? Who is the speaker? What is the source? Do you think the source and the speaker are trustworthy?
    The video is quite trustworthy because in this video there are two sources giving each other opinions. Also, this video there gives us data that said 65% of American women have experienced street harassment and those encounters can provoke other sexually driven acts.
  4. What the speaker’s attitude or tone towards the subject? Does he/she seem to agree or disagree with it? Explain your answer.
    The speaker seems to agree because she said most women agree that educating others about verbal harassment in public is the best way to stop street harassment in its tracks.
  5. Does the speaker put forward valid or strong arguments? How does he/she support the key points? Explain your answer.
    The speaker puts a strong argument and supports the key points by giving some reports of two sources that agree and disagree that verbal harassment is illegal or not. Also, the speakers give us data on the percentage of American women who have experienced street harassment.
  6. Explain how this article will help contribute to your larger group project.
    This article helps to contribute by giving many perspectives and choosing which is better.

Video Title: Sexual and verbal harassment affect women in the restaurant industry

Date: 16 November 2022

  1. What is being discussed in the video? Explain your answer.
    In this video, the speaker talks about she was being harassed by customers at her previous place of employment. When she works at her previous restaurant, the customers stare at her and cat calling her when she serves the food.
  2. What is the speaker’s main purpose? Explain your answer.
    The speaker’s main purpose is to say that verbal harassment by customers is very uncomfortable for her and others woman employees. She did not appreciate someone objectifying her.
  3. How trustworthy is this video? Who is the speaker? What is the source? Do you think the source and the speaker are trustworthy?
    This video is quite trustworthy because she was have experienced being harassed verbally by customers. She also gives some explanation which is can help her to express how uncomfortable she is.
  4. What the speaker’s attitude or tone towards the subject? Does he/she seem to agree or disagree with it? Explain your answer.
    The speaker’s attitude in this video is quite agreed because, in this video, she just wants to do her job and not be harassed.
  5. Does the speaker put forward valid or strong arguments? How does he/she support the key points? Explain your answer.
    To support the key points, she explains her experience and how to against the perpetrator.
  6. Explain how this article will help contribute to your larger group project.
    This article will help contribute to educating people to not harass someone which is it can make someone uncomfortable.

Video Title: 10 Hours of Walking in NYC as a Woman

Date: 2 December 2022

  1. What is being discussed in the video? Explain your answer.
    In this video, the speaker is walking in NYC. The speaker was being verbally harassed by many people when she walking.
  2. What is the speaker’s main purpose? Explain your answer.
    The main purpose of this video is to give experiences of real-life harassment ranging from being told to smile to being silently trailed by a man.
  3. How trustworthy is this video? Who is the speaker? What is the source? Do you think the source and the speaker are trustworthy?
    This video is really trustworthy because of the speaker collab with the anti-street harassment organization Hollaback. The source is quite trustworthy because doing research by going into the field.
  4. What the speaker’s attitude or tone towards the subject? Does he/she seem to agree or disagree with it? Explain your answer.
    The speaker disagrees that verbal harassment still often does in the street. The speaker was simply shocked by seeing what women have to deal with on a daily basis, others have also critiqued the video itself.
  5. Does the speaker put forward valid or strong arguments? How does he/she support the key points? Explain your answer.
    Speaker gives strong arguments by giving representation from American Community Survey for U.S Census. There are about 6-7 scenes where a white guy harasses her, roughly 33-40 percent.
  6. Explain how this article will help contribute to your larger group project.
    This article will help contribute to my larger group project to help me make a campaign because there are many people who still do verbal harassment in a street.