Perverts beware: female bloggers armed with camera phones are posting your pictures online

A new generation of female bloggers -- armed with camera phones -- has started an Internet site to post pictures and videos of guys who harass them in public.

Under the motto "If you can't slap 'em, snap 'em!", HollaBack is based on the same sort of camera phone vigilantism that has been used to shame bad drivers, litterbugs and rude sales clerks.

In September, San Francisco joined more than a dozen other cities and states that have HollaBack blogs.

HollaBack started in New York a year ago, when a woman posted a cell-phone picture of a raw-food restaurateur masturbating while he looked at her on the subway. She uploaded the photo to the girl-power Web site Laundromatic.net.

Within a week, 45,000 people saw the photo, including seven young Brooklyners, who then created HollaBacknyc.blogspot.com. Word spread fast through feminist media outlets such as BUST and Ms. magazines, feministing.com and Girls Against Cat Calls on the MySpace social networking site.

Today, HollaBackNYC can receive 75,000 daily hits. Europe has HollaBackEU. [via the SFGate]

HollaBack NYC is now also accepting video submissions.

Related:

-- SAY CHEESE, YOU SLEAZE! - Camera phones are becoming the frontline defense for women to stop subway perverts in their tracks.

-- Cell phone used to nab subway flasher - New York City police say a 15-year-old girl used her cell phone camera to snap a picture of a man who was exposing himself to her on the number seven train.

emily | 3:39 PM | Citizens as Camera Phone Reporters |
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