For many women who take public transportation,
dealing with unwanted advances,
or even witnessing lewd conduct is something that they just kind of put up with.
But one woman said enough was enough and she decided to take action.
Now, Camille Regnier is a 21-year-old actess living in Paris, France. And,
On Tuesday, Regnier was taking the Paris Metro when she says she looked up
and saw a man touching himself right in the middle of the train.
You can see, uh, the photo here which we have blocked out.
Uh, but if you see the unblocked out version it's all there for your uh, gazing.
Now she posted it to Facebook and included a caption that read,
"When he was masturbating, the guy was staring at me in the window of the metro,
not directly at me.
...I was watching a video on my phone and I saw him masturbating when I looked up!
I talked to him, he said nothing, and ran away.
What the fuck!"
"Yesterday I was wearing long jeans and boots and today I was wearing a long skirt...
I never made eye contact with them. What's wrong with respect?
Is it because I'm a woman that I have to experience your evil perversity every day?"
Uh, so before I kinda go on into the rest of the story
I want to make a HUGE point here.
So she, in this, you know, long Facebook comment that she's you know being commended for kind of
Putting this out there or whatever she says
Uh, "I was wearing jeans and boots and today I was wearing a long skirt and I
didn't make eye contact" And that just shows you how crazy victim blaming is in our society.
That she feels that she needs to clarify, "Look I wasn't dressed like a slut."
"And I wasn't provoking him with eye contact."
She needs...she feels the need to clarify that. So you know,
That's not why he pulled out his dick on the train.
Yeah, I don't, I don't think she needed to clarify that. ----That's ridiculous!----
Like the idea that if she was wearing a short skirt
maybe I'll pull my pants down.
No but she felt the need that oh maybe if I was wearing something
Regardless of what you're wearing, regardless of how you're making eye contact with somebody
Don't masturbate on the train.
That would have to be a pretty hot skirt for me to do that in public I imagine
But of course you're right and that is why she had to [JIMMY]: so if it was hot enough you would.
I-I haven't seen it yet. There are some yoga pants, when you stretch them - No of course that's crazy
Like you had said that this is not exclusive to France.
Yeah so this happens in America all the time. I have a lot of friends that went to NYU
and live in New York and they say they've seen this multiple times on New York subways
They've seen other lewd things happening as well
But in this case she posted the photo to Facebook and just a day after that the police identified her
alleged abuser. Now if you don't think this is abuse-
100%! [JAYAR]: I'd love to know the number here 'cause I mean 100% is amazing
so maybe it is worse there. It's hard for me to believe that 100% of women,
even just in LA.. Now this was in Paris? [HANNAH]: this was in Paris yeah.
[JAYAR]: that 100% of women have experienced this one thing.
[HANNAH]: Well let's say if you consider cat-calling some form of harassment.
I'm gonna guess that's pretty close to 100% in Los Angeles.
[JAYAR] What do people consider cat-calling, you know? There's always been those
types of discussions where they go, "If a guy goes 'hey, how are you doing?' some people don't like that
extent of conversation, or they feel threatened, and that's fine for them.
So I wonder where the line is drawn as far as what - someone saying something to you
If it's just, "Hey, nice ass!", yeah, that's obvious.
[JOHN] Oh you're saying, 'what does that actually mean?'
[HANNAH] You're saying, 'how do you define cat-calling?'
[JOHN] The gender-based sort of harassment, yeah. I mean, I think we can all agree, though,
you can't masturbate on a train.
[JAYAR]: Yes, that's what I'm saying. I wonder what percentage of people are actually doing that.
[JOHN]: I'm glad that you checked into the laws. It better be against the law. I hope it's against the law
in America, too, I wouldn't want to see that. Yeah, I don't think anybody thinks that that's ok, right?
[JAYAR]: No
[JOHN]: We give everybody a lot of rights of self-expression and everything, but --
[HANNAH]: Jimmy wants to know what her skirt would look like.
[JOHN]: Yeah, Jimmy actually hasn't said anything about whether it should be legal or not. Look, I get it.
You're commuting back and forth to work. It can take a lot of time. It's a big part of your day.
Maybe you don't have time once you get back home
[JIMMY]: And you get hot
[JOHN]: You get hot! You need to air it out! But no, I don't think anybody thinks that's acceptable.
[JAYAR]: There's a certain percentage of like, there's something missing. No one thinks that makes any sense.
[HANNAH]: It's crazy people who are doing this. It's not normal - you're not getting on the train and then going -
Whatever. I mean, I don't know your personal life