ON THE CUTTING EDGE: If You Can Read This, You Are A Pervert
"Anti-Groping Appli," a free download for Web-enabled cells phones, has become one of the top-10 cell phone applications in Japan, according to Web-based publisher Spicy Soft Corp. When a woman coming into contact with a fellow commuter with "Russian hands and Roman fingers" presses the "Anger" icon, she can show the offender this message on her cell phone screen: "Excuse me, did you just grope me?." As a woman’s indignation level rises, the warnings escalate - "Groping is a crime," and finally, "Shall we head to the police?" – without attracting embarrassing attention from other passengers.
New Yorkers can sure use something like this. In interviews with 331 women straphangers last year by TV show "Inside Edition" at five of the city’s most heavily trafficked subway stations - Grand Central, Union Square, Penn Station, Columbus Circle and Herald Square - 36 percent said they had been flashed, grabbed, groped or had someone rub himself against them.
You can count The Stiletto amongst their number. Once, The Stiletto was holding onto a pole in the center of a jam-packed subway car during the morning rush when she suddenly felt someone rubbing himself rhythmically against her derrière. Not wanting to make a scene, she moved her entire person clockwise. The man moved with her – and kept rubbing. She moved again. So did he. When we had both made a complete North-East-South-West revolution around the pole, The Stiletto took the hatpin securing her beret to her locks and jammed it into the perv’s thigh. He got off at the next stop. The Stiletto regrets the loss of the hatpin.
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