T launches campaign against sexual harassment
(Aram Boghosian for The Boston Globe)
By Globe Staff
The new advertisements on the T offer plays on words that are not intended to be funny.
"Rub against me and I'll expose you," says one poster that shows a young woman squeezed between faceless bodies on a train. Another has a picture of a surveillance camera and the warning: “Flash someone and you’ll be exposed.”
The Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority launched a new public service campaign today to increase awareness of sexual harassment on public transit, and to encourage victims to report such events.
The campaign comes after a 16-year-old Boston Latin School student snapped a cellphone picture in December of a man who had allegedly been exposing himself to riders on the Green Line. Police arrested a Newton man, whom neighbors identified after police publicized the picture.
A Globe story on Sunday found that many riders praised the ads.
"I guess I think it's a proactive idea," said Olesia Plokhii, 23, as she tapped out a text message on her cellphone. "Any kind of awareness around that says 'Perpetrator beware,' I think that's ultimately effective."
(Aram Boghosian for The Boston Globe)
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