#reclaim these streets

[coochiequeens]

Most women would love to be able to go on a run at night while listening to music WITHOUT worrying about their safety

Samsung has apologised for a recent advert which showed a woman getting up at 02:00 to go for a run through the streets of a city alone.

The advert has been criticised by some women's running groups and safety campaigners for being "unrealistic".

Samsung has told Radio 1 Newsbeat it was never its intention to "be insensitive to ongoing conversations around women's safety."

"We apologise for how this may have been received," it adds.

"The 'Night Owls' campaign was designed with a positive message in mind: to celebrate individuality and freedom to exercise at all hours."

Women's safety group Reclaim These Streets has described it as "tone deaf" in light of the death of Ashling Murphy who was killed on a run in January. 

The 23-year-old's death in Tullamore, Ireland, opened up the conversation about how unsafe some women feel running alone, especially at night.

It sparked the hashtag #shewasonarun as posts and stories were shared about women being harassed while out running.

It's for this reason Esther Newman, editor of Women's Running magazine and podcast, says this advert is "not representing the truth".

"Women don't run at that time because we are too scared to," she told Radio 1 Newsbeat.

"It's really shocking. I don't know any woman who would be running at 02:00 in the morning. Certainly not in a city."

According to recent figures from the Office for National Statistics, half of all women have felt unsafe at some point walking alone in the dark.

And running is no exception, according to the views shared online in response to the Samsung advert with some calling it "ridiculous" and "unrelatable".

Samsung replied to some of the comments on social media saying: "We can assure you that the meaning for this advert is for all Galaxy customers/viewers to achieve their health and wellness goals on their own schedules".

But one of the main things that Esther Newman points out is that the lead character is running with headphones on.

"Wearing headphones is a contentious point. Most women runners I know don't wear headphones, and that's during the day, because they are concerned about their safety."

#Samsung #tone deaf advertising #Reclaim These Streets #Rest In Peace Ashling Murphy #Shewasonarun

[danneroni]

Don't usually share street art on main but I'm into these slaps I've been making lately ♥️🏳️‍🌈

#typography #handmade stickers #street art #tdov 2024 #tdov #gay pride #trans pride #self love #queer art #motivational art #f slur #reclaimed slurs

[zorishy]

Wake up honey, Zorishy Posted new Bur art

Hello, I’m back and here to bring you a combination of my two favorite things to draw: Burs/tropesonas and Japanese street fashion.

I will eventually be putting up polls for what styles to draw Spencer (Simpbur), Danny (Phantombur), Argos (Argbur), Keith (Dr malpractice), 😶 (Zonebur), and Apollo (100pbur) in

#Burs reclaimed #bursonas #Tropesonas #Zorishy art #ghostbur #pogbur #revivebur #lmanbur #japanese street fashion #I love putting my scrimblos in cool clothes #I don’t support cc!wilbur #Keep in mind that I did research each of these fashion styles before drawing them

[pamietniko]

Capitol Hill

Seattle, Washington

#washington #35mm #analogue #film photography #original photography #photographers on tumblr #PNW #cityscape #Space Needle #capitol hill #cherry blossoms #cherry blossom tree #sakura #grunge #street photography #pacific northwest #Seattle #street art #reclaimed by nature

[robertpallesen]

Reclaimed Lumber, Portland, OR © Robert Pallesen

#Lumber #Reclaimed Lumber #Reclaimed Wood #Old Growth #Street Scene #PDX #Portland #Urban Landscape #Black and White Photography #Robert Pallesen

[q-ueerly]

"groceries"

acrylic on resin and CD mosaic

#acrylpainting #sunset #street lights #contemporary art #nocturne #reclaimed materials #dreamscape #reflecting light #reflections #night #nightwalk #my art #QUEERLY #nocturne painting #acrylic painting #city lights #nightscape #contemporary painting #melbourne artist #queer artist #nonbinary artist #citylights

[paracosm-photography]

As the asphalt cracks and crumbles, nature is quick to reclaim any bit of land it can.

#my photography #original photography #street photography #reclaimed by nature #photo art #rainy day #contrast #nature finds a way

[exactly24bees]

Anyways Jesus loves fags and queers

#street preacher at my school making me mad again lol #f slur tw #q word tw #queer christian #also I said this to a guy counter protesting and they looked at me weird so I went back and said ‘oh no it’s ok I’m gay I can reclaim that’ #hejshdjdhshs im so chronically online #faithfullylgbt

[mikec137]

Frauenfeld, Switzerland, June 2023

#streetart #streetart festival frauenfeld #streetart festival frauenfeld 2023 #stickers #stickerart #never better #rofu #reclaim the streets #the undividuals #bart #bart simpson #videoüberraschung #pope #fake #tyranosaurusrex #smurf #mermaid #wolf #dog #skull #hand #pig #woman #man #girl #flipping the bird #stickapackz

[cruelsister-moved2]

sorry but I hate the type of norse pagan type guy that will have very questionable looking tattoos and like frankly i shouldnt have to spend 15 minutes on google to work out whether youre a white supremacist. its like they dont get that the ambiguity is already not good. if I see you from a distance and you have a bunch of weird looking cross patches on your jacket im going to go about my day feeling disturbed because I couldnt mentally record the features fast enough to later correctly identify the niche differences that tell me whether youre literally a nazi or not... like I think you could stand to be more concerned at the thought of giving someone that impression im ngl

#it's almost worse when you aren't sure because there's like #no closure n permission to get mad #you feel guilty for being scared because maybe it was innocent #but idccc if well achkshuallying and Reclaiming Ur Norse Heritage is more important to u #than like minorities feeling safe passing u in the street #then. idgaf #esp because most of these symbols u look them up n find out they were made up in like 1850

[sh5]

#like my brother could call me every slur in the book and I would cry laughing. he gets called a faggot enough on the street to reclaim it #lee speaks

[annleigh]

why do those posts about loving the word cunt have so many notes like “i wonder why my mother is so offended by it” like do you actually know what it means in the US

#reclaiming derogatory terms positively = good #calling random women on the street that when they bother you = bad and sexist

[belanova]

Shouldn't have stayed out late trying to draw cause i just had a dream of my Best friend calling me slurs but like cutesy? 😭

#not even ones he can reclaim #just #huh #LOL #What the fuck was that dream we were just walking on the street for hours and hours going nowhere

[glutenfree-rootbeer]

#water #sunken city #apocolyptic #city under water #apocolypse #endless infinity street #ocean #reclaim #global warming #art #ai art #generated from a prompt

[bikehype]

Reclaim the streets. London, 1995

#party #reclaim the streets #london #cities #protest

[dyketubbo]

i used to be really into the love is what makes the world go round type posts but now that ive realized a lot of that was because i was trying to Make Up for being aspec all those posts just feel so bitter to me now

#dont come to me w that 'well not all love is romantic <3' stuff like yeah obviously #but the only people i really feel comfortable saying i love is my bio family and.. even that is really complicated #i never really know when the last straw will be. i dont feel comfortable saying my world revolves around love #when a lot of the people i said i loved and who love/loved me have hurt me deeply in ways i may not recover from #and overall with how thats tainted it for me + how i want to stop trying to Make Up for not feeling romantic love by claiming- #-love is everywhere i love my friends the kind strangers on the street yada yada etc etc #..idk. i think what makes us human is just that we are human. we would still be human even if none of us felt love #i guess i just want to be able to reclaim love without it being forced on me even from my own community #i dont want to be told love is what makes me human because then that ultimately still perpetuates the fact that #if i say i dont feel love people will start seeing me as lesser and subhuman. and thats still fucked up even if it isnt about romantic love #i *care* about my friends. i have basic compassion for the strangers around me and i help them out because its the right thing to do #it makes me feel good but it doesnt make me feel love bc to me thats either my very specific feelings towards my family #or a very abstract concept that doesnt really mean anything without any of societys pressures regarding it #mask mews #loveless aro #personal #but ok to rb