It’s mental how normalised this sort of behaviour from women is, well done to Mark for speaking up
Reminds me of that video where a TV presenter (Jeremy Kyle??) Calls out his audience for laughing when his guest describes the abuse he gets from his female partner.
4 times a night at gigs, and doesn’t report any of them…. i mean at some point you kind’ve are letting them get away with it by not applying any repercussions on them for their actions.
Even if the charges do not go through, the mere arrest and questioning will make women think twice because the fear of repercussions is the biggest way to stop it.
Plus men really suck at defending themselves about this stuff. Make a scene if you need to and put the women on the spot so everyone looks. Men definitely do not enough to both support each other about it as well as report it – even if the police don’t believe if you enough to do anything, if you keep inundating police with reports it will look bad on the police when reports show increasing reports and them largely not being dealt with.
Society has no problems ruining men’s lives for the acts – about time women also had the same repercussions. This particular double standard really annoys me.
I’m not surprised that it was mainly at student nights. I have made the mistake of wearing a kilt on a night out once and was groped several times by student girls. In my experience, it’s different from assault by men.
These girls play it off as a joke, often assaulting the victim in front of her friends to show how “wild” they are etc. It’s like their goal is to humiliate the victim. To them, male bodies are an object of their amusement. To the victim, it is utterly crushing and it’s hard to come back from.
> If I’d have done that to her I’d be in the cells.
I sympathise with Mark, but I hate this kind of gender wars statement. Does he really think that every man who has groped a woman spent time in jail for it? Hell, barely any rapes get prosecuted, let alone groping. Did he even report the incident to the police?
I was at a work party once, and one of my colleagues had been lifting for a couple of years, and had some pretty impressive gains. A sales girl who hadn’t been in the office for a long while was amazed by his transformation, and was really heavily flirting with him. As the evening went on, it was getting a little out of hand. She started talking about nipple size, and that she likes a nice big man-nipple. My colleague lifted up his shirt to show her he had small nipples, and she launched herself at him and managed to get her mouth around his nipple. Everyone was like… “WTF?!?!” and there was a bit of a fuss made, where she tried to laugh it off and just say it was all a bit of fun, and that he liked it. After a few minutes, she was kicked out of the party and put in a taxi home. The party continued, but my colleague was visibly disturbed by the episode. She got a warning for it, which a few people were up in arms about, including me. If the roles were reversed, it would be a criminal proceeding and being added to the sex offender’s registry. I really can’t see why women sexually assaulting men is generally deemed to be acceptable, or even desirable.
I’m very confused. What about the act of a *TV quiz personality* could possibly get people so worked up that they grab at him?
Who are these people and what about pub quizzes do they find sexually exciting?
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It’s mental how normalised this sort of behaviour from women is, well done to Mark for speaking up
Reminds me of that video where a TV presenter (Jeremy Kyle??) Calls out his audience for laughing when his guest describes the abuse he gets from his female partner.
4 times a night at gigs, and doesn’t report any of them…. i mean at some point you kind’ve are letting them get away with it by not applying any repercussions on them for their actions.
Even if the charges do not go through, the mere arrest and questioning will make women think twice because the fear of repercussions is the biggest way to stop it.
Plus men really suck at defending themselves about this stuff. Make a scene if you need to and put the women on the spot so everyone looks. Men definitely do not enough to both support each other about it as well as report it – even if the police don’t believe if you enough to do anything, if you keep inundating police with reports it will look bad on the police when reports show increasing reports and them largely not being dealt with.
Society has no problems ruining men’s lives for the acts – about time women also had the same repercussions. This particular double standard really annoys me.
I’m not surprised that it was mainly at student nights. I have made the mistake of wearing a kilt on a night out once and was groped several times by student girls. In my experience, it’s different from assault by men.
These girls play it off as a joke, often assaulting the victim in front of her friends to show how “wild” they are etc. It’s like their goal is to humiliate the victim. To them, male bodies are an object of their amusement. To the victim, it is utterly crushing and it’s hard to come back from.
> If I’d have done that to her I’d be in the cells.
I sympathise with Mark, but I hate this kind of gender wars statement. Does he really think that every man who has groped a woman spent time in jail for it? Hell, barely any rapes get prosecuted, let alone groping. Did he even report the incident to the police?
I was at a work party once, and one of my colleagues had been lifting for a couple of years, and had some pretty impressive gains. A sales girl who hadn’t been in the office for a long while was amazed by his transformation, and was really heavily flirting with him. As the evening went on, it was getting a little out of hand. She started talking about nipple size, and that she likes a nice big man-nipple. My colleague lifted up his shirt to show her he had small nipples, and she launched herself at him and managed to get her mouth around his nipple. Everyone was like… “WTF?!?!” and there was a bit of a fuss made, where she tried to laugh it off and just say it was all a bit of fun, and that he liked it. After a few minutes, she was kicked out of the party and put in a taxi home. The party continued, but my colleague was visibly disturbed by the episode. She got a warning for it, which a few people were up in arms about, including me. If the roles were reversed, it would be a criminal proceeding and being added to the sex offender’s registry. I really can’t see why women sexually assaulting men is generally deemed to be acceptable, or even desirable.
I’m very confused. What about the act of a *TV quiz personality* could possibly get people so worked up that they grab at him?
Who are these people and what about pub quizzes do they find sexually exciting?