“I just think men are men, they’re just going to be doing their thing.”
There are men who could live to 1000 years old and wouldn’t ever harass a woman and then there are ones who won’t be able to make it to midnight tonight without engaging in some form of harassment.
Pretending all men have an equal capacity or desire to engage in that sort of behaviour or trotting out a series on platitudes regurgitated from social will not prevent the men who think it’s acceptable to behave in that manner.
I think saying things like ‘educate sons’ is just unhelpful because I’m not convinced the problem is down to a lack of education.
>”I had to experience the whole walk home having my arms grabbed, my legs grabbed, arms round my waist… It was absolutely terrifying,” she said.
I wonder how those men would react if she had said to them at the time, ‘you’re terrifying me’?
It will almost definitely be unenforceable, because even if it does get to court, it will be in most cases, his word against hers, which creates doubt on proving guilt.
‘I had to experience the whole walk home having my arms grabbed, my legs grabbed, arms round my waist… It was absolutely terrifying,” she said.’
I’m not a lawyer but that behaviour would presumably already be covered by existing laws around assault or sexual assault (depending on the specific nature of the grabbing). If a bloke is already comfortable breaking those laws then I’m highly doubtful a new one will help much.
It’s basically unenforceable
So what’s the answer to this? How do we stop unwanted attention?
How about keeping the camera on and seeing the men that are doing it?
Might be able to see a pattern to the “cultural” change that’s happened making it so common.
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“I just think men are men, they’re just going to be doing their thing.”
There are men who could live to 1000 years old and wouldn’t ever harass a woman and then there are ones who won’t be able to make it to midnight tonight without engaging in some form of harassment.
Pretending all men have an equal capacity or desire to engage in that sort of behaviour or trotting out a series on platitudes regurgitated from social will not prevent the men who think it’s acceptable to behave in that manner.
I think saying things like ‘educate sons’ is just unhelpful because I’m not convinced the problem is down to a lack of education.
>”I had to experience the whole walk home having my arms grabbed, my legs grabbed, arms round my waist… It was absolutely terrifying,” she said.
I wonder how those men would react if she had said to them at the time, ‘you’re terrifying me’?
It will almost definitely be unenforceable, because even if it does get to court, it will be in most cases, his word against hers, which creates doubt on proving guilt.
‘I had to experience the whole walk home having my arms grabbed, my legs grabbed, arms round my waist… It was absolutely terrifying,” she said.’
I’m not a lawyer but that behaviour would presumably already be covered by existing laws around assault or sexual assault (depending on the specific nature of the grabbing). If a bloke is already comfortable breaking those laws then I’m highly doubtful a new one will help much.
It’s basically unenforceable
So what’s the answer to this? How do we stop unwanted attention?
How about keeping the camera on and seeing the men that are doing it?
Might be able to see a pattern to the “cultural” change that’s happened making it so common.