Women speak out against "street harassment"

Bartab · 2012-10-06T21:06:58+00:00

Congress shall make no law [...] abridging the freedom of speech

2012-10-06T22:55:49+00:00

what's this got to do with /mr? catcalling isn't the worse thing that can happen to you but when it happens to a girl you're with you can't help but feel awkward and uncomfortable just by being there so for the girl it must be worse

chavelah · 2012-10-06T22:53:01+00:00

"Earbuds in, volume off..." ah, the memories. So glad I'm living in the suburbs these days. Probably 99.99% percent of the men who engaged with me on the city streets had no ill intent and trying to be complimentary, but that didn't make it any more fun for the young married woman who preferred to have her ass complimented in the privacy of her own home.

Ted8367 · 2012-10-06T22:21:09+00:00

Those poor ladies. Someone ought to tell them about the burqa. Millions wear it, so we know it's a viable solution. Think of the relief from that oppressive male gaze... girls, don't delay, wear one today!

ErasmusMRA · 2012-10-06T23:23:07+00:00

These women need to see a therapist who can teach them how to deal with the world without trying to force it to submit to their will.

TracyMorganFreeman · 2012-10-07T00:13:26+00:00

As someone who occasionally gets honked at and has had women and gay men come up to me and proposition me/comment on my appearance, people need to grow the fuck up and get some thicker skin.

Assholes and people who say things that you don't like/don't care/want to hear are everywhere. You pouting about it isn't going to change that.

ExpendableOne · 2012-10-07T03:22:37+00:00

Fear and discomfort are what define sexual harassment.

But then people still have to be aware that this "fear" and "discomfort" is driven by misandry, gender prejudice, irrational fear, rape histeria and/or a very negative/bigoted predisposition towards men or male sexuality. If I was a man, going out in public, and my first reaction to a woman just looking at me was "omg! she's going to stab me, steal everything I own or sexual assault me!", simply because she's a woman, would I then be justified in calling her stare harassment? An irrational fear of men, or a contempt for male attention/advances, is really not something that people, as a society, should really be encouraging or enabling, just because women feel "uncomfortable around men"(imagine if someone used the "I just don't feel comfortable around black people" excuse to justify radical action against black people). It's pretty sad how sexuality, or basic attraction can be so vilified, yet violence(at least against men) can be so commonly accepted, or how anti-sexuality(or, at least, anti-male heterosexuality in this case) can be so commonly accepted if not only just to appease women.

edit: When people like this say shit like "This infringes our right to walk down the street safely, and we pay taxes too, we deserve to walk down the street and feel safe.", completely dismissing the fact that men technically do not have this right either, and are far more likely to be physically assaulted than women, and completely dismissing the fact that their "inability to feel safe" is entirely dependent on their own personal outlook on men, or male sexuality in of itself, and basic common sense/rationality. No society, in the history of mankind has ever just made crime magically disappear for good. People, including women, should be able to practice common sense, basic principles of self-defence and self-reliability; the way men have not only have had to learn the hard way but been expected to provide for women(it really shouldn't up to men to keep women safe, that is another form of sexism). That kind of unrealistic entitlement is absolutely ridiculous.

yourfaceyourass · 2012-10-06T23:13:26+00:00

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Manatee7474 · 2012-10-06T21:52:24+00:00

Is it really that common?

2012-10-06T22:07:28+00:00

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2012-10-06T23:13:29+00:00

TV....Objectify.... How men are raised........everyone go to sleep..

Title	Women speak out against "street harassment"
Author	HettGutt_MRMarxist
Upvotes	4
Comments	26
Date	October 6, 2012 8:17 PM UTC (13 years ago)
Subreddit	Posted in /r/MensRights
Original Link	https://old.reddit.com/r/MensRights/comments/1120sr/women_speak_out_against_street_harassment/
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