Is It Now Time That The Wearing Of The Burka Is Compulsory For All Women?

[anotheoldgit]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6135997/Misogyny-step-closer-hate-crime-ministers-announce-Law-Commission-review.html

[Rockrose]

//Would castration stop women wanting attention though?//
I don't know - show me a woman that wants attention in the way the OP is showing?

[woofgang]

Spath its not nice, its not polite and it can be threatening and frightening.

[mccfluff]

it's bloody intimidating and its not pleasant

[kvalidir]

I tend to agree with Woof, that if your society is functioning properly there ought to be no need for gender specific legislation. The thing with 'minor' unwanted sexual attention, some of it is in the victims perception, generally it's not the act in itself, wolf whistling, cat calling, compliments etc, but rather who does it. If it's someone you don't fancy or like you take exception and it's abusive, if it's someone you fancy you don't consider it to be harassment, so I'm largely against anything which curtails what can be normal human interaction but would like to see things toughened up against genuine hate and control. There is a difference and I think most women know that.

[andy-hughes]

AOG - // andy-hughes


/// Either way, your OP is poorly worded in my view. ///

And who ever takes any notice of your views? Don't be so po faced. //

Po faced versus mocking the harassment of women?

I'll take po faced, thanks!

[youngmafbog]

Soon be illegal to be a man.

Personally I thing we should introduce a law against Misandry too, what is sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander.

[anotheoldgit]

kvalidir

/// generally it's not the act in itself, wolf whistling, cat calling, compliments etc, but rather who does it. If it's someone you don't fancy or like you take exception and it's abusive, if it's someone you fancy you don't consider it to be harassment, ///

And how would the person doing the wolf-whistling, know if you fancied him or not?

[jno]

it's his job to find out first, aog.

[andy-hughes]

Basically, it's not punishment that men need, in order to stop them behaving in an offensive and / or intimidating fashion, it's education.


If we bring up boys to respect girls, they will grow into men who respect women.

Prevention beats punishment every day - why not make a man respectful in the first place, rather than simply punishing him because he doesn't understand what respect actually means because no-one taught it to him when he was growing up.

[andy-hughes]

AOG - // And how would the person doing the wolf-whistling, know if you fancied him or not? //

A little self-analysis does the trick I think.

I am sixty-three, and I do have film star looks, but unfortunately, that film star is Woody Allen.

Is a gorgeous twenty-year-old stranger likely to appreciate me whistling at her as I drive past? Unlikely, so I don't do it.

But sadly as my last post pointed out, this is a matter of respect, not deciding if you are God's gift or not.

[youngmafbog]

AH, it's the same for women. They also need to learn to respect men, this is not a one way thing.

[Rockrose]

//If we bring up boys to respect girls, they will grow into men who respect women. //
Well said but it is obvious that there are some of the older generation on here that have no respect for women!

[andy-hughes]

YMB - // AH, it's the same for women. They also need to learn to respect men, this is not a one way thing. //

You live in the same society as I do - honestly, which way do you think the sexual harassment dynamic flows - towards women or towards men?

We are a male-dominated society - it's up to men to start making the changes.

[youngmafbog]

//Well said but it is obvious that there are some of the older generation on here that have no respect for women!//

What utter rot. More likely to be an older person letting a women go first or giving up their seat - and then getting abused by the woman.

[youngmafbog]

AH, I'm guessing you have never worked in an all (or mostly) female environment?

[anotheoldgit]

Good job Ballroom Dancing is now out of fashion, or it would be classed as harassment of women to ask a lady for a dance, and selecting a certain lady during a 'Gentleman's Excuse Me Danc'e, would almost be classed as sexual assault.

[dannyk13]

//What utter rot. More likely to be an older person letting a women go first or giving up their seat - and then getting abused by the woman//
Totally agree, it happened to me on more than one occasion.

[anotheoldgit]

Rockrose

/// Well said but it is obvious that there are some of the older generation on here that have no respect for women! ///

And it is obvious that there are some of the younger generation on here, who have no respect for men, the older generation or even MILs in some cases.