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Wolf Whistling To Be Made Illegal!?
Have just heard on the news on the radio that they are trying to make it illegal for a man to wolf whistle at a woman!! Apparently its ‘against a woman’s human rights’. Don’t think I’ve ever heard anything so stupid in my life! I would blush and take it as a compliment. Your thoughts??
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/// youngmafbog: I'm not sure what you meant by that Canary. Care to explain? ///
Sound laws are sabotaged by being taken to ridiculous extremes.
As Mamya said "By concentrating on one potentially trivial strand it's easy to lose sight of the whole issue."
Or as you yourself said "...by adding the wolf whistle bit they undermine the good bits "
Sound laws are sabotaged by being taken to ridiculous extremes.
As Mamya said "By concentrating on one potentially trivial strand it's easy to lose sight of the whole issue."
Or as you yourself said "...by adding the wolf whistle bit they undermine the good bits "
Since no specific proposals have been published, though, it's not clear that this is the intention. The reporting has picked up on a reference to "street harassment", taken one example of that behaviour, and run with it to an extreme.
The references I can find mention "new advice on *existing laws* for police offers to more effectively respond to street harassment" (p18 of my link earlier, emphasis added); and on page 71 a promise to "look carefully at gaps in existing law and how a specific offence for public sexual harassment could address those". This, along with a promise to encourage reporting of any harassment that falls under existing laws, and to study the roots of such behaviour in order to discourage harassment from occuring in the first place.
It is presumably clear that wolf-whistling is a small part of this, but the idea that it will become a specific and separate offence is an invention. In particular, whether or not a wolf-whistle is welcome, what would determine if a crime has been committed is the aftermath. If, for example, a woman takes no offence from being whistled at, then already that ends the matter; the State cannot take offence on her behalf. If, instead, a woman complains and is met with derision or abuse as a result, then it would be the entire package that was the offence, and the whistling only a contributing factor. And if, finally, a woman complains and is met with an apology, then the problem ends there.
The references I can find mention "new advice on *existing laws* for police offers to more effectively respond to street harassment" (p18 of my link earlier, emphasis added); and on page 71 a promise to "look carefully at gaps in existing law and how a specific offence for public sexual harassment could address those". This, along with a promise to encourage reporting of any harassment that falls under existing laws, and to study the roots of such behaviour in order to discourage harassment from occuring in the first place.
It is presumably clear that wolf-whistling is a small part of this, but the idea that it will become a specific and separate offence is an invention. In particular, whether or not a wolf-whistle is welcome, what would determine if a crime has been committed is the aftermath. If, for example, a woman takes no offence from being whistled at, then already that ends the matter; the State cannot take offence on her behalf. If, instead, a woman complains and is met with derision or abuse as a result, then it would be the entire package that was the offence, and the whistling only a contributing factor. And if, finally, a woman complains and is met with an apology, then the problem ends there.
Just to clarify something.
Wolf whistling isn’t just a cheeky chappie winking/blowing a kiss at a woman walking past his shop…a woman he’s known for years and the attention forms part of their relationship.
Wolf whistling is also the woman who has to walk past a building site every morning to get to the tube and every morning knows that a couple of blokes will exhort her to “Get em out for the lads”.
We should remember the woman in the first example isn’t going to report this but the woman in the second example now has legal recourse.
Wolf whistling isn’t just a cheeky chappie winking/blowing a kiss at a woman walking past his shop…a woman he’s known for years and the attention forms part of their relationship.
Wolf whistling is also the woman who has to walk past a building site every morning to get to the tube and every morning knows that a couple of blokes will exhort her to “Get em out for the lads”.
We should remember the woman in the first example isn’t going to report this but the woman in the second example now has legal recourse.
Tbh, I think David has been exceptionally brave and honest- genuinely, many men wouldn't admit to that.
It just seems such a tiny step though, from admitting harassing women due to their clothing, while also seeming a little baffled, that they are less likely to want to be seen "dressed up" in public. Maybe a few more minutes to an actual correlation. So close, and yet so far.... :-)
It just seems such a tiny step though, from admitting harassing women due to their clothing, while also seeming a little baffled, that they are less likely to want to be seen "dressed up" in public. Maybe a few more minutes to an actual correlation. So close, and yet so far.... :-)
Never minded the whistles in my youth, catwalks and unwanted comments just gave me some put down practice..p
Local builder sees me leave house with female ex
'ere luv, are you a lesbian?'
Why, does you wife want an orgasm for the first time in her life?
Are those tits real?
If they are not I've hid the join really well
Local builder sees me leave house with female ex
'ere luv, are you a lesbian?'
Why, does you wife want an orgasm for the first time in her life?
Are those tits real?
If they are not I've hid the join really well
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