To think that wolf whistling wasn't such a bad thing?

Just popped back to add to this.
All the posters who wrote Joanna Lumley off as a 'has been', saying her opinions don't matter, she is long past it, etc...confusing her personal comments with her rather extensive work history, both past and present.

Wasn't she just fabulous in Amandaland?😏

Agreed. I know there is a school of thought that believes that any celebrity with a posh accent must invariably be clever; but JL's comments reveal her to be spectacularly stupid and tone deaf. In a time when we have epidemic levels of violence against women and girls, she should be ashamed of having used her profile to spout this.

Personally, after years of being harassed - and worse - by men, I know I never found it a complement. It was offensive and intimidating, and usually intended as such. The single best thing for me about getting older - by a long long way - is that I am not subjected to nearly as much harassment by men. Is that not a sad thing for me to have to say?

I’m not sure why any of us care what Joanna Lumley thinks anyway. She’s not someone whose opinion I usually take notice of!

How have I harassed other posters?

Reading through the posts on here, It's ironic that a thread about harassment, you have continuously harassed other posters.

To the poster who posted the video above, no one should have to put up with that sort of harassment.
The topic was originally about wolf whistling, those men were up close to the woman, intimidating her and Verbally insulting her.
Disgusting behaviour.

Reading through the posts on here, It's ironic that a thread about harassment, you have continuously harassed other posters.

To the poster who posted the video above, no one should have to put up with that sort of harassment.
The topic was originally about wolf whistling, those men were up close to the woman, intimidating her and Verbally insulting her.
Disgusting behaviour.

Reading through the posts on here, It's ironic that a thread about harassment, you have continuously harassed other posters.

To the poster who posted the video above, no one should have to put up with that sort of harassment.
The topic was originally about wolf whistling, those men were up close to the woman, intimidating her and Verbally insulting her.
Disgusting behaviour.

As a northerner, being friendly to randoms is fine. Being harassed on the street is not.

As a northerner, being friendly to randoms is fine. Being harassed on the street is not.

@fairycakes1234

I always acknowledge even if I was in the wrong which in this case I wasn't so sorry you had to troll all the way back, screenshot and it was the wrong post xx

You were wrong though.

Novembermorn is the OP!

Reading through the posts on here, It's ironic that a thread about harassment, you have continuously harassed other posters.

To the poster who posted the video above, no one should have to put up with that sort of harassment.
The topic was originally about wolf whistling, those men were up close to the woman, intimidating her and Verbally insulting her.
Disgusting behaviour.

Same here. Being friendly is a way of life to me too.

It's absolutely normal for predatory men to target children and teenagers. Everyone knows this, not sure why anyone on this thread is pretending not to know this.

2015 USA study showed 85% of girls experience street harassment before age 17 https://www.ilr.cornell.edu/news/faculty/street-harassment-statistics

Research shows that 35% of girls wearing school uniforms have been sexually harassed in public spaces in the United Kingdom

https://findanexpert.unimelb.edu.au/news/63332-'i-started-walking-the-long-way'many-young-women-first-experience-street-harassment-in-their-school-uniforms

Some UK school girls hated it so much and were so distressed by it they wanted it to be made illegal

https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/women/street-harassment-girls-crime-debate-parliament-house-of-lords-plan-international-uk-a8664381.html

According to this source 97 percent of women have experienced street harassment.

https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/news/misogyny-research-pioneers-hail-new-police-action-to-record-harassment-of-women

So, back to the original question.

If you enjoyed street harassment, I think you are extremely weird, since having strange creepy men making noises at you is at best very unsettling to me. I always loathed it, found it embarrassing, disgusting and distressing.

However, you can continue to enjoy having creepy, weird men making noises at you if you wish.

What you cannot do is pretend that all women agree with you that it's a bit of a larf when strange predatory men make noises at women as they try to simply exist and go about their lives.

And you cannot pretend that this was ever the case at any time in history as comon sense as well as documented history proves that women always loathed street harassment.

Sadly, for as long as women have been begging for men to simply leave them alone and stop harrassing them, let them exist and go about their day in safety and peace, there have been people trying to pretend it's normal and stick up for these men.

"In 1887, after covering the issue of harassment for some time, the Pall Mall Gazette ran a column of responses entitled “What the ‘Male Pests’ Have to Say for Themselves.” Some insisted on their freedom to follow and speak to women. As one wrote, unless England were to follow the practice of “locking up women as they do in the East, there is nothing [left] but to leave men perfectly free to gaze at and even follow women as they please.” Others criticized the “respectable” women who wrote in for assuming that no morally upright woman would want to be “spoken to”—with at least one suggesting that they were misunderstanding courtship practices among working-class men and women who hold their “evening parties in the street.”

https://daily.jstor.org/street-harassment-in-victorian-london/

All this information is widely available, but more than that we all know it anyway, even the ones pretending not to.

In conclusion, perhaps "you" enjoy street harassment.

Many, clearly, do not.

Went and stayed in London with my cousin last year and couldn't believe the way noone interacted like that, I couldn't live like that, I like chatting and listening to people x

Yep, and this is totally normal and standard behaviour in all cities, predatory men predating on women is the standard everywhere.

But like I said all the way through, if these women enjoy creepy strange men making weird noises at them in public, they can do that.

What they cannot get away with doing is minimising the degradation and fear for other women and children. And that's really what the arguments are about.

One the one hand, manpandering handmaidens, on the other women who care about women and children. And never the twain shall meet.