Entitled dickhead in beauty spot

This. ^ And some creepy men like to take advantage of this fact.

Maybe he was just hoping to chat. Maybe it's his daily spot.

I would have said, "Yes, very lovely." Then allowed a long pause. Then pleasantly said, without moving, "Would you like to sit?" and gesture to the bench. And if he said yes, I'd have moved over.

Always listen to your gut. You felt uncomfortable, that’s enough reason to want to move away. Don’t worry about being polite. Any half decent man would know a woman is liable to feel threatened in such a situation. I hike on my own and go out of my way to avoid such encounters.

Are you serious? True, not every man is a freaky perv, but a lone woman dare not take the risk!

Unless the OP's 'entitled arse' is 6 feet wide, it's highly unlikely she would leave no room by sitting in the middle of the bench.

Ludicrous post!

Was he staring at her?

I've gone back and re read OP and can't see her saying he was staring.......?

Indeed. There’s a reason why men are 95% of the prison population

Oh my goodness, he wanted to sit down more than once? 😱 Call the police immediately the scoundrel.

So had you left plenty of room on this bench for him to also sit down?

Or was your entitled arse plonked in the middle leaving no room?

This. ^

My (young adult) DD and I were at a famous beauty spot some weeks ago, and there was no-one there ... We had walked from the car park - it was 10 minutes walk...

We looked at the wonderful view for a few minutes, and then thought we would take some photos. A few of each other, a few joint selfies, and a few self timer ones. We both wanted to take 3 or 4 videos too.

We had taken 2 photos, and this man popped up out of nowhere, and started chatting shit. 'Oh it's nice here isn't it girls?' We were like 'err yeah, it is.' We tried to carry on with what we were doing, but he would not STFU. He kept babbling on and chatting, even though we were trying to take photos and videos. I had to keep restarting my videos, as he kept talking over them. I was thinking 'oh FFS!'

DD and I were trying to take selfies and self timer pics and he was standing there, no more than 10-12 feet from us, just watching. It made us so uneasy, and gave us the collywobbles. So we just left and walked back to the car. 15 minutes later, he walked past and went to his car and drove off. Fucking weirdo.

So we waited 10 minutes, and walked back, and did what we should have done before the creepy man came along.

The 'oh dear men can't do anything' posters can just jog on honestly! How fucking dare he just intrude like this? He would never have done it if my DH had been with us.

Yes, let’s all pretend that a man standing near a seated woman and staring at her isn’t at all unnerving.

YABU!

But only because I'm a petty bench hogger myself. Hubby and I have "claimed" a bench at our favourite local beauty spot and darn right I'm going to hover if someone else is there 🤣🤣🤣

However, YANBU that it would feel creepy as a lone woman in a secluded spot.

She said quite clearly he was staring at her.

If you’ve never been made uncomfortable by a man staring at you (not glancing) then you’re very lucky.

It’s understandable that women are even more wary in isolated spots.

he didn’t creep up on her, or startle her! He likely had no idea she was even remotely perturbed give they were in a public place frequented by walkers (with or without dogs).

Presumably he was hovering because he made the trip to that spot purposely to sit on that bench. Maybe he does it every day. You say hovering in a “bullying” fashion but that could be entirely your interpretation. He could have just been standing there waiting.
Should he have moved on? Yes and no. Entirely up for him at the end of the day.

It feels almost like some posters want men to apologise for just being "there"
I don't think his behaviour was particularly odd or a power play.

He wanted to admire the view, maybe didn't feel comfortable sitting next to op so he stood by the bench, which is probably a prime spot for the best view which is why the bench is there

Stating a point detached from reality or resorting to hylerbole never strengthens any argument

Agree. I live within a 5 min walk of a beautiful view through local woods.
A guy got his dick out in front of a woman and her child a few days ago!
WTAF , so today I only walked there when I could see an elderly couple entering the woods,just why should us females feel so vulnerable?

I’m a good person and I think you’re nuts.

Power? The man was on a dog walk and is now on Mumsnet for the jury to decide if he's a creep or not for simply saying the view is lovely.

Mumsnet gets stranger everyday!

But you sat in the bench presumably coz it was a nice view…. Maybe he thought it was nice too and was, momentarily admiring it!

🙄

Yes he’s of course he’s ’entitled’. It doesn’t make him any less of a dick. You clearly don’t understand power and how it works.