Feeling less safe alone in daylight: is anyone else noticing this?

I'm retired so there is no need, I don't have to leave the house for work, if I want to go out DH will come with me, it's not like the old days when you had to go to the bank and shops

yup. ignorant people doing what they do best I suppose

well that is sad for you, and very unusual

They are so tiresome and predictable right?

Take my area for example - lots of young men in balaclavas in whizzing around on bikes, some engaged in anti-social behaviour and some not.

Also lots of older seemingly unemployed men that sit and drink in the park at all times of the day when they’re not lining up in the pharmacy to get their methadone.

I suppose no-one will make an angry Facebook page or frothy mumsnet thread about them because they’re predominantly white with the odd Black or mixed race kids thrown in among the younger ones.

You never go out alone at all??

Yes, it is clearly set up for racists to wang on about the usual. Did report but MN says not breaking their guidelines whereas my post (on a different thread) saying someone was naive for thinking a billionaire didn't use offshore accounts purely to avoid tax, was!

We have a lot of young thugs, I never go out alone though as it is too dangerous.

Yes, I could tell OP worded it in the way they did to get these kind of replies. It was very dog whistly.

People act as if the streets were so safe before these “men off the boats came”and it’s laughable.

Even in Scotland which has had decades battling their horrendous violence and drug problem certain racists are now trying to blame it on the immigrant men because some of them are dealing.

Okay yes maybe that’s the case some are dealing and/or using, and i am not excusing it but hardly surprising that young men not allowed to work and made to feel they don’t belong would end up involved in drugs.

But either way they are absolutely not the cause of the drug or gang problem in Scotland. I grew up there in the 90s when it was like 99% white and people were still getting stabbed for wearing the wrong colour of football top back then and the drug problem was very visible in Glasgow City centre with drug addicts walking about like zombies and one tried to mug me when I told him I didn’t have any change 😂

To blame it on the migrants is absurd and racist. Talk about scapegoating.

Nope. Don't agree with thugs, masked or otherwise. Don't agree with racists either. Generally a fan of bikes, and I agree with push scooters.

How about you?

Thankfully those horrible racist posts above have just been deleted! 👍🏻

They just don’t belong here? Says who?

And can I add that I feel very intimidated by largely white men of all ages on many weekends when I lived in Glasgow due to the football and alcohol and violence and sexist culture .

I don’t know where you get the idea that women are so well treated in this country.

These (British) men I am referring to are drunk, leery, violent with each other and generally antisocial.

I find it interesting it’s just these young black men you find scary.

If you feel intimidated by non white people on the streets have the courage to say so. Don’t weasel word about it.

Do you agree with young thugs, all masked up on bikes and scooters also

You sound incredibly paranoid and sexist. Being cautious & vigilant is sensible but this was so far beyond either of those, that it’s no longer visible

It’s could be you were vigilant and avoided something or you are anxious and there was no threat. It’s really hard to say.

This is a nasty thread

I don’t feel any of these. However I don’t feel safe walking out alone if in a forest.

I have never seen a large group of men other than the ones who came in their hundreds to my area a few weeks ago. I am not on social media with all of it's fake news, so maybe that's what the issue is.

I think there are some men about who enjoy trying to frighten women.
I often walk on deserted beaches, I have noticed that it’s quite common for men, often middle aged men to start walking towards me, when there are vast expanses of beach to walk on.
There is absolutely no reason for them to approach me.
When I am walking my neighbour’s large dog, it does not happen.
I have started to think that they get a thrill out of it.

What? You support all these young men arriving in small boats do you. Hanging about with their views of woman as 2nd class citizens. Being housed when we have our own homeless to deal with. Being given leaflets not to rape.
Even seen a woman stoned to death?

It absolutely is the point when only some groups of men are called out and condemned for their intimidating behaviour. Which is what is happening and what my post is about.

Because when only some groups of men are called out you know that the issues is not that the chattering classes ( and include the media and our public institutions in this) care about the intimidating behaviour, but that they care about what cause the initimidating behaviour is about.

Men in black were publicly, in gangs shouting abuse and threats at women and following them down the street screaming at them, and this is all well recorded and the MSM media said not a word about it. This went on for years.

It is men though, always.
No one wearing black and a balaclava is not trying to intimidate. We should not have them roaming the streets.
The post was about if MEN are intimidating, so yes, they are getting increasingly intimidating and being wound up by socials and high reliance on steroids in many cases. Whatever they are fighting "for" is really not the point.

I feel like this in the past year. Incidents have escalated. I don’t live in an affluent area, but round here crime is getting more violent and more frequent. It’s not something I am imagining.

I'm sorry but for over a decade now men have been wearing black and covering their faces to threaten and intimidate women meeting to support women's rights, and the pro-Palestinian protestors often cover their faces too. The wearing black and covering your face is called black out and originates from the environmental movement ( or so I am told by a long term environmental activist). Its so common now at protests that I recently say a picture drawn by a school child of a protestor holding a banner with their face covered. In other words, her generation associates marchers with face covering.

No one has given a sod about all this when middle class 'left wing' protestors have been doing this for middle class causes but as soon as a few hundred working class white men do this to protest suddenly it makes national news and everyone is up in arms about men in black covering their faces.

The hypocrisy is astounding. No wonder society is collapsing when different communities are treated so blatantly differently by the chattering classes.

I also live in an affluent, rural town and I walk to and from work every day, 20 minutes each way and never see men lurking or looking 'out of place'.

I also walk the dog every evening and at weekends. I have not seen any men lurking around there either. Never had to throw my mobile phone into a hedgerow because someone was walking towards me.

The only interactions I have with men on my walk to and from work are positive.

The OP has a sinister undertone of racism and 'boat people' to it and I think I shall therefore name is for what it is: scaremongering and anti-migrant sentiment.

The pink-faced racists and bigots in my local Facebook group genuinely frighten me more. I recently walked past one man verbally attacking a young girl outside the local cafe because the owner supports the trans community. I did slow down and I thought about doing something to help but thankfully a group of men walked over to assist and get this idiot away. Later on, they returned and smashed the cafe up. The media is whipping these people into a frenzy.