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

I expect my tall brown son-often dressed im a hoodie- will have trouble moving out of London or a major city. Anywhere else, he might be a dangerous migrant, especially as many of his friends are either black or brown. He also speaks two foreign languages. More fool him!

Lol. You clearly haven’t visited ‘outside of London’ any time recently 😂

Anything similar between all these men you can think of?

Sigh. But you didn’t mention white bad behaviour in your original post, and no one is psychic.

On the 3rd one, Ive has similar. Not references to being a refuge but some men get angry if they think you acted as though you consider them a threat.

So if I've crossed the street when there's a man walking towards me they've shouted at me for it and said 'did you think I was going to take you or something', similar comments when I turned into an alley and there were 3 men stoop there smoking and I turned back.

The situations you describe would have concerned me too. In general I don't feel less safe though.

The phone thing is normal, I have seen many people have it snatched out of their hands over the years.

I have noticed more middle aged white men driving like bellends in my leafy suburban area. Frequently on the side of the road you see them fighting each other.

Seems to increase every year, along with pictures of them in the local paper with their pasty faces being arrested for GBH, SA and drug dealing usually.

Men are acting increasingly unhinged where I live. Hundreds of them from all over the country all put on balaclavas and black outfits and protested not too far away, parking blocking lanes and being very thuggish, which made the national news. Scary times indeed.

Oh, I have. But since the Pakistani under- 19 cricket team was mobbed at Portsmouth by mouthbreathing morons, I might be warier. Or tell my son to be wary anyway.

That's what I was thinking.

I grew up in a rural village there were a few ethic minorities I grew up with decades ago and they were just part of who we grew up with but hitting secondary in town about half the school was second and third generation asian - and quite few mix race and other ethnicties.

There are fewer ethic minorties in rural britain - partly as there's little work to move to but rural britain have access to cars, trains, planes and TV and internet - we are not completely cut off from the world outside of London.

Here there was an issue with a romanian gang and beggers pre covid - but since then it's mostly native born groups at leasts going by accents - that seem to cause most issues and often drug and alcohol related and petty crimes and assults are up in shopping area and police are reponding with more visible police.

I've no idea what OP area is like and if it's a perception or actual issue in her case or case of more people being more aggressive - which we saw post covid here but has died down pretty much completely now.

Unfortunately the teens on bikes with balaclavas is becoming an issue, not just in the U.K. too. Most aren’t even on illegal bikes, just push bikes and very few are doing anything illegal but their presence is intimidating. The police rounded up several here yesterday (leafy fairly affluent town) they weren’t actually from here though, they lived in the nearby city, and apart from a couple of e scooters they didn’t have any things to charge them with because hanging out in a balaclava dressed in black isn’t an offence

I feel it, I am nearly 50 and large numbers of HMOs housing refugees across from my granddaughters school, one was seen by some parents with his hand down his shorts across the road from the school causing protests about them being housed overlooking the school gates.
I was walking my Granddaughter back home one evening last week and 3 young men were sitting on a bench and they stared at my 10 year old granddaughter and as we passed them they spat at her.

She only lives 5 minutes away from her school and last year she would walk home by herself but now my daughter will collect her or I will pick her up as it’s just too dangerous.

Christ

I don't believe I said rural Britain does not have cars, trains, planes or automobiles.

You pretty much said outside London and major urban area people are automtaically racists - I assumed becuase you think non-white faces are unknown to us because we just do not encounter them because we can not travel persuably or watch any media.

Then point to Portmouth - a sad fucking incident all round - but one that happens in a city an urban area the second most densely populated local authority area in the UK after London.

No, that's not what I said at all.
But carry on making up shit.

Men men men

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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?

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.

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.