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Men taking photos of women eating on the tube

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JaneinReading · 08/04/2014 08:40

www.standard.co.uk/news/london/end-humiliating-game-of-taking-photos-of-women-eating-on-the-tube-9243220.html

I am not sure it is lawful if it is of one woman where she has a reasonable expectation of privacy.

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cuxibcuxib · 04/05/2014 01:15

"libertytrainers Mon 21-Apr-14 22:43:00
i'd like to start a similar campaign taking pics of men whose trousers are low slung so you can see their pants."

You're creepy. Taking photos of people's underwear without consent isn't quite the same as people eating is it?

Punkatheart · 25/04/2014 10:29

It also made me laugh that having previously been called Anthony Burke, he changed his name to Tony. Too many gags about A Burke, clearly.

Punkatheart · 22/04/2014 12:25

They certainly seem to have many more freedoms, Rosh. That's why challenging it on the Circle Line party was a great thing.

Roshbegosh · 22/04/2014 11:40

The number of nose picking men on the tube is horrific, too disgusting to even photograph and anyway who would look at that? Men can do whatever the fuck they like can't they?

Punkatheart · 22/04/2014 11:34

I know what you mean, Liberty - but I feel it is wrong to target anyone by putting the focus on gender.

libertytrainers · 21/04/2014 22:43

i'd like to start a similar campaign taking pics of men whose trousers are low slung so you can see their pants.

Punkatheart · 21/04/2014 22:41

Sorry should have introduced the link: it's a response to WWEOT. The picnic on the Tube was a response to such idiocy.

Punkatheart · 21/04/2014 22:36

theinflectionist.com/2014/04/21/little-mice/

NiceTabard · 11/04/2014 20:14

Wildlife photography? He equates women with animals?

Well OK I think that's all we need to know about him.

EEasterChick · 11/04/2014 20:09

Bollocks posting by phone.

And was Shock that he was justifying this as 'art'. Seriously? He said it was like wildlife photography and really doesn't care that women may not want to be exhibits in his project. Came across as a nasty, entitled tosser.

EEasterChick · 11/04/2014 20:09

Bollocks posting by phone.

And was Shock that he was justifying this as 'art'. Seriously? He said it was like wildlife photography and really doesn't care that women may not want to be exhibits in his project. Came across as a nasty, entitled tosser.

NiceTabard · 11/04/2014 20:08

rendered speechless by what a twat he was?

Grin
EEasterChick · 11/04/2014 20:06

I heard the bloke on Today this morning and was

ShotgunNotDoingThePans · 11/04/2014 16:55

^"The website is called women eating on the tube."

But both men and women are contributing.^

Does the fact that some women are colluding in the whole 'point and stare' thing make it okay? We all know twattery isn't a male perovative, don't we? < please no one say I've just proved my own point Grin >

JaneinReading · 11/04/2014 16:28

It is gender neutral under the Data Protection Act 1998 and the same if you're 2 or 95. In most cases public photos are fine so you perform oral sex in public at your peril as one couple did outside a bank CCTV not realising they were caught on camera unless there is an expectation of privacy which I think there may well be for many individual photos and the case law supports me. There has been loads of general debate about this issue. The Police had to reissued their legal guidance on the right of citizens to take photos of police as it was too limiting of the right to photograph in a public place.

However my feminism point, rather than my legal point, was that women are more attacked for their looks than men and more attacked generally in public spaces, more accosted, more shouted out - give us a smile love, cor I'd like a bit of that etc etc. This page by being about women eating seemed part of that process.

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NiceTabard · 11/04/2014 14:20

What difference does it make if men and women are contributing?

Why should a 16 year old girl eating a biscuit on the tube have photos covertly taken of her and posted on the internet?

Why do they have a rule saying that this must not be done if the girl is 15?

How do they even know how old people are?

My mum eats mints sometimes on the tube. How's she going to feel about a stranger photographing her and posting it on the net? Why is it notable if she does it as a woman but not my dad?

It is fucking bizarre. And out of line. Glad it has been taken down Smile

wugiwugi · 11/04/2014 14:12

"The website is called women eating on the tube."

But both men and women are contributing.

wugiwugi · 11/04/2014 14:11

The group is unavailable as of now. But it disappeared before then appeared again.

NiceTabard · 11/04/2014 14:10

The website is called women eating on the tube.

Are we to pretend that it isn't Confused

NiceTabard · 11/04/2014 14:09

Anyone know why he as a "no minors" policy out of interest? It makes no sense at all.

wugiwugi · 11/04/2014 14:08

@NiceTabard like I already said, both men and women are equally uploading photos. It isn't just men.

NiceTabard · 11/04/2014 14:08

"His view is that as soon as you step out of your house then you lose your privacy. "

He means women and girls lose their privacy.

I bet if he had men staring at, leering over and photographing him every day since he was about 14 he might have a slightly different view on the matter.

What an absolute wanker.

wugiwugi · 11/04/2014 14:07

And if anyone wants to take a photo of me eating so some random facebook people can discuss my choice of lunch go ahead I don't really care. Just ask and I'll even pose for you

NiceTabard · 11/04/2014 14:06

Why is there a "strict rule" about no minors being included in the photographs? I don't understand that. That points to there being a sexual side, surely?

Is it OK to post a picture of a 16 yo girl eating a mars bar but not a 15yo? Why not? Why not a 15 or 16 yo boy?

Whole thing is weird as fuck and girls / women have enough to contend with creeps staring at them / following them / making comments to them / touching them without the added bonus of checking for men photographing them if they have a biscuit on the way to college FFS.

Really annoyed TBH.

winkywinkola · 11/04/2014 14:06

I heard this guy on Radio 4 this am.

His view is that as soon as you step out of your house then you lose your privacy.

He sounds like a creepy, self righteous piece of work.

FB have removed the page now.