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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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Discobugsacha · 08/04/2014 19:57

Nobody should eat on the tube, especially greasy smelly food. It's disgusting sitting next to someone slurping their way through a burger. So name and shame I say!

tribpot · 08/04/2014 19:50

“the gender aspect is a random coincidence.”

Errr .. so what are we saying, someone wanted to make a new Facebook group, used a random word generator to create the topic and: voila. Women Who Eat on Tubes.

YesAnastasia · 08/04/2014 19:46

I don't like it at all. Women are made a spectacle of for various things all the time, it's unfair & unnecessary. I am acutely conscious of most things I do in public, it's because of this kind of shit. It's a fetish and it shouldn't be allowed.

NiceTabard · 08/04/2014 19:40

Well that's just fucking weird and creepy. A if women don't have enough to contend with already when they're out and about.

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JaneinReading · 08/04/2014 18:21

Didn't realise there was another thread on here on it.
You can tkae pictures in public unless there is a reasonable expectation of privacy (JK Rowling won a case when her child was photographed in the street in his buggy which was a surprising result in my view). You might be able to argue that when you're eating you've a reasonable expectation of privacy or may be not. Could go either way.

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BertieBotts · 08/04/2014 09:25

It wouldn't seem so bad if it was "People who eat on the tube" and there were an equal number of men and women photographed. Still creepy but less so. But it's more "Haha, women, eating! Hilarious!"

FFS people have to eat!

BertieBotts · 08/04/2014 09:24

That's really creepy :( I already feel self conscious about eating in public, if it's not at a cafe or somewhere like that.

NurseyWursey · 08/04/2014 09:21

The newspapers got this story from here, there was a thread in AIBU.

Whilst I don't agree with it, I've been on the page and the people seem okay. They go mad at people who make sexist, lude or inappropriate comments. They don't like swearing. Both men and women take part.

TheDoctrineOfSnatch · 08/04/2014 09:11

Dad77, no law as if there were there would be no paparazzi.

The guy who runs the group saying it's not gendered when he's called the group "Women who eat on the Tube" is clearly several sandwiches short of a picnic...

BreakingDad77 · 08/04/2014 08:56

I thought there was a law against taking and publishing a persons image without consent.

Also c'mon taking a picture of a women putting something in her mouth, wouldnt be suprised this is some fetish.