Notts police to record harassment as a misogynistic hate crime

In such a way that it should be punished differently*

A two tier punishment system based on gender is anything but equality IMO

Speak i realise reading back that my grammar was terrible but it was still readable, so I don't know if you're purposefully mistaking what I said, but I'll try again.

I'm not sure that because women suffer abuse more than men it makes the actual abuse worse

"I'm not sure that women suffer harassment more than men"..... oh, ok then .... that's odd then, isn't it, that it's such a feature of discussion, with websites such as everydaysexism and so on. Maybe women are just over sensitive to men trying to compliment them? Also odd that I've been harassed on the streets many times in my life, because I'm female, whereas my partner who is male has never been harassed on the streets by women due to his sex.

A positive step, but isn't the fact there doesn't seem to be one for misandry, in itself misandry? If a man harasses a woman it's a hate crime, yet woman harasses man it's just harassment, when population wise it's 50:50 and I'm not sure that women suffer harassment more than men, makes the actual harassment worse. It's essentially signalling one is worse than the other because one is a man and one is a woman

I wonder why it hasn't been recorded before when "gender identity" is already on the list of characteristics that apply here? Surely "woman" is a valid gender identity, and so being harassed due to being a woman is already a hate crime?

Not before time. Some men get away with too much shitty public conduct, and misogyny has for too long been viewed as 'second-tier' in terms of legislation.

Ooh! This should be a sign of things turning for the better

Yes this is really positive! Hope it catches on.

Did you see the video of the reporter being harassed while reporting on harassment? I really wished she had got the camera crew to chase the guy down and asked him to explain himself on camera. Bet he would have shrivelled up like a salted slug.

I think it's good news too. I hope it's spread across the UK.

Oh good stuff! This can only help.

Interesting that they aren't going to report DV under the same heading because it has it's own procedure. Can't it have it's own procedure and still be recorded as a misogynistic hate crime? Can't it be categorised under both DV and a hate crime? All seems a bit inflexible .