Men are pushing women over in the street - as a trend

My mother said to carry a metal ended tail comb in public. She said it came in useful against the frotters, but I can imagine it would work well in other scenarios too.

Light a cigarette while walking.

Umbrella tip sticking up out of the handbag.

Hasn’t every woman had this?

I’ve burnt a few freaks in my time.

Handy hint: A scar’s better than the loud Oi.

Yes to tasers and curfews, I’d also like to bring back the stocks for these reprobates!

This happened to me, just over 20 years ago. I was early 30s and heavily pregnant walking along in a busy shopping centre with my mum.
A woman about the similar age barged right into me exactly as the OP describes. Like a full shoulder body blow. I was shocked and still remember it very clearly.

Fortunately I'm pretty sturdy and she didn't knock me over.

There really are some very odd people about.

A weird man tried to barge me the other day. He was staring at me, crossed over the wide path and tried to collide with me. He failed, then became abusive because I gave him a dirty look. Twat.

😄 my thoughts too! A curfew between the hours of 6 in the morning and 11 at night should do the trick. How much safer would we all be.

Exactly the same here. St Pancras a few weeks ago.

A lot of men really are sad little fuckers aren’t they? Imagine being in their desperate unwanted unloved little brains. 🤮🤮. I guess that’s where the problem lies. No one wants them. No one ever wanted them. Apart from tasering I’m not quite sure how to get rid of them.

Omg I was barged past a few days ago in London and I turned around and thought “Wtf was that for?!” to just see the back of them. It felt far too forceful to be an accident and he didn’t turn around to apologise. I hope it’s a coincidence but it did stop me in my tracks and I nearly said something - but I had my kids with me.

This is so depressing but not that surprising.

I used to hold my own in mosh pits in the 90s. Because anyone who bashed into me got a cigarette burn very quickly.

A taser would also get the job done.

I had this happen to me too, on a coastal path a few years ago. The path was narrow, but still wide enough for two people to pass one another as long as both moved to the side. I did so, the man coming towards me didn't even though he'd clearly seen me, and shoulder-barged me hard as he passed. No apology and he didn't glance back when I remonstrated with him.

Other public harassment in the past year has been a male jogger passing me from behind and saying "C**t" loudly as he did so, and a boy saying "BItch" as he passed me. I've been harassed and insulted by men in public before, but it's usually been as part of some kind of altercation, not just insults for the sake of insults.

What also happens a great deal is men muttering under their breath as they pass: something I can catch what they say (always insulting), but other times not. It's clearly a deliberate tactic as they never look at me as they pass, never move closer to me, so to anyone nearby it would seem like nothing had happened at all. Any CCTV would also of course show nothing.

I'm always on my own when out and about which obviously makes me more of a target, and it's got worse since I let my hair go grey a few years back (I'm now 59). Such men seem to be positively angered by my daring to exist and be outside and I suppose my age makes me seem utterly pointless to them. The muttering is almost always from men around my age or older.

In all these cases I always call out after them (except with muttering I can't make out), but usually with something less than what I feel as it happens so suddenly and before I know it, they're gone. To anyone else nearby, of course, it just looks as if I'm some barmy lady randomly calling out at strangers.

Wow, I have heard of this happening but had no idea it was so common.

Near me a teenage boy recently kicked a teenage girl off her bike, as she was cycling along the road minding her own business. At least he's been charged. I don't suppose there will be any consequences for him though, there never seem to be, do there?

Really. Have never witnessed this.

Personally I think every woman should learn krav maga

(Yes I do also think the cultural kickback against Israel is in part because we're losing our instinctive respect for women's rights in the west)

I had it in a supermarket. 2 men were practically blocking the aisle chatting so I went to squeeze round them with my trolley

I could see a bloke look at me and start running towards me to slam into me from the side. I managed to block him with my trolley before he slammed into me

he started screaming and shouting, not because he was hurt but because he didn’t manage to potentially injure me. I reported him to security and carried on with my shopping

Similar things happened near my local shops. My daughter spotted a young man deliberately trying to trip up elderly women by sticking his leg out. She told me as I haven't got great mobility since covid. Ironically whilst watching out for that, I ended up getting a load of verbal abuse from the occupants of a passing car.

Its 10000% worse when you are a nurse. This type ov things happens all the time towards health care staff. And it's women attacking too

If this happens to you, report it. Every time. It’s VAWG, they’re actively trying to make women feel unsafe in public spaces. If decent women are reluctant to take up public spaces, the weirdos get free reign. If it’s in public there may be CCTV, in most cases I imagine their phones and what they are saying / viewing will be worth a look too.

You had every right to be angry, @Bannedontherun!

Makes me think of the Verve video……

I have to admit i was at an alternative festival gig many moons ago where a man kept stamping on me.

I had a bloody good right hook, and punched him hard in his face. He backed of pretty rapidly.

I don’t think it as new thing, it has just been noticed

I was an angry young woman in my defence

"Hughes gives the example of ‘mewing’, an exercise which is alleged to improve the jawline (something that men in toxic spaces see as desirable because it is seen as masculine; conversely, some believe the reason women aren’t interested in them is because of a weak jawline)."

No, dahling. The reason women won't be interested in you, is simple - you are a c##t.

There’s a good chance that I’d end up hurt or killed if this happened to me because I’d end up pushing back. I don’t know what it is in me, but I don’t think I’d be able to just walk away. So I’d probably genuinely get done in by the guy.

They just hate everyone who gets in their way.

I've had this happen to me twice. Being aggressively shoulder charged. Once, a few years ago, by a middle aged man who seemed to take issue with me being in his way whilst I was out with my family for a stroll around a local scenic spot; and then again a couple of years ago by a young, over-weight man in his twenties as we both tried to negotiate a restricted pavement area in the city centre. It really did feel like an assault on both occasions and left me feeling upset and angry.

I was pushed over in the street, but it happened about 5 years ago; I am now retired.
I knew it was deliberate, but assumed it was because I am an 'older' woman.
This happened in a busy London street (Holborn), and I was sort of barged as he went past. I fell onto someone and into a costamonger stall. The man had walked on, but as I was trying to pick myself up, apologisong (for some obscure reason) to the stall holder, etc , I looked after him and he turned presumably to gloat over the damage. He clearly knew what he had done, and did it deliberately.