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AIBU?

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thinking Linda Barker is a bit of a knob end?

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Eyelasher · 27/10/2011 10:56

in the ( gasp) daily mail
"Linda, who is married with a 19-year-old daughter, Jess, says she still gets wolf whistles from men on building sites ? and loves it."

Funny how so many women find jeering and cat calling by men patronising nad sometimes even scary

OP posts:

noddyholder · 27/10/2011 13:58

I work in house renovation and have a good relationship with all teh builders and in the merchants etc but still feel sick to the pit of my stomach approaching a group of men. Have you ever seen women do this? And in what form and was it acceptable?

GetOrfMo1Land · 27/10/2011 13:59

Yes, it probably is worral. I wouldn't wear any of those ill-fitting dresses.

right back atcha

catgirl1976 · 27/10/2011 13:59

Noddy if you really feel sick to the pit of your stomach when approaching a group of men, then maybe it is not just Linda Baker who needs the counselling you suggested. I am honestly do not mean that in an unkind way, but that is not a normal or healthy way to feel.

Rindercella · 27/10/2011 13:59

Is George Clooney really 50?!

I still would...

worraliberty · 27/10/2011 14:01

And if you loathe the term 'cougar' it's funny how you decided to use it isn't it?

Seriously, your posts drip passive aggression all through this thread.

It's a shame such attractive 50+ Ladies can't simply be appreciated without all the stealth bitching about style etc.

noddyholder · 27/10/2011 14:02

Now who is insulting another woman? I know a lot of people who feel like this and I am not referring to any group of men just building sites! I renovate property for a living so would be in trouble if I didn't get on with men but being cat called in public is humiliating imo.

noddyholder · 27/10/2011 14:04

What is a normal healthy way to feel when being whistled at by a group of men in public then? I am interested to know it may help me

GetOrfMo1Land · 27/10/2011 14:05

I used the term cougar to reflect that the daily mail uses it a lot, so it is relevant in this case (as it is a daily mail article). They love the term - I don't. Is that difficult to understand? No.

You seem to want to rip my posts to pieces to analyse what I have said.

Passive aggression? Do you know the meaning of the word? Iam not passive anything, I am being actively critical - if anyone is daft enough to appear in a daily mail article they are fair game to me. If this article appeared in (say) Grazia or the Times of something, they would have probably been styled to look differently, and the article may actually have had some substance.

GetOrfMo1Land · 27/10/2011 14:06

Actually it wouldn't have had any bloody sunstance inGrazia, I take that back.

squeakyfreakytoy · 27/10/2011 14:07

Noddy, I was thinking along the same lines as CatGirl. I was trying to think how to word my post without it sounding bad, but to feel sick to your stomach just because you are approaching a group of men is not how anyone should feel. :(

noddyholder · 27/10/2011 14:07

No but teh clothes would have been better!

squeakyfreakytoy · 27/10/2011 14:08

Ahhhhhh we are getting the Daily Mail snobbery now

GetOrfMo1Land · 27/10/2011 14:09

It was only a matter of time.

SugarSkyHigh · 27/10/2011 14:10

I used to get wolf whistled etc all the time - it is now such a relief that it no longer happens. I don't have to tense up and galvanise myself before walking past scaffolding. I do remember one occasion though when I fought back - some lump of lard builder yelled something down at me as I passed, and I shouted up at him, YOU ARE FAT!! He was visibly deflated.

worraliberty · 27/10/2011 14:11

You're being very passive aggressive by pretending it's all about the 'style'...you've basically ripped LB to shreds and assumed that 'being styled like a Cougar' is something she agrees to because she doesn't know her own mind

But carry on, it sounds as though this is quite cathartic for you to get your opinions off your chest on these attractive well groomed ladies....I'll just hide the thread.

I hope when I'm their age, I look half as good.

noddyholder · 27/10/2011 14:11

I am loving all the concern! But you are barking up the wrong tree and your sad face emoticon doesn't quite cover the patronising tone. I am talking about groups of builders here, calling after you in the street when there are other people around. I find it awful and demeaning. I am no wallflower and work with men en masse every day and have a great relationship with them and never give them a second thought. I am generally their boss as well so if I was a timid thing life would be tough! I am that there are those who feel flattered by a wolf whistle.

squeakyfreakytoy · 27/10/2011 14:11

I had to have a quick look at the latest fashion from Boden...

the frocky horror show!

Give me Per Una and Phase 8 any day.

MonstrouslyNarkyPuffin · 27/10/2011 14:21

Who shops at Boden????

Per Una is tragic. There is no one it looks good on.

catgirl1976 · 27/10/2011 14:21

Sorry noddy - you didn't say that in your original post.

You just said that you felt sick to your stomach when approaching a group of men. You didn't specify a group of men who were shouting abuse. Just any group of men.

You have now clarified that you didn't mean that, but you would have to agree that if that was how you felt it would not be healthy and the concern would have been justifiable.

GetOrfMo1Land · 27/10/2011 14:21

Oh bollocks to it worral I don't want to row about it - if I have been a spiteful bugger I didn't mean for it to come across that way (well actually I did about the DFS sofas and fake yorkshre accent but still).

noddyholder · 27/10/2011 14:25

In my original original post @ 1.30 I did! Men en masse are my workmates day in day out but they don't behave like that thank god!

worraliberty · 27/10/2011 14:42

Sorry GetOrf it wasn't personal but looking back, I did have quite a go didn't I?

GetOrfMo1Land · 27/10/2011 14:51

I was a stroppy sod anyway worral, probably deserved it . No hard feelings. Never thought I would have a row about Linda Barker (told you she was dodgy)

squeakyfreakytoy · 27/10/2011 14:53

Nah sod it... I like it! The ripped and tatty effect is what most of my clothes end up like anyway.... so I may as well carry on paying good money to maintain that look!

RoxyRobin · 27/10/2011 15:04

I have just remembered the 'Willy, willy, willy' thread

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