To tell you all what Alan Titchmarch thinks of 12-15 year old girls who dress 'inappropriately'

[RiffyWammal]

I'm so angry. On his show today in a discussion about sexual harassment and sexism he said something really vile. I will transcribe what he said exactly;

"A lot of 12, 13, 14, 15 year old girls are now walking down the street barely covered. I see crop tops on girls of 12 and skirts up here, in a way now I hate to say that thing which men say 'they are asking for it' but it strikes me that if a girl of 14 walks past a building site in a crop top and short skirt she's probably going to get whistled at and worse."

I'm disgusted as was Laura Bates from Everyday Sexism who stayed remarkably controlled as she countered this. The victim blaming, the implication that girls should jolly well cover up if they don't want to be harrassed, the attitude of 'how else do we expect men to react if they see a girl's legs and belly'? I could hardly believe my ears. The audience applauded him FFS

I think I am going to make a complaint to ITV. I just wanted to bring it to the attention of anyone else who might wish to do the same.

limited I understand now and yes I agree!

Maybe the poor shortsighted builders shouldn't shout lewd remarks at anyone.

Oooh he knew he'd fucked up there didn't he and went all alan partridge

Vile vile piece him and the nick one.

Who the actual FUCK do these middle aged men think they are to sit there and TELL women how they SHOULD react to sexist shite? Outrageous.

Everyday sexism woman = brilliant.

limited that made me laugh too

seven literally cannot bring myself to watch. Scott Mills once played a clip of him reading a steamy bit from one of his books and i cried in the shower afterwards.

LR, I got deleted upthread for giving strong opinions

that is fine

but I agree with you and hope you don't get deleted

morethan you just went waaaaaaay down in my estimation...what the hell is wrong with you ?

if they are wearing make up how the hell are builders supposed to know how old they are from a distance.

potato, at what age then does it become appropriate, in your opinion, for builders (and we've established on this thread that it is by no means just builders who leer at women) to shout and letch?

Could we please have Alan Titchmarsh on for a web chat?

heh

Being in the pub!ic eye as Alan Titchmarsh is, he knows that he is being outrageous saying those things. Intelligent people in this day and age know that the guilt of the predictor stays purely with him and stays with him.

My God, are people (women, no less!) still agreeing/validatin Titmarsh's vile rantings?

How can anyone have missed the many (many, many) experiences shared on this thread about being sexually harassed WHILE IN SCHOOL UNIFORM?

morethanpotatoprints - your attitude stinks. You are victim blaming. Doubt you'll come back to this thread though - your comments give the impression you read the OP and nothing more. If you had read the thread you'd see how utterly repellant your remarks are - you are blaming SCHOOLGIRLS for the fact that grown men are unable to control themselves and the garbage that comes out of their mouths.

" Intelligent people in this day and age know that the guilt of the predictor stays purely with him and stays with him."

What does this mean please?

hiskwarrior or rather, they are well able to control themselves, they are choosing to behave as they do, because they want to, they see no reason not to.

did "predictor" get auto corrected from "perpetrator" ?

predator?

Sorry, Seven - that's obviously what I meant to say but my fingers got away with the sentence before it made sense .

lol autocorrect grief

alan could do with it on his mouth

at least now everyone knows what he's like

I for one won't be watching anything with him in future.

Titchmarsh is a cock....smarmy and very lucky.....yuck

AF, I was actually deleted before, for a post that was quite similar in sentiment to my post above. I hope I have written this newer post in a more acceptable way to whomever decides these things on balance.

at least now everyone knows what he's like

Scary that so many agree with him too

I do wonder about the messages some women pass on to their DDs - 'dress appropriately or anything that comes your way is your fault and you asked for it.

Indeed, Whisk.

And as for the applauding audience - they are are the builder's yard of chat shows.

Could we please have Alan Titchmarsh on for a web chat?

Oh yes please.

But can we delete this thread because I don't want to give the creepy little fucker a heads up.

creepy little fucker

Sums him up beautifully

Stealth is good.