@Pumperthepumper
I find it so frustrating when we're talking about women's issues (i.e. Street harassment) and you have a huge heap of posters saying 'women do it too' 'not all men..' 'My husband is a nice man, he'd never do that' - as if it's in any way relevant to the fact that the vast majority of sexually related, and violence related, crimes are committed by men.
So, it is the problem of ALL MEN. Yes all men. Men are in the position to stop it happening, it's time to take responsibility for mankind and sort it out. Listen to women when we say we don't like it. Teach your sons to respect women. Stop the groping and the lewd conversation about your coworkers, pull your friends up for being disrespectful about women (even if the women can't hear him). Stop shutting down conversations with NAM, stop minimising by saying 'women do it too'.
This ^
Absolutely brilliant post!
As for the (few) women who say they have never ever been groped or hit on or stalked or harassed or letched at or catcalled or wolf whistled at ...... no matter how hard I try, I am really struggling to believe this. All I can think of is that these women must never go out, and must have never had a man in their house, and must have never met a man.
I know that sounds 'daft,' and far fetched, but so does a woman saying she has never ever ever experienced even the slightest bit of harassment or letching from any man - ever..
@whiskyowl
Because my whole life, I've had harassment, only a near-daily basis when I was younger. Men yelling things from cars. Men wolf-whistling. Men telling me they would buy something from me if I came to their house to do it (telesales job as a teen). Men commenting on my boobs, my butt, my legs. Photographers groping me as a pretence of positioning my body.
Men grinding against me on the tube. Men staring uncomfortably when I walked across a room. Men asking me to sit on their lap while they explain something (a teacher), or pushing me against a wall and shoving their hands up my shirt (about 10 boys in my class). Men telling me they were imagining me at a frat party (senior professor, I was a PhD student). Men touching me inappropriately, without my consent (and one even pulled my skirt up in front of a room so I was standing there in my knickers). Men telling me that they can sort my career if I have "dinner" with them. Men rating me and all the other women in the office out of 10. Men commenting on my weight, my figure, my choice of clothes. A man raping me. And those are just the few that occurred to me in the last 5 minutes. There's more, a whole load more there.
This also. ^
Although there are some women who would not have had to tolerate ALL you have had to tolerate, the vast majority, would have suffered at least some of this.