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Sexual comment at soft play area - is this harassment?

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GemmaJ95 · 11/04/2025 10:45

Would you consider this harassment/offensive? At soft play with my young DS yesterday, I was helping him navigate an area so was more or less on all fours in an unflattering position. I sensed someone had been waiting behind me for a short while, so once he was through I got up and said sorry a bit flustered.

It was a man with his (I assume) daughter and he just said to me ‘ don’t worry, I could admire that view all day ‘, I awkwardly moved away.

I have been thinking about it since and am kicking myself for not saying something!

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jellyfishperiwinkle · 11/04/2025 13:38

Ugh, what a creep.

PassingStranger · 11/04/2025 13:40

AquaPeer · 11/04/2025 11:27

Yes 100% creep. I don’t think that people who work in a soft play centre would be able to do anything but I would’ve told him to F off and called him a perv

Wonderful not in front of children.

There are better ways.

AquaPeer · 11/04/2025 15:06

PassingStranger · 11/04/2025 13:40

Wonderful not in front of children.

There are better ways.

God forbid a victim of sexual harassment doesn’t behave in a way you find acceptable

MattCauthon · 11/04/2025 15:14

PassingStranger · 11/04/2025 13:40

Wonderful not in front of children.

There are better ways.

I hope my children will see me modelling appropriate behaviour when I am being harassed or the recipient of inappropriate comments from random strangers. I'd have no issue telling a man in this situation he's being a dick. And i'd be totally fine with my children seeing that.

Sometimeswinning · 11/04/2025 18:30

AquaPeer · 11/04/2025 15:06

God forbid a victim of sexual harassment doesn’t behave in a way you find acceptable

Good god! Someone was a bit creepy. Victim 😂🙄

DonnaBanana · 11/04/2025 18:33

Maybe he’s a single dad looking for love, they are in short supply sadly

Dillydollydingdong · 11/04/2025 18:34

Oh FFS. It was just a light hearted comment, and meant to be a compliment. If the man had meant to be offensive he could have said a lot worse than that!

LegoHouse274 · 11/04/2025 18:35

DonnaBanana · 11/04/2025 18:33

Maybe he’s a single dad looking for love, they are in short supply sadly

Definitely not "sadly" if "they" think this is acceptable behaviour...

NormasArse · 11/04/2025 18:37

StartAnew · 11/04/2025 11:41

Maybe have an answer ready for the next time something like that happens.
'The 1970s would like their creepy comment back,' maybe. You'll think of something.

‘I’d rather you didn’t, thank you.’ Delivered with a poker face.

StartAnew · 11/04/2025 18:40

Dillydollydingdong · 11/04/2025 18:34

Oh FFS. It was just a light hearted comment, and meant to be a compliment. If the man had meant to be offensive he could have said a lot worse than that!

Are you perhaps a man?

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