Why is Andrew's street harassment treated more seriously than women’s?

[SadTimesInFife]

Andrew M-W was harassed when out walking his dogs:
'Police said he [edit: the harasser] has been charged with two counts of using threatening, abusive or insulting words or behaviour to harass someone or cause alarm or distress and failing to provide a specimen of blood in custody.'

Women live with this level of abuse on a daily basis and yet...how many of those men are arrested let alone charged?

Privilege

Money.

He has it, his family has it.

It is easier to protect the one rather than the many. It is also cheaper (money again).

Princes (or men) don't lie. Women lie all the time, especially about men stalking them (until the police realise they weren't lying because they've ended up dead/hospital).

Women are non-men so not worth thinking about.

And finally. Press like clickbait so will keep posting about Andrew which will show how useless the police, cps, court system really are so it makes the police, cps, court system actually do their fucking jobs for once. Unfortunately it is literally the once.

I've probably missed a few.

Women live with this level of abuse on a daily basis

I can't say I've had balaclava clad men waiting outside my house before. Certainly not on a daily basis.

Interestingly, I once had a balaclava clad man turn up at my flat, where I lived by myself. He rang the doorbell and I looked through the spy hole and I got a massive shock! Fortunately my door was extremely solid so I wasn’t worried it wild be kicked in, but… if I didn’t have a spy hole and had a less solid front door, outcomes might have been different ( as it was, I simply didn’t open the door, and despite a few rings/ hanging around, the guy eventually left, when they heard a noise from a neighbour .)

i went to report it to the Police and they couldn’t have been less interested.

When i was stalked ( separate occasion years before) it didn’t occur to me to report it to the Police. Ditto for the multiple times I was flashed at.

so whilst my experience was certainly not a daily occurance, I did experience indifference by the police the time it had the hallmarks of being worse than usual.