Men taking photos of women eating on the tube

[JaneinReading]

www.standard.co.uk/news/london/end-humiliating-game-of-taking-photos-of-women-eating-on-the-tube-9243220.html

I am not sure it is lawful if it is of one woman where she has a reasonable expectation of privacy.

I thought there was a law against taking and publishing a persons image without consent.

Also c'mon taking a picture of a women putting something in her mouth, wouldnt be suprised this is some fetish.

Dad77, no law as if there were there would be no paparazzi.

The guy who runs the group saying it's not gendered when he's called the group "Women who eat on the Tube" is clearly several sandwiches short of a picnic...

The newspapers got this story from here, there was a thread in AIBU.

Whilst I don't agree with it, I've been on the page and the people seem okay. They go mad at people who make sexist, lude or inappropriate comments. They don't like swearing. Both men and women take part.

That's really creepy :( I already feel self conscious about eating in public, if it's not at a cafe or somewhere like that.

It wouldn't seem so bad if it was "People who eat on the tube" and there were an equal number of men and women photographed. Still creepy but less so. But it's more "Haha, women, eating! Hilarious!"

FFS people have to eat!

Didn't realise there was another thread on here on it.
You can tkae pictures in public unless there is a reasonable expectation of privacy (JK Rowling won a case when her child was photographed in the street in his buggy which was a surprising result in my view). You might be able to argue that when you're eating you've a reasonable expectation of privacy or may be not. Could go either way.

Well that's just fucking weird and creepy. A if women don't have enough to contend with already when they're out and about.

I don't like it at all. Women are made a spectacle of for various things all the time, it's unfair & unnecessary. I am acutely conscious of most things I do in public, it's because of this kind of shit. It's a fetish and it shouldn't be allowed.

“the gender aspect is a random coincidence.”

Errr .. so what are we saying, someone wanted to make a new Facebook group, used a random word generator to create the topic and: voila. Women Who Eat on Tubes.

Nobody should eat on the tube, especially greasy smelly food. It's disgusting sitting next to someone slurping their way through a burger. So name and shame I say!

Just the women though, obviously. Men should be allowed to do what they like, free of censure.

How bizarre, and weird!

If they'd started a People Who Eat One The Tube page then that would be odd enough but specifically women, just weird.

No, apparently it wasnt at all creepy to take secret photos of men with their legs apart.

If women were as likely as men to sit with their knees so far apart that they took up two passengers' worth of space I'd agree with you.

How bizarre. I'm always paranoid people are looking at me and judging...turns out they probably are It's not paranoia if they really are out to get you.

As an aside, I read the link and the article seemed quite balanced, even supportive, gently outraged then there was an article to the side about female slebs inviting you to judge who's dressed like a 'dog's dinner'.

Head. Wall. Bang.

Fair enough Em, I must have seen different pictures.

It won't stop there though, will it? Next it will be people (that happen to all be women) that eat lunch in a cafe or at a picnic. Because as everyone knows, women should not eat full stop.

If I got hold of that guy I would ram food down his bloody throat until he chocked, then photographed it, pasted it on the web and would say, "Disgusting, he can't even eat food properly".

It certanily has a feel of the religious police in Saudi, Iran and under the Taliban where men are out there watching women to tell them off if their headscarf has slipped a little bit back, if a piece of hair is showing and if their ankle can be seen.

It certainly has a feel of the religious police in Saudi, Iran and under the Taliban where men are out there watching women to tell them off if their headscarf has slipped a little bit back, if a piece of hair is showing and if their ankle can be seen.

No it bloody well doesn't! How can you equate the state sponsored repression of a nation's entire female population with the idiotic and nasty antics of a few blokes on the tube.

Comparing it to the religious police in SA is distorting, disproportional and, in my view, disrespectful to the real struggle many women have on a day to day basis.

In fairness OP did say has a feel of not 'is the same as', which I read as suggesting this is the thin end of a wedge where a group comments on women's normal human behaviour (eating) in a way that they do not do to men. Give 'em an inch and they'll take a mile sort of thing.

To me (daily tube commuter) it is an odd thing to point out, let alone take a picture of - lots of people eat on the tube amongst other activities. London seems to move at a different pace to everywhere else I've lived and so normal activities (eating, getting ready, watching TV, sleeping etc) happen at unusual times and in some cases spill over into tube-time. Because of that I suspect fetishism here rather than bullying.

I'd be narked if anyone took a photo of me and stuck it on a Facebook group page for any reason though.

Yes, I meant analogous too, thin end of wedge. It is about men wanting to poke fun at women in a public space and humiliate them.

The reason it feels different from the website of men in red trousers (which is quite funny) is because of the gender issue.

Women in public spaces have problems all over the planet and particularyl on tube trains. They even need women only carriages because of all the bottom pinching etc in I think it was Japan or might have been Egypt.

Agree with complex what a ridiculous comparison.

It is about men wanting to poke fun at women in a public space and humiliate them

No it isn't. Have you even been on the page? The women are more seen in awe, not took the piss out of or humiliated.

It isn't different to men in red trousers though is it, how come that is funny to you but this isn't?