Misogyny hate crime report

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BBC link via twitter here

Some quotes:

The research showed the policy had been misinterpreted and "trivialised" in media reports, which had focused on wolf whistling and suggested this was now illegal.

Examples include sexual assault, which had been experienced by 24.7% of survey respondents, indecent exposure (25.9%), groping (46.2%), taking unwanted photographs on mobiles (17.3%), upskirting (6.8%), online abuse (21.7%), being followed home (25.2%), whistling (62.9%), sexually explicit language (54.3%), threatening/aggressive/intimidating behaviour (51.8%), and unwanted sexual advances (48.9%).

I think this is important and shows just a small amount of what women face day to day. This is one police force in England. 1.

The next time you see a self obsessed twat trying to crowd fund taxi fares because they're too scared to get public transport like everyone else has to try not to let your eyes roll back so far they fall out.

Yes, I saw those stats - horrifying. No wonder some are trying the change the definition of "woman" and mess with the figures of hate crime against them:

Supt Mark Khan, the lead on hate crime for North Yorkshire police, said: “It’s about catching behaviour at an early stage. Today’s flasher is tomorrow’s rapist.”

Good quote. Boundaries are important and people who push them are not to be trusted.

from the Guardian article linked above,

Using focus groups and surveys with nearly 700 residents, researchers from Nottingham and Nottingham Trent universities found harassment of women and girls in public spaces remains endemic. Nine out of 10 (93.7%) of respondents had either experienced or witnessed street harassment, with women from black and minority ethic groups feeling doubly vulnerable to attack on the basis of gender and race.

Whistling was the most common form of street harassment, with 63% of respondents either witnessing or experiencing it, Sexually explicit language 54%; Threatening/aggressive/intimidating behaviour 52%;
Unwanted sexual advances 49%

Whistling was the most common form of street harassment, with 63% of respondents either witnessing or experiencing it

I'm sure Paris Lees will see this as a positive. Wonder how they'll spin it from being recognised as a misogynistic hate incident to affirmation of her 'womanhood'?

I predict a scoffing article from someone very soon just so we can all be clear on how trivial misogyny really is.