-
I'm clearly missing something here. As a straight bloke I quite like ladies. Now, I've always found that a great way to convey this is by not shouting abuse at them or trying to intimidate them. I know, it's just mental isn't it?!!!????
It's so sad to hear about how common this sort of abuse is. I know if I was in a relationship with someone who'd suffered this sort of abuse I'd be incensed.
I wonder if growing up as a young man with female siblings helps build respect? You'd hope so wouldn't you. I have a little sister and I'm terribly protective of her, it's often not conscious but literally instinctive.
+1
i would be so angry if one of those steroid taking, muscle bound, skinhead, psychotic wankers had a pop at my wife. I would certainly contemplate writing them a very stiff letter i can tell you!?!?
-
The blog is great. It's so important that this ridiculous behaviour is recorded and reflected on.
@VanUden - personaly I don't think that having sisters makes a difference. I don't, and don't act like an idiot, at least in the abusive to women sense.
How many of these men do you think read the Sun or the Daily Star? A daily dose that is bound to fuck up your perception of how to behave around women. Not wanting to make excuses for them though.
-
perhaps it's just me and my distance from european civilization with its attendant norms and values, but you all seem to be mighty sensitive over perceived slights, sexual or otherwise. what's wrong with a* 'who gives a fcuk what you yell?'* attitude?
sure, someone endangers your life by trying to mow you down and you have every right to get pissed. but commenting on your tits or package or clothing? c'mon. grow a pair.
the whole 'respect me' attitude in the uk sucks. respect you for what? for being who or what you are? if i think you're fat i'll call you fat. if you think me an asshole for doing so feel free to let me know. if i bothers me i'll try to change, and if it doesn't well, i guess i'm happy that way.
stress about stuff that matters. words will never kill you. 2 tons of metal at 60 kph will.
-
perhaps it's just me and my distance from european civilization with its attendant norms and values, but you all seem to be mighty sensitive over perceived slights, sexual or otherwise. what's wrong with a* 'who gives a fcuk what you yell?'* attitude?
sure, someone endangers your life by trying to mow you down and you have every right to get pissed. but commenting on your tits or package or clothing? c'mon. grow a pair.
the whole 'respect me' attitude in the uk sucks. respect you for what? for being who or what you are? if i think you're fat i'll call you fat. if you think me an asshole for doing so feel free to let me know. if i bothers me i'll try to change, and if it doesn't well, i guess i'm happy that way.
stress about stuff that matters. words will never kill you. 2 tons of metal at 60 kph will.
Sticks and stones may break my bones, but only words can hurt me.
Cud, 1994. -
perhaps it's just me and my distance from european civilization with its attendant norms and values, but you all seem to be mighty sensitive over perceived slights, sexual or otherwise. what's wrong with a* 'who gives a fcuk what you yell?'* attitude?
It's very easy for the men to says that when we don't get those kind of abuse that women get.
-
perhaps it's just me and my distance from european civilization with its attendant norms and values, but you all seem to be mighty sensitive over perceived slights, sexual or otherwise. what's wrong with a* 'who gives a fcuk what you yell?'* attitude?
sure, someone endangers your life by trying to mow you down and you have every right to get pissed. but commenting on your tits or package or clothing? c'mon. grow a pair.
the whole 'respect me' attitude in the uk sucks. respect you for what? for being who or what you are? if i think you're fat i'll call you fat. if you think me an asshole for doing so feel free to let me know. if i bothers me i'll try to change, and if it doesn't well, i guess i'm happy that way.
stress about stuff that matters. words will never kill you. 2 tons of metal at 60 kph will.
i've been directed here by your colleagues on glasgow forum. they don't like me one bit.
i've been thrown off two forums now - glasgow fgss and singletrack - allegedly for trolling
And you wonder why?
I've already had reported posts about you and you've been here less than 24 hours.
This is as blunt and simple as it gets: If you are just here to stir up shit, you will be banned from here too.
Your post is so dumb it's almost impossible to know where to start in trying to show you how dumb it is. I'm literally dumbstruck by how dumb it is.
-
^ Agreed.
-
I am married with three daughters (18, 19, 22) my wife and youngest daughter run marathons for a hobby, the other two 1/2 marathoons, fun runs and the like. They run 4/5 times a week. Additionally my youngest is a keen cyclist, commuting with me to 6th form, and now work.
They are all constantly bombarded with comments ranging from the fairly witty to the downright insulting/abusive. It has reached the point where they are unwilling to run alone.
I have even been cycling with my youngest when she has been subject to "street harrassment".
All in all it is not clever, or funny. It can lead to people becoming frightened to follow their interests.
101 wankers is totally believable from my experience, and just lists the unacceptable and threatening behaviour that is seen, by some, as clever. -
Whose the wanker here?
[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ghs3Cr2gWTQ&feature=player_embedded"]YouTube-
Old Man Gets Hit By A Bike(Raw Video)[/ame] -
Some depressing reactions on this thread, especially early on before people felt which direction the wind was blowing in and shifted accordingly.
If anyone doubts the extent of this sort of reprehensible crap, read the comments here: http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2010/aug/20/street-harassment#start-of-comments
Anecdotally at least, it's vastly common. And in my experience, being on a bike only increases it. Probably because one is more vulnerable on a bike, and therefore easier game; perhaps because of the unhappy confluence between anti-cyclist feeling and the misogyny documented here; perhaps because you are visibly engaged in physical activity and that seems to invite the gaze even more.
-
Whose the wanker here?
Who is the wanker here? The cyclist - Not only was he riding like a dick, but he should have been able to anticipate the man stepping out and only looking in the direction of traffic flow, as it's one way road - the fact that he wasn't using the 'crosswalk' is inconsequential, as even if it had been on one the cyclist would most likely still have hit him
-
Some depressing reactions on this thread, especially early on before people felt which direction the wind was blowing in and shifted accordingly.
If anyone doubts the extent of this sort of reprehensible crap, read the comments here: http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2010/aug/20/street-harassment#start-of-comments
Anecdotally at least, it's vastly common. And in my experience, being on a bike only increases it. Probably because one is more vulnerable on a bike, and therefore easier game; perhaps because of the unhappy confluence between anti-cyclist feeling and the misogyny documented here; perhaps because you are visibly engaged in physical activity and that seems to invite the gaze even more.
It makes me absolutely furious, not least because, by its very nature, it won't happen when I'm with my girlfriend but when she's on her own.
Although having said that, I was with my girlfriend in Stratford station several years ago and one young kid in a group grabbed her crotch as they went past on the steps. I didn't see it happen and my girlfriend only told me it had happened later on. I asked why she didn't say anything when it happened and she said she was just so shocked she was dumbstruck. I hate violence but in honesty I would have absolutely belted the kid if I'd known.
-
Who is the wanker here? The cyclist - Not only was he riding like a dick, but he should have been able to anticipate the man stepping out and only looking in the direction of traffic flow, as it's one way road - the fact that he wasn't using the 'crosswalk' is inconsequential, as even if it had been on one the cyclist would most likely still have hit him
Yup, agreed.
-
I hate violence but in honesty I would have absolutely belted the kid if I'd known.
If it were a 6' rugby player built like a brick shit house would you have belted him?
Not that I disagree with what you're saying, but it's kinda easy to turn around and belt a kid, but that perhaps isn't the right reaction.
thebaldbuzzard
STE5
ro_v1.2
Markyboy
deleted
andy.w
edscoble
Velocio
DFP
Woodie
cookiesdonniedarko
Wannabe
markrjohnson
TheButchersDog
plurabelle
Kill
Regal-
Post a reply
About
101 wankers
Posted by
I'm clearly missing something here. As a straight bloke I quite like ladies. Now, I've always found that a great way to convey this is by not shouting abuse at them or trying to intimidate them. I know, it's just mental isn't it?!!!????
It's so sad to hear about how common this sort of abuse is. I know if I was in a relationship with someone who'd suffered this sort of abuse I'd be incensed.
I wonder if growing up as a young man with female siblings helps build respect? You'd hope so wouldn't you. I have a little sister and I'm terribly protective of her, it's often not conscious but literally instinctive.