| Comment | They were saying that it wouldn't have been tolerated in town 10-20 years ago. Definition of rose coloured glasses, frankly. It's "tolerated" now, it was "tolerated" then, it was certainly going to be "tolerated" more than 20 years ago.
It's a total misunderstanding of what it's like being a woman in the city. Men are full of the "make a scene!" advice with no regard for just how fucking scary this can be. I wish I'd made a scene every time a man like the one in the video has approached me. It's difficult to do because how do I know how this guy will react? Do I know if anyone around us will actually do anything? Because I've made a scene and gotten fuck all reaction. I got straight up flashed by a guy in Central (9 years ago now - I was not long turned 18) and I started shouting and running away and what happened? The guy followed me with his dick out, laughing, and people gave him a fucking wide berth. He bolted when I started running up the escalators shouting for the BTP.
Everyone wants to believe they'd intervene if they saw anything like this happening, but my experience is that they mostly don't. |
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