Is wolf-whistling a sex crime?

Reported.

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However anyone wants to spell it, I too think enuf/enough.

Insinuations that members lie or slander or set out to insult are out of order but as my Dad used to say of what he considered unworthy comments
Just " treat that with the contempt it deserves".

I think 'enuf' is some sort of 'yoof-spell'.

Some of it may be about the greater physical strength of men, so that their actions can be interpreted as a threat in the way that similar actions are not. Just a thought.

Did you mean 'technique' btw?

Quoting amarmai

"Another tecnic used by several GNers is to type the slander or insult or lie and follow it up by adding -of course i am not saying this about you/who ever they named."

Nice. Liars now are we?

enough

Interesting video from The Factual Feminist about street harassment. Some good points about what, other than cat-calling or wolf-whistling and such like, can be regarded as street harassment too.

Yes, quite!

The Poldark thread was Culture, as are the posts about Stratford.

But I havent seen it mentioned on many other threads. Just this one. Just saying.
It is not on the Poldark one. It is not on various tv ones as far as I can remember. Nothing. Which hardly makes it equal.

I suppose it comes back to being jokey. Which I dont have a problem with.

Though, sadly, women are much more likely on balance to be objectified/humiliated/subjugated than men.

soontobe You obviously haven't read the whole of this thread. I, and several others, find the objectification/humiliation/subjugation of men equally as offensive as the objectification/humiliation/subjugation of women.

I understand.

I wasn't having a go at soon - and she knows I wasn't, I'm sure.
Just that I hope that soon and nelliemoser did not take a jokey riposte seriously, and I do realise they were getting back to a more serious conversation.
soon and nelliemoser

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I think you are correct, Soon , re phrasing insults and slander so as to get away with it e.g. bellanonna's nasty personal attack on G2 is allowed to remain apparently because she uses the phrase 'sounds like' . It takes a special kind of 'brain' and a lifetime of practice to get good enuf at this to escape being deleted. Another tecnic used by several GNers is to type the slander or insult or lie and follow it up by adding -of course i am not saying this about you/who ever they named.

It was all a joke
You know, where you are supposed to or even lol?

Lost in Translation.

Feminists who appear to object to women objectification dont appear to object to men objectification. Or at least, dont vocalise it. So it cant really be the objectification itself that upsets them, can it?
Is it the power that men have over women that bothers them?
Else it would have to be double standards and I dont think that it is that.

Personally, I dont get hot and bothered by men that I am not married to. I am a bit like Nelliemoser I think. I am interested in what personality they have.
My husband also got grillings chats too, Nelliemoser!

Haste ye back to the cupboard whence you came Mistress Quartz

It's his acting skills that attract me
(And his lovely smile)
I haven't seen his body - does he flaunt it?
I may like to bother with him but he probably wouldn't bother with me!

Oh dear! All I think of when I look at a man is not his his body, but his facial expression to try and get an idea of his personality.

Give me a couple of hours grilling him chatting with him before I can get a clue whether he would be worth bothering with. I would think any man who goes flaunting his body would be likely to make me think he is far too vain and full of his own importance.

I would be looking for someone with a good brain, but must have a sense of humour which is like mine. He would need good social skills.
I have now lived too long with someone who takes every remark I make as an opportunity for a serious discussion and wants to do this with any silly observation or throwaway line I am prone to making.

All the good ones are usually taken.

Personally I find this objectification of men on the basis of their looks entirely inappropriate.

I concur

I agree!
Very dishy