Anti-Street Harassment UK- a new feminist group.

In reality though, it rarely depends on what you're wearing, you just need to be recognised as a woman.

It's absolutely disgusting and sickens me how men still continually objectify women in this way.

Your mother is a woman, so is your sister and girlfriend. Would you like them to be treated this degrading way by men? Unwarranted harassment is completely unacceptable from anyone, regardless of gender but it's particularly a problem with males from lower socio-economic backgrounds. Women ought to be able to walk down the street without feeling intimidated or sexually threatened in 21st century Britain.

why the same sex that isn't an identical comparison....

Women are smaller weaker and much slimmer on average than men. the average girl is what, 5'4?

Would you feel scared of someone like that in a cab or alley? Or would you feel more threatened by a 6'4 guy of 220lbs? the threat of assault and fear should to be proportionate

i've had numerous occassions when girls have literally shouted at me from within a car or across the street. once i had a a group of girls follow me in my car, hooting their horn for me to pull over. girls can get aggressive too. especially when there's a pack of them.

it's a turn off. subtlety works wonders.

Shouting suggestive remarks at a woman in the street should be an arrestable offence (and prison should be an option for repeat offenders), and the woman should be able to sue for compensation. It's humiliating and objectifies women - unacceptable.

I have no idea why some in this thread are talking about men 'looking' at women... this is about harassment, not just looking. And if being shouted at in the street makes a lot of women uncomfortable (which it does, me included), then it's unacceptable.
Whether you think women are being oversensitive or shouldn't be offended by it or whatever, is entirely irrelevant because the fact is, we are made uncomfortable by it.

What I don't understand is- what's the point? Do you think shouting 'nice arse, love' at a random stranger has ever got her into bed?

I dont understand all this feminism thing nowadays, Women get away with sexism on TV way too much and no one says anything, something is said on sky about women and 1 person is sacked and another resigns.

now i was watching a programme and a women TV chef remarked "even a man could do this", i thought to myself if jamie oliver said that he would not get work for years and would be pretty much dropped form channel 4, why do women get away with it, Feminists preach no sexism but are sexist themselves towards men, conflicting views?

This thread has reasserted my hate for feminists.

Judging by your thread on enforcing a 50% women quota in parliament I personally find your opinions on anything utterly worthless.

I think it's great that this group is starting up. I was talking with my flatmates (two other girls) to our friend (a guy) who had no idea that girls felt like this. It happens so often to young women that it's just kind of taken for granted now, even though every time it happens it still feels horrible. And of course this isn't just men looking, it's the comments and groping that go with it. I want to be able to walk down the street without having to worry about this but to be honest you can only choose to ignore it. It is intimidating when you are walking down the street on your own and a group of guys are walking towards you and you get this s*** from them. Like it says in the article - they are trying to assert their masculinity at the expense of someone else and it is completely and totally disrespectful. Yes, women do it to men too but not nearly as much and it is not as intimidating as when it comes from a men. Come on guys, you know it's not really a great idea for a woman to walk around on her own at night and yet there are still guys saying they don't understand? I have actually been scared of men behaving like this and have been told by guy friends not to walk alone at night - it's because of harassment and it's about time we tried to stop it.

This pretty much proves how women had the right idea in creating this group.

Men are brought up in our culture to believe they have the right to watch, judge, and loudly comment upon the body of any woman who trespasses into public space. Your response is immediately to defend the men who turn to harassment instead of encouraging them to look at their own behaviour critically?

Looking?: Fine.

Continuous staring, shouting, touching?: Not Acceptable.

Come on guys, this isn't rocket science. Just human decency.