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Re: Sarah Everard Vigil and the Met Police
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Originally Posted by jfman
It's worse than you portray.
She's probably right because at some point they redefined harassment to include almost any unwanted attention.
I've never once met anyone in a pub or nightclub whose opening line was "I'm thinking of chatting you up". So as soon as that has commenced and not reciprocated it's unwanted attention. Whether you take the hint after 30 seconds or 30 minutes it's unwanted.
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Or there’s this example from Adrian Chiles
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/143507...just-standard/
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Not long ago, when my older daughter was still in school uniform, we were in the car with the radio on. There was a discussion about the groping of women on public transport. “Nothing like that’s happened to you, has it?” I asked. “Course, yeah,” she said with a shrug. “That’s just standard.”
I couldn’t believe what I was hearing. It turned out that her and her mates, on the Tube going to and from school, were regularly harassed.
Blokes staring, sitting or standing too close, even rubbing themselves up against them or groping them. All such behaviours were considered pretty standard by a group of girls yet to sit their GCSEs. Incredible.
I am no less incredulous this week to hear calls for kerb crawling of schoolgirls to be made illegal.
You what? So it’s not illegal as it stands? Apparently not. Kerb crawling is only an offence if it’s done with the intent of paying for sex.
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