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Female Harassment

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  • 22-02-2017 12:56am
    #1
    Kintarō Hattori
    Registered Users Posts: 14,993 ✭✭✭✭


    https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=10158219099950123&id=830870122

    Not sure if that video has been seen here before but it made me think. Do the ladies here suffer from similar unwanted attention?

    I'd never have thought they'd get hassle like that but then I always try to treat everyone with respect so just don't think that way.

    Just curious really.


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    Tenzor07
    Registered Users Posts: 8,848 ✭✭✭Tenzor07


    Crazy stuff! Though at one point they do pass what appears to be a Policeman..



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    Parchment
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,203 ✭✭✭Parchment


    Im no supermodel by any stretch but get beeps, shouts etc out windows, shouts from guys walking. Not all guys let it be said - but it does happen. Summer is worse as i wear shorts/tshirts but it happens regardless!

    I hate it but i ignore it as best i can. Sometimes i tell them to f*ck off.


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    Kintarō Hattori
    Registered Users Posts: 14,993 ✭✭✭✭Kintarō Hattori


    Parchment wrote: »
    Im no supermodel by any stretch but get beeps, shouts etc out windows, shouts from guys walking. Not all guys let it be said - but it does happen. Summer is worse as i wear shorts/tshirts but it happens regardless!

    I hate it but i ignore it as best i can. Sometimes i tell them to f*ck off.

    Bloody hell, I'm sorry to hear that. You'd never think it was 2017.


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    fat bloke
    Registered Users Posts: 5,861 ✭✭✭fat bloke


    Parchment wrote: »
    but get beeps, shouts etc out windows, shouts from guys walking.

    I get that all that too but I doubt it's lascivious.


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    Parchment
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,203 ✭✭✭Parchment


    fat bloke wrote: »
    I get that all that too but I doubt it's lascivious.


    I just snorted my tea out my nose!!


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    godtabh
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    I've had comments about junk in my trunk in the past. There are muppets out there. Best just to ignore them. At best they are looking for a rise from you at worst it could end in a confrontation


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    Parchment
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    godtabh wrote: »
    I've had comments about junk in my trunk in the past. There are muppets out there. Best just to ignore them. At best they are looking for a rise from you at worst it could end in a confrontation

    I'm happy to confront someone if the opportunity presents itself. Most guys when confronted by a woman become helpless little boys.


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    godtabh
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    Parchment wrote: »
    I'm happy to confront someone if the opportunity presents itself. Most guys when confronted by a woman become helpless little boys.

    As a man, and particularly due to my size, I'd never confront any one. You dont know how they will react.


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    Parchment
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,203 ✭✭✭Parchment


    godtabh wrote: »
    As a man, and particularly due to my size, I'd never confront any one. You dont know how they will react.

    You dont. But its hard to let some things slide - i like to stand up for myself.


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    tomasrojo
    Registered Users Posts: 11,769 ✭✭✭✭tomasrojo


    Richard Ballantine has a section in his Bicycle Book about women dealing with harassment.

    Unfortunately, hoisting the harassers up by the hind legs and dashing their brains out on the pavement isn't an option.

    (He did regret that, for this case only, the UK didn't allow open carry.)


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    D3V!L
    Registered Users Posts: 2,952 ✭✭✭D3V!L


    I've had women pass comment on me when I was out cycling, never like that though. Thankfully :o


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    Effects
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    I know a woman who had her ass slapped by someone in a passing car!


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    smacl
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 15,754 Mod ✭✭✭✭smacl


    Effects wrote: »
    I know a woman who has her ass slapped by someone in a passing car!

    Not sure its a gender thing though. As a bloke I've had a bottle chucked at me once by a passing car and been whacked with a coat-hanger by a passing car on another occasion leaving a deep welt. Luckily very rare isolated incidents, both of which I reported to the Gardaí. If they were more regular I'd probably pick up a bike camera to give the Gardaí more to follow up on. Not a big fan of direct confrontation as the chances of a good outcome aren't great.

    A woman getting her ass slapped by a passing motorist while cycling is a serious assault and should be treated as such.


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    Eric Cartman
    Registered Users Posts: 26,280 ✭✭✭✭Eric Cartman


    What an awful woman, she deserves to be done for criminal damage. The lads arent great, but words dont deserve damage to their property


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    Effects
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    Eric Cartman wrote: »
    What an awful woman, she deserves to be done for criminal damage. The lads arent great, but words dont deserve damage to their property

    It wasn't just words. They chased her down, drove past their stopping line into the bike zone, swerved their van towards her when she tried to move away from them, one man starts reaching out to touch her. And that's on top of their verbal abuse. They deserved everything they got.

    Hopefully they'll be identified by their reg plate and charged.


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    Tenzor07
    Registered Users Posts: 8,848 ✭✭✭Tenzor07


    Eric Cartman wrote: »
    What an awful woman, she deserves to be done for criminal damage. The lads arent great, but words dont deserve damage to their property

    Are you for real?? :confused: :eek:


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    Eric Cartman
    Registered Users Posts: 26,280 ✭✭✭✭Eric Cartman


    Effects wrote: »
    They chased her down, drove past their stopping line, swerved their van towards her when she tried to move away from them, one man starts reaching out to touch her. And that's on top of their verbal abuse. They deserved everything they got.
    Hopefully they'll be identified by their reg plate and charged.

    She chased them down to destroy a wing mirror , the video only kicks in at that moment, you're operating under the assumption that these lads just randomly accosted her, in reality she could have cut them off or any other number of bad cycling etiquette to provoke that. Nobody knows what happened before the biker started filming it.

    But there is never any circumstance where mean words justify physical violence


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    Tenzor07
    Registered Users Posts: 8,848 ✭✭✭Tenzor07


    Eric Cartman wrote: »
    She chased them down to destroy a wing mirror , the video only kicks in at that moment, you're operating under the assumption that these lads just randomly accosted her, in reality she could have cut them off or any other number of bad cycling etiquette to provoke that. Nobody knows what happened before the biker started filming it.

    Do yourself a favour and watch the entire video!!


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    Wanderer78
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    Tenzor07 wrote:
    Crazy stuff! Though at one point they do pass what appears to be a Policeman..


    Fair play to her, what a prick


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    Eric Cartman
    Registered Users Posts: 26,280 ✭✭✭✭Eric Cartman


    Tenzor07 wrote: »
    Do yourself a favour and watch the entire video!!

    The first thing I see in that video is her trying to damage the left wing mirror of the van and the lad responding with cheeky comments


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    Andy Magic
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    I've had all sorts of fruit flung at me, usually from vans.


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    Eric Cartman
    Registered Users Posts: 26,280 ✭✭✭✭Eric Cartman


    Andy Magic wrote: »
    I've had all sorts of fruit flung at me, usually from vans.

    Ive had pedestrians fling fruit at me in the car, what is it with people in general throwing fruit at anyone.


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    amcalester
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,121 ✭✭✭amcalester


    Eric Cartman wrote: »
    Ive had pedestrians fling fruit at me in the car, what is it with people in general throwing fruit at anyone.

    With an attitude like yours I'm not surprised.


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    Chuchote
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,368 ✭✭✭Chuchote


    Effects wrote: »
    I know a woman who had her ass slapped by someone in a passing car!

    Used to be common in the 1970s, then random women started wearing cardboard studded with outward-facing thumb tacks inside their jeans and it stopped.
    Eric Cartman wrote: »
    The first thing I see in that video is her trying to damage the left wing mirror of the van and the lad responding with cheeky comments

    No, look closer and you'll see that after they swerved into her bike lane, she's folding in the mirror so she can pass.


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    Tenzor07
    Registered Users Posts: 8,848 ✭✭✭Tenzor07


    Eric Cartman wrote: »
    The first thing I see in that video is her trying to damage the left wing mirror of the van and the lad responding with cheeky comments

    The first thing in the video is of a van with 2 or 3 men verbally/sexually harassing a lone female cyclist stopped at lights which then turns into them trying to physically grab her and then using the van to physically harass her also...

    Again, watch the video, and this time put the specs on...:rolleyes:


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    #27
    JJJJNR
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,791 ✭✭✭JJJJNR


    Fake news


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    daragh_
    Registered Users Posts: 3,123 ✭✭✭daragh_


    Eric Cartman wrote: »
    The first thing I see in that video is her trying to damage the left wing mirror of the van and the lad responding with cheeky comments

    'Cheeky Comments'? Seriously. How are things in 1970?


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    lawred2
    Registered Users Posts: 24,395 ✭✭✭✭lawred2


    Eric Cartman wrote: »
    What an awful woman, she deserves to be done for criminal damage. The lads arent great, but words dont deserve damage to their property

    lame ass trolling


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    Moflojo
    Registered Users Posts: 1,006 ✭✭✭Moflojo


    Watch the very end of the video, she cycles contraflow on a one-way street to make sure the van can't follow her.

    CleverGirl_Fullpic_1.gif


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    ford2600
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    Eric Cartman wrote: »
    She chased them down to destroy a wing mirror , the video only kicks in at that moment, you're operating under the assumption that these lads just randomly accosted her, in reality she could have cut them off or any other number of bad cycling etiquette to provoke that. Nobody knows what happened before the biker started filming it.

    But there is never any circumstance where mean words justify physical violence
    To summaries imaginary "bad cycling etiquette" justifies their reaction but 2/3 grown men together, swerving into a vulnerable road user, attempting to grab her, pretty nasty verbals yet she's the wrong doer for standing up for herself.

    Property damage doesn't equate to physical violence.


    I've always liked brave people, it is easier when you are big, but when smaller and outnumbered it takes a special mentality.


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