Female Harassment

Kintarō Hattori

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.

Tenzor07

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

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.

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.

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.

Parchment

fat bloke wrote: »

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

I just snorted my tea out my nose!!

godtabh

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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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.

godtabh

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.

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.

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.)

D3V!L

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

Effects

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

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.

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

Effects

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.

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?? :eek:

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

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!!

Wanderer78

Tenzor07 wrote:

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

Fair play to her, what a prick

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

Andy Magic

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

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.

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.

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.

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:

JJJJNR

Fake news

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?

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

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.

ford2600

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.

tomasrojo

Andy Magic wrote: »

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

I used to get stuff thrown at me out of cars a fair bit. Not sure what a lot of it was, but eggs on one occasion at least. On another occasion, for the terrible crime of saying "careful!", I had fast food thrown at me.

Effects

Moflojo wrote: »

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

Which is a very smart move given how threatening they had already been when swerving their van at her earlier on. I've had to do the same escaping a dangerous driver before.

Effects

ford2600 wrote: »

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

It was a fight or flight situation, and she chose fight!

Had she just taken a different route those scum bags would just continue to trat women like that every day. Maybe they will think twice next time.

lawred2

Seriously have to wonder at the mindset of lads like that...

Good for her.

irishgrover

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

She's a ****ing hero, and deserves a medal. The lads deserve a good hiding....

Lux23

Now I am in my mid-thirties, I don't get as much I did in my twenties but I still get the odd eegit shouting "big tits" out his car window. Like what is the possible outcome of such an approach, why do these men do this?

Effects

Lux23 wrote: »

why do these men do this?

You may possibly run into him in a pub, remember his compliment and buy him a drink.

Shemale

Lux23 wrote: »

Now I am in my mid-thirties, I don't get as much I did in my twenties but I still get the odd eegit shouting "big tits" out his car window. Like what is the possible outcome of such an approach, why do these men do this?

It tends to be dickheads who do it and whatever it is about more than one guy in a van it turns them into assholes.

Maybe they watch too much porn and think you will give them a look at your cans if they shout it.

If I was passing by this scene I definitely would have got involved, obnoxious ****, she was totally right.

c0rk3r

I was stopped in phibsborough once waiting at the lights with one hand on the railings. There was a lady at the pedestrian crossing waiting for the green man. Our eyes caught each other then her eyes drifted down to my Lycra clad package. The cheek

Another time, also in phibsborough I was stopped at the lights. Two women (looked like they were heading to croke park) started cat calling me. Then approached me wanting to bring me to McGowan's. I didn't go

crisco10

While I agree that the lads deserved it, I'm pretty that she cycled past 2 police officers at about 55 seconds in? Probably more appropriate to say it to them rather than take the law into your own hands...

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crisco10 wrote: »

While I agree that the lads deserved it, I'm pretty that she cycled past 2 police officers at about 55 seconds in? Probably more appropriate to say it to them rather than take the law into your own hands...

I bet nothing would have come of it - im delighted she did what she did.

Alek

I was stopped in phibsborough once waiting

I also got a sexual compliment from a female driver once or twice. Can't say it ruined my day...

arybvtcw0eolkf

I hate when I think I've spied a nice ass ahead of me, slow then to check it out then find it has a beard

But all joking a side I love the girl in that clip. Deserves the scumbags in the van right, I just wish their registration plate and faces were visible to the viewing public.

trek climber

fat bloke wrote: »

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

Had to look that word up in the dictionary !!

Shemale

crisco10 wrote: »

While I agree that the lads deserved it, I'm pretty that she cycled past 2 police officers at about 55 seconds in? Probably more appropriate to say it to them rather than take the law into your own hands...

Not cops, two lads who are rocking the high viz look

Tenzor07

Shemale wrote: »

Not cops, two lads who are rocking the high viz look

Two police men and one person in hi-vis

Shemale

Tenzor07 wrote: »

Two police men and one person in hi-vis

I stand corrected, saw the high viz and the van wasn't police, didn't screenshot the girl on the bike :pac:

rubadub

Impressive how she managed to rip it off so easily!

triggermortis

Well done for the girl in the video. It could have ended badly if the driver had opened his door and knocked her off her bike, but he didn't, and justice was served. It's sad to see these idiots acting this way towards other people, but great to see them get their comeuppance!

ozmo

This is all over the place - but it was staged - Fake News

A man was allegedly seen giving instructions to actors before the scene was filmed by a motorcyclist on Monday.

... “I was across the road having a break and I saw this very attractive girl with a bike talking to a blonde guy who was giving her instructions.

“Then three guys dressed in orange site clothes turned up in a van and the blonde bloke was giving them instructions too.

“He was telling the girl: ‘You need to ride behind the van aggressively’.

“They practiced the scene two or three times with the motorbike riding behind them.

“You could see there was already damage to the wing mirror, it was loose.

Source: https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/2922701/female-cyclist-takes-revenge-on-disgusting-catcaller-by-ripping-off-his-wing-mirror-when-he-stops-at-red-light/