Laura Whitmore: 'A man put his hand up my skirt in a nightclub and laughed'

Not a nice thing to happen to a woman.
As a man it would not bother me if a woman Grabbed me. But thinking if a man grabbed me it would be very uncomfortable. Hmm. Am I allowed to say that or is it sexist
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Strait Up wrote: »

Is this a nightclub thing? I have spent a good deal of my life in pubs and have never seen a woman molested.

Yep cos sleezbags like to do it in the dark where they won't get a thump off the nearest actual lad that sees it and stands up for the girl.

I've had mates do it to girls, one regret i have is not calling them out on it. Some girls like it, would have to say majority probably don't.

I wouldn't mind if a class looking bird grabbed my arse, but if if she had a face like a bulldogs arse I probably wouldn't be too impressed. Better off everyone be sound and start leaving each others arses alone.

professore wrote: »

More front page news on the Indo today.

Really ... an Irish woman is gang raped in the Czech republic by 6 men. Radio silence.

A Z list celeb once had some creep put his hand up her skirt - front page news. It's not pleasant but hardly worthy of front page coverage.

https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/laura-whitmore-a-man-put-his-hand-up-my-skirt-in-a-nightclub-and-laughed-36799492.html

Celeb? I've never even heard of the woman.

Dakota Dan wrote: »

She's average.

RubyGlee wrote: »

Fair play to her for speaking out about it.
No one male or female has the right to touch someone like that without....the buzz word....consent.
Assault plain and simple. If more keep speaking out then maybe just maybe it might start to sink in

You wouldn't want to have been around in the 70's or 80's.

Look, this is great and all that women are starting to realise that they don't have to be silent about these things. But for the love of God report it to the actual police, and not the social media police. What good is telling everyone you were touched up in a nightclub, and giving out about it, if you never did anything about it? There's no need to tell us this happens, as we all more or less know getting groped in a nightclub is a good possibility (and yes, it shouldn't happen, but it does). Hey, even some people enjoy it.

And i'm all for equal rights, as long as they are equal. And one can't even give a hypothetical situation without being called out as being misogynistic or victim blaming. I like to play devils advocate, simply because a lot of people are stuck in their ways and refuse to take part in a debate, not wanting to hear the other side. I take little to no interest in the majority of these debates, but I have great interest in over reactions of people on either side. Victim blaming is wrong, but there has to be some semblance of accountability in a lot of these cases. It may be the smallest of amounts, but it has to be there (in a lot of cases, not all, but people don't want to hear that).

Personally I think she's gorgeous and that chap who assaulted her should be charged if it was as bad as she suggested, which i have no reason to doubt. Met her once when her bf was swarmed by young girls at a gig. She walked over to me and started chatting until they all cleared off. She was lovely and came across as very genuine. However, I do disagree with the following:

She also slammed male paparazzi for taking "pants shots" of female celebrities, saying those in the public eye are not "playthings."

I mean this is fair enough if you're not the kind of celeb who is courting that kind of shot but Laura has attended premieres where she has worn outfits that show off her panties and the like and you're playing with fire when you do that as naturally paps are just going to go for the most explicit shot they can. Here's an example.

I do think up skirt shots are going too far but then, tbf, some female celebs have deliberately exposed their underwear and worse / better (depending on your perspective) in a brazen attempt at getting in the papers and that's bound to have a knock on effect on celebs who don't want such attention. So I think while I get where she's coming from, you really can't blame the paparazzi 100% on (at least all) the kind of photos that's she's referring to.

Careful Pete, you don't want to be victim blaming here. Women should be allowed to wear what they want, and not have the paparazzi taking photos of their privates.

However, on the flip side, people know that's what the paparazzi do, so why put yourself in that situation to begin with, just because 'I should be able to'. Plenty of celebs out there have little to no 'revealing' photos, because they know if they put themselves in that situation, it will happen. But no, can't victim blame...

Blame Game wrote: »

Maybe it's best not to hang out in seedy nightclubs?

Perfect username!

What is it with these 'celebs' they need to tell us everything that ever happened to them and every little thing they do.

Do they think we really care about their lives?

khaldrogo wrote: »

Drunken men or women pinching arses or whatnot is not sexual assault.

A rapist/pedo/abusive person deserves their life to be spent locked up, a drunk who grabs a boob.......not so much.

So just to be clear, you reckon that YOU have the right to decide who gets to touch MY body, and how/when they touch MY body? And same for my wife and my daughter - it is YOUR standard of touching up that is relevant, and not THEIR personal choice about who/how/when they are touched?

Liam Shy Material wrote: »

Espeically Amanda Brunker/Vogue Williams/Roz Purcell types who have no talent only just being "attractive"....Like do we care if Vogue pops into the Jacks at Stephens Green while out shopping or Amanda found a 50cent coin on her walk

NIMAN wrote: »

What is it with these 'celebs' they need to tell us everything that ever happened to them and every little thing they do.

Do they think we really care about their lives?

I'm always amazed/amused by those who click into threads about 'celebs' to complain about 'celeb' culture. If you're really not interested, why did you click into the thread?

Ask any man who has worn a kilt....