Is wolf-whistling a sex crime?

15.56.03 - post I mean

Plenty of daft posts around, Jings I am entitled to my share.

It's easy to give extreme examples to demonstrate how one or other side is being ridiculous and unreasonable, but this doesn't help. Everyday sexism makes too many women feel uncomfortable, dismissed and frustrated that they can't put their opinions forward without being accused of hating men, being frigid, lesbians there man-haters, jealous, having no sense of humour etc. etc.

Sad that women turn on each other, even when the miscreant who has had a good stir up and set it off is long gone

....should say lesbians therefore man-haters....

iPad keyboard sticking, sorry.

Yes you are Elegran. Soz.

I haven't got a clue who the miscreant on this thread was.

I don't think I'm following this very well. I'm going to plant some plants.

#somethingwillgetdonethisday

Yet another thread that has been turned into a character assassination and I am reminded of the problems of a similar nature last week.

I think it is getting ridiculous that a similar problem has surfaced so shortly after the last debacle and I am astounded GNHQ has left another thread to fester without comment. Some of the posts on this thread and others are aggressive, personal in their attack and if this is going to continue unchecked then posters will consider it to be perfectly legitimate to post in this manner.

Pompa made a post that some found sexist, others did not. He did not deserve the vitriolic posts by a few that followed and for my mind those posts are of a nature that I find to be far worse than anything he posted.

I wonder whether gransnet have chosen to do a light touch while there are some tensions around the election coming up?
Or else they are short staffed?
Or else of course, no one may have reported anything.
Personally, I no longer have a clue what is a personal attack and what is not.

It is the weekend around Mayday. Short-staffed would be my bet. Some poor soul will come back to it on Monday morning.

I don't think 'miscreant' is a fair word to describe pompa, if that's who it was intended for.

Elegran, you don't mean that no one is around to...er...moderate at all, do you? You'll give people ideas!

"...chaste men wore a long night gown with a hole cut in it, so that they could impregnate their wives without (horror) either of them enjoying it"



Would that stop the bloke... Oh, never mind.

So long as the hole was -

No! Stop it now!

I thought the hole was in the woman's gown? Indecent to bare ones legs you know! Whot?

I don't see why/how that would stop either of them enjoying it!

I don't think anyone could call pomps a "miscreant".

Perhaps when meant Magpie123.

The development of this thread passes belief. An almost light-hearted OP has provoked an intense and often acrimonious debate about wolf-whistling in particular and the nature of men (and women) in general. Pompa tried to introduce a little levity in his customary manner while making a genuine point about human nature, and was roundly abused and bravely defended.

No wonder very few men, apparently, have the cojones to join in on threads like this; we are on a hiding to nothing.

Get a life, everyone; it's not too late, even for grandparents!

I suppose it might be like keeping his pj's on.

Oh is that what the thread's about?! Yes, I remember now.

Galen Perhaps two holes? Synchronisation could be difficult in the dark (not easy in the light either)

Might cause friction burns with the fabric?

Well said, grumppa.

I'm pretty sure when didn't mean magpie123, jingl...

And his socks, jings don't forget his socks.

Not two holes each though, that could be dodgy!