I don't usually use this blog to vent about such issues, but men are scum. plain and simple.
Cat calling has reached a new level.
Now I have been subject to some pretty horrid experiences in my life but today was beyond demeaning and annoying.
I was walking to school this morning on campus and a group of campus groundskeepers sitting on a bench whistled at me. I walked briskly and avoided all eye contact and got out of eye-line of them. I walked a bit further and was approached by another groundskeeper who looked me up and down and then said, "looking good" in a slimy creepy voice.
I then took the road less travelled, quite literally, to avoid anybody possible. Another groundskeeper approached! And he had his radio in-hand and spoke into it as he passed by saying, "yeah... things are definitely looking hot today". And THEN proceeded to make "smoochie" noises at me.
They were using their radios to practically stalk me across campus so they could objectfiy me!
Seriously now.. I am beyond sick of this kind of behaviour from men. Don't you know that behaviour like that repulses women? It makes us feel sick to our stomachs? You are doing us no favour. And do you know that you give your entire gender a bad rep when you act so disgustingly?
Do you realize that I have to go out of my way on my way home to avoid any alleyway or any street that has men idling? Why do *I* have to be inconvenienced and change my route home because you are so fucking disrespectful to women?
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Tuesday, 22 July 2008
Men are scum
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Maybe next time smile at the ones that approach you and ask what his/their name is. Say "thanks", walk away and immediately file a complaint with whatever campus it is. Or don't talk to them and just file the complaint giving specific info on where they were, what they looked like etc. After getting fired, they might think twice about doing it again.
And it's a lot more productive than complaining about it on a Vancouver blog, grouping a bunch of idiots in with me because we have penises.
Sounds more like a "UBC or SF or CU or DC or GW groundskeepers are scum" post.
Couldn't disparage a larger group? Lost in thought? Maybe "Right wingers are scum", no? I know, Chinese are scum. Indians?
Just like you, I'm _so_ sure those grade 10 grads are representative of the male half of the pop.
You're angry and you've the right to be, but don't call my sex out for something that five or ten people did. Call _them_ out. Call them out to the Admin staff. Make a difference as opposed to whining about men in general on the Internet.
Cheers,
lance
dear angry men,
it is called "venting".
people do it. i just waid i was venting.
and what did you not get from "don't you know it gives your gender a bad rep when you act like that"
i realize not all men are scum. a blogpost is sometimes just a blog post to vent personal qualms.
and because i don't work in mainstream media i have no resonsibility to be PC and no responsibility for how YOU will percieve my post, whether your interpretations is correct or incorrect.
This is a blog people, not the national post.
Heckling
Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on July 23, 2008 - 6:16am.
As someone who heckled girls in their youth "with the guys", I can only say that it is pretty immature behavior and what they are looking for is a reaction. Rarely will you find a catcaller working alone.. that would truly be creepy. But put a bunch of guys together and our collective IQ tends to decrease exponentially.
Back to why we do it... for any kind of reaction. If a girl gives us the finger, etc, it is cause for high fives. For the thousands of girls I've heckled, not one has winked or rushed over to give me her number. Quite honestly, I think most catcallers would not know what to do except run off and tell their buds. Again, think along the lines of a 8 year old.
In conclusion, ignore them and deny them the pleasure. Same as when your pigtails were pulled in kindergarten... it essentially the same boys inside the men. Sorry you have to put up with us!
Could you post a photo to see what all the fuss is about?
Funny that you used that particular adjective (i.e. scum) to describe men (all 3+ billion?).
How 'bout a new tagline for the gender, "Men - putting the cum in scum since the dawn of time."
Sorry for the gender reversal in the tagline.
requesting a picture of what you were wearing that got all this attention
This is likely the scum I am referring to. "What were you wearing" = "You had to do SOMETHING that provoked them".
rule 101 of trying to make women feel responsible for men's inability to be non-sexist adults= make the woman feel responsible for her own suffering.
Meaning, you should know damn well that it doesn't matter what I was wearing, or what I look like. That is not the point. the point is that I am a human being and do not deserve to be hoot and hollered at and made to feel uncomfortable just because some men have no manners.
Wow, another tirade! Young heffer, you have got some serious issues.
I just wanted a photo, because you sound rather ugly on the inside.
It does matter how you look, just as manners are important in society.
You take that chance that your femininity will be acknowledged, however much it may make you distraught with rage.
Perhaps approach the cat-callers with your concerns and see how long before you suddenly appear unattractive. It will work and they won't likely forget you either...
Big hugs (now post a pic)
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=heffer
1. heffer
a really fat bitch, one comparable to a cow's size
damn, u actually stuck ur penis in that heffer?
2. heffer
1) A really conceited girl. A chick with a very nasty attitude.
2) An overweight chick.
Dat heffer better watch herself, or she'll get jumped!
Daamnnn, look at dat huge ass heffer over there!
conceited fat stuck up cow bitchy equator belt size
I'll go with definition 2(1) for this nasty girl.
what is wrong with you people?
This is probably why she is upset. Women go through a lot of shit. She is angry for the very reason that you guys don't understand what it is like to feel assaulted and you compound the problem by referring to her as a "fat bitch".
EVERYONE goes through a lot of shit. My God, woman! Don't you recall 'stick and stones...' from grade school. There are big bad wolves everywhere; learn to deal. Things could be a lot fucking worse!!!
don't let something so trivial ruin you whole day!
and these comments are freakin' funny - darwin, send me a photo.
such a status quo attitude.
yes things can be worse. but things can be a lot better.
we add to systemic and social inequality when we don't strive to do better. doesn't matter if we've got it good relative to other times/places. What matters is that we try to do better.
Most of the comments here? Not trying to do better. There are bigger battles, yes, but let us not be lazy to fight the small ones
um... wouldn't '...striving to do better' include refraining from insulting half the population with a totally uncalled for insult?
You seem very unlikeable. However, you are likely very young, so there may yet be hope for you...
I write this not to be mean, just honest. Best of luck!
Yeah, the heading should be "Gardeners are scum" (especially male landscapers).
I'm sure everyone would be on board with that...
For all the guys out there replying to this thread with defensiveness: get the fuck over it. If you haven't stepped up and taken responsibility for the abuse and horrid actions of our gender over time immemorial, then you have no right to take offense.
Women experience shit that you will NEVER understand. The least you could do is sympathise, but in reality we should be talking with our fellow men and educating them on how not to be assholes.
It's really not the job of women to have to take all the action to fight off creepy catcalling men. Instead, we men should go and have an old-fashioned sit-down with these groundskeepers and let them know that what they did is not cool. If they just get called out on it by her or by the school, they'll never change. They need role models of their own gender setting an example.
clavio: thank you for making sense.
blaming the victim and the just-world hypothesis
The just-world phenomenon, also called the just-world theory, just-world fallacy, just-world effect, or just-world hypothesis, refers to the tendency for people to want to believe that the world is "just" so strongly that when they witness an otherwise inexplicable injustice they will rationalize it by searching for things that the victim might have done to deserve it. This deflects their anxiety, and lets them continue to believe the world is a just place, but at the expense of blaming victims for things that were not, objectively, their fault.
One study gave women what appeared to be painful electric shocks while working on a difficult memory problem. Those who observed the experiment appeared to blame the victim for her fate, praised the experiment, and rated her as being less physically attractive than did those who had seen her but not the experiment. [1]
In another study, subjects were told two versions of a story about an interaction between a woman and a man. Both variations were exactly the same, except at the very end the man raped the woman in one and in the other he proposed marriage. In both conditions, subjects viewed the woman's (identical) actions as inevitably leading to the (very different) results
Studies have shown that those who believe in a "just world" may be more likely to believe that rape victims must have behaved seductively, that battered wives must have deserved their beatings, that sick people must have caused their own illness, or that the poor deserve their lot
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Just_World_Hypothesis
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