You Couldn't Make It Up

[joeluke]

Builders investigated for wolf-whistling woman

Before you know it, winking at a bird will be deemed 'offensive' too

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3057347/Police-probe-construction-firm-23-year-old-woman-accused-builders-sexual-harassment-WOLF-WHISTLING.html

[andy-hughes]

Svejk - /////It's instances like this that make me simultaneously glad to be a man, and ashamed of my gender///

For gawd's sake. //

Do you have an observation to go with that?

[Svejk]

Yes I do. You already have a coterie of Hughsettes on here who wait, adoringly, on your every word. Is there any tired old cliché you to which you won't stoop to add to their number. We're talking wolf-whistlers here not child murderers.

[andy-hughes]

Svejk - jealousy is such an unattractive trait in an AB'er - don't you think??

And for the record, we are not 'talking wolf-whistlers here ...' we are talking the sustained intimidation of a young woman who felt sufficiently threatened to take her concerns to the police.

I know you like to dismiss situations you regard as footling by dismissing the content and sticking to the headline - but the facts remain.

[naomi24]

I don't think Svejk is jealous.

[mushroom25]

this matter was reported on "midlands today" last night, and the victim was interviewed at length. she didn't report the builders lightly, and only did so because this had been going on for some weeks, and their "attention" had recently escalated to the point that the men were leaving the site to stand in front of her, follow her, and generally intimidate.

[andy-hughes]

naomi24 - //I don't think Svejk is jealous. //

neither do I - but sometimes, poking the bear is just too hard to resist!!

[joeluke]

'When I first started there, there was pics up on the men's brew room wall of scantily clothed ladies. How much has changed in that respect in those 7 years! There is change, very gradual change.'


Where I work we have several calendars with pics of fully naked birds

We'll never change

[Elina]

I know Joe. ... its a Barney Rubble world out there sometimes ... innit geezer!