Bouncing off the current thread about harassment:
I want to preface this by saying that I know there are millions and millions of wonderful, decent men in the world who would never dream of harassing a woman. But after reading the thread, I started to wonder why it is that the vast majority of verbal sexual harassment is committed by men.
After all, it's not as if women don't have desires or get aroused. Can you imagine if the tables were turned?
"Nice packet you've got there. You should wear something tighter." Etc.
I know there's a physical difference, but in a public place, a woman can be fairly sure that a man's not going to turn round and hit her for saying something sexual to him. How come we never hear about older women leering at younger men on the check-out? Or offering to pay him for a good ride on that cock he has stuffed into his pants? Or telling him to wear tighter pants to work so she can check him out better next time she's in?
I mean, you just DON'T hear about it. Maybe it happens, but I've never heard of it happening.
Why are so many men old leches compared to women? Women can have strong urges during ovulation, after all, and we don't go and leer at every young man who crosses our path because we're horny for babies and we want good young genes!!
Sorry for any generalizations - I know there are so many good men out there, but it just seems that the public verbal harassment of a sexual nature is mostly a one-way street, and I wonder why.
Does anyone remember the first episode of Sex and the City, where a worker on the street harasses Miranda, and she goes right up to him and offers him s*x. He becomes very uncomfortable and backs down.
It seems to me that there is just something in the psyche of men that allows many of them to act this way, and women just don't. (Generalizing, yes, but I hope you understand what I mean.)
Apologies to all the decent guys reading this.
I want to preface this by saying that I know there are millions and millions of wonderful, decent men in the world who would never dream of harassing a woman. But after reading the thread, I started to wonder why it is that the vast majority of verbal sexual harassment is committed by men.
After all, it's not as if women don't have desires or get aroused. Can you imagine if the tables were turned?
"Nice packet you've got there. You should wear something tighter." Etc.
I know there's a physical difference, but in a public place, a woman can be fairly sure that a man's not going to turn round and hit her for saying something sexual to him. How come we never hear about older women leering at younger men on the check-out? Or offering to pay him for a good ride on that cock he has stuffed into his pants? Or telling him to wear tighter pants to work so she can check him out better next time she's in?
I mean, you just DON'T hear about it. Maybe it happens, but I've never heard of it happening.
Why are so many men old leches compared to women? Women can have strong urges during ovulation, after all, and we don't go and leer at every young man who crosses our path because we're horny for babies and we want good young genes!!
Sorry for any generalizations - I know there are so many good men out there, but it just seems that the public verbal harassment of a sexual nature is mostly a one-way street, and I wonder why.
Does anyone remember the first episode of Sex and the City, where a worker on the street harasses Miranda, and she goes right up to him and offers him s*x. He becomes very uncomfortable and backs down.
It seems to me that there is just something in the psyche of men that allows many of them to act this way, and women just don't. (Generalizing, yes, but I hope you understand what I mean.)
Apologies to all the decent guys reading this.