I can sympathise. A man in a car flashed me and my friend when we were 11. Fucking pervert.
I think men get away with this behaviour because it isn’t treated as sexual harrassment – if there are other people around, it would be a lot easier to react in such a way that they would be made aware of this simple fact. It’s only natural to be scared of men who do this, since if they are prepared to transgress this one social norm, might not they be prepaerd to cross another line and actually touch you in some way inappropriately? However, I can’t help but notice that no one seems to have sugegsted the most simple response: scream. If people hear a person screaming, they look,they move towards them, they tend to consider helping them. So drawing atetntion to the sick fucker flashing you might be the best idea – it would certainly unnerve them and maybe make them wonder about doing it again, when they might well be caught.
Also, report the event. Perhaps the police may not take it seriously, but it is a criminal offence. Report it and at least that way there will be an awareness of it happening once, and perhaps if the pervert repeats their flashing in a similar area, they might be caught.
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This woman is high on emotion, and low on logic…she says…
I think men get away with this behaviour because it isn’t treated as sexual harassment – no, it is not harassment and, from a legal standpoint, it is not even sexual
It’s only natural to be scared of men who do this – really??? I think, lauren, you have some catching up to do…
if they are prepared to transgress this one social norm, might not they be prepared to cross another line – your paranoia is showing, lauren…this kind of muddled thinking is not acceptable in a court of law…the basics, lauren, are that you cannot try a man for something he hasn’t done!
I could go on, but I think this kind of hysterical response by women such as lauren serve merely to create a problem, where before there was none…indeed studies, while not conclusive as yet, indicate that exhibitionism REDUCES the more serious sex crimes!!
