The question is.. What actually constitutes Leering or Staring? And report to police? Surely they have better things to do?

[molonski2]

Look , I can understand in the extreme but most people have been stared at at some point. So you are telling me it's illegal to look? Or be looked at? This stuff is getting beyond Crazy
. Thoughts?

Updates

10 mo

So it is interesting , posted the same thing about this sign on FB , and the vast majority of support has come from my female friends who think it is ludicrous.. Who decides? Leering? Really? Is that a word? Do you need to be drooling? As a teenager on the busy train I'd get pinched on the arse all the time , I didn't seek it , didn't particularly enjoy it , but agree.. different times , I survived , now surely this is over reach of a TINY percentage in the catogery of " politically correct " .

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10 mo

I just received an update from a female friend of mine , wish I could post it in the update , but it's telling me too long. Come on !! This entire concept of Leering / Staring is just ludicrous. In the 80s it was normal for me to get pinched on the arse on a train. I didn't even react Did it really matter? No And was in good fun , people are just " sorry for everything" this is a joke.

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9 mo

Displaying much signs is simply highly offensive and utterly ludicrous quite frankly.. Surely we are better than this?

[Chazmatazz269]

It’s just another weapon in the toolbox of systemic misandry. Even if you could justify it, they will never apply it justly. Think they’ll ever arrest a woman for leering? Of course not. We can barely get women arrested and charged when they r*pe children. Laws like that are meant to marginalize men. They weren’t getting enough of us with false allegations of r*pe and SA. So they invented a crime that literally has no evidence to collect and compile for due process. You go to prison on the complainant’s word alone.

[AviatorTom]

This is Azerbaijan, where they have some "unusual" rules, and where the President has been in the same family for decades.

[molonski2]

Victoria Australia..
Crazy Isn't it?

[purplepoppy]

They have those poster in London too.

[AviatorTom]

I think I misinterpreted the phone number listed on the poster. That's what I get for doing things when I just wake up.

[molonski2]

It's the number you call if someone looks at you sideways Tom.. what a complete Joke.
Imagine calling.." someone's looking at me " please arrest them..
How sensitive can one become?
It needs a sign on a railway station?

[purplepoppy]

Nobody has ever been arrested for a sideways glance. Are you a starer molonski? I bet you are, and I bet you never do it when she's with a man. Why do you only stare at women alone? Why not stare at men? Go on, get on a train stare at a guy non stop.

[molonski2]

Hahahahaha.
That is not even worthy of an answer , a plethora of assumptions that really don't matter.

[Sevenpointfive]

@purplepoppy why is he being forced to stare at guys now?

[purplepoppy]

We all know the difference even you. A Hard long unbroken fixed look where the eyes never leave their target, usually the other person's eyes. If you look at reports from London these men stand only feet away and stare non stop at your face if you move they move so they can continue. Normal person don't do that, Normal people know staring is offensive. You're taught not to stare at dogs so why stare at women? Only sexual predators do that.

[molonski2]

Sorry purple , I have no idea..
If it's as you describe maybe fair enough , but a sign at a railway?
Just complete overreach..
Leering? WTF , it's about perception.. just imagine these reports.

[purplepoppy]

It's not over reach to protect vulnerable women from sexual predators. How would you react if a guy stood next to your wife/daughter and stared non stop in her eyes?

[purplepoppy]

Leering is a word. It means staring with malicious sexual intent

[SeekerOfTruth007]

You can't say what the other person's intent was, because you can't read minds.

This law must be unconstitutional in the USA. It's absurd.

[purplepoppy]

No but we can conclude it from their behaviour.

[molonski2]

@SeekerOfTruth007
Absolutely beyond absurd mate.
How would you possibly know intent? How many women have been charged?
The word itself is completely open to interpretation..

[Kelley1]

If they don't touch, it is okay. It can be unnerving, but I'm free to leave. If they follow me, I believe that is stalking which I believe is illegal.

[4ngelic]

i think it's when you look at a girl/woman in a deliberate sexual long unhidden way to intimidate or harrass her.

i obviously think it's pretty disgusting and assholey when some men do this but it shouldn't be illegal for obvious reasons

[molonski2]

That's possibly what they may mean @4ngelic , but an actual definition and call? Who becomes the judge? Then what about the other way round?
The sign makes ludicrous assumptions, I'd love to copy a ( female ) answer from another site , but I'd have to ask first..
She summed it up really well.

[msc545]

What the fuck does "deliberate sexual long unhidden way" supposed to mean? Oh wait - a way you dislike by a guy you are not attracted to, right?

[Anonymous]

I don’t think it’s should be illegal or a legally punishable offense. We’ve become too sensitive of a society and to where everything seems to get people upset and in a panic. If it’s not stalking, it shouldn’t be a problem but even stalking shouldn’t be a problem if you aren’t causing them any harm by it.

[Miristheiss]

Women are so fragile.

How many little baby laws are needed to cator your fucking feelings?

Are are strong and empowered are delicate infants?

[BeenThereLovedIt]

This is feminism out of control. Gym's are toxic and to be avoided.

[Sevenpointfive]

if you had enough time to read the sign then that constitutes staring or leering

[Sevenpointfive]

and what are all of the PEOPLE WATCHERS supposed to do now? i don't do it, but my dad does. it's weird.

[Anonymous]

Having such a law is obviously ridiculous and unlawful. Who gets to decide where to draw the line on what constitutes staring or leering? Preposterous.

[molonski2]

This was the response from. a female friend of mine on another site to the picture..
" Omg they really are doing their best to emasculate men and stop people from breeding hey? If they're going to lengths like that I think we can resign ourselves to the fact that it's only going to get worse and the disconnection between males and females is pushed from every angle... Especially in Victoria... The Nana State! Because you can put money on it that sign was conjured up by some fat and ugly man hater who, to her chagrin has probably never been stared or leered at by a bloke her whole life and deep down she's really seething with jealousy so this is her payback! Lol! A bit like that thing who's supposed to be premier... You know, Dan Andrews in a blonde wig? It doesn't even deserve the title of being a woman! "

[beefcakebradybatson]

If you make a woman uncomfortable while doing the boyish thing and gazing at her spuds or bottom, you've crossed the line, lads.

[Dargil]

That's a good reason to defect to America.

[molonski2]

Yes , I'd agree with that Fck me.. How Crazy 🤣 ? But it's real

[DrPepper12]

It's is not a legal issue, it's a breach of mores. Fucking stupid

[Anonymous]

You are a man who still lives and aren't a child molester like the prime minister so you should be sent to jail for life or executed

[Kelley1]

It can be unnerving, but you are free to leave.

[molonski2]

Well , yes although " leave the train "

[noohair]

Where is this?

[molonski2]

Victoria Melbourne 🦘 Australia
" The nanny State " ..

[noohair]

That makes sense

[molonski2]

It shouldn't.. but right now yeah , I take your point.