Do you agree that Wolf Whistling should be made a criminal offence ?

Guys will be pigs. But here it's free speech. I'm just so stunned a country will try to impose moral and manners on the citizens.
oooh that's not the start of it.. we've been getting told how to stand in line and do as we're told for a very long time, metaphorically, and legally speaking..
 

As a young man I had a '39 Chevrolet that had a wolf whistle. You pulled a knob under the dashboard an the car let out a good loud whistle. I haven't seen one of those in many decades.
The whistle was mounted on the engine and vacuum operated.
^^ Had the same on an old 29 chevy pickup, and guess what... folks loved it. :) Sheeez... What's next??? Will hubba hubba get you locked up. :mad:
 
More woke crap from the delicate snowflake crowd :mad:
I thought wolf-whistling went out of style in the 50's or 60's anyway.
In truth I rarely hear wolf whistling these days, you're right.. I;ve had a lot of it in my life, sometimes it's a nusiance or embarassing , sometimes it's a compliment... ... I think this potential new law it's going to be aimed at se* ual inuendos''.. cat calling, suggestive remarks to strangers.. etc.. ..
 
Guys will be pigs. But here it's free speech. I'm just so stunned a country will try to impose moral and manners on the citizens.
Wolf whistling is not a compliment. It can amount to harrassment. If a girl has to walk past a building site every day and is met with a chorus of wolf whistles and offensive comments like 'nice tits' and worse, then she has every right to complain to the police. A brief visit and warning from a uniformed member of the police force should be enough to silence the louts. If it continues, then a charge of offensive behaviour is in order.

Wolf whistling is not a compliment. It can make girls feel unsafe and mortified to receive such attention.
 
Wolf whistling is not a compliment. It can make girls feel unsafe and mortified to receive such attention.
There are numerous things that can make a woman feel uncomfortable, such as staring at one licking your lips seductively, but to criminalize such would pass a Constitutional challenge here in the States, "Void for vagueness".
 
In my view, wolf whistling and making lewd sexual comments are two very different things. I always thought of wolf whistling as just an acknowledgement of a good looking woman passing by. Although I wasn't one to do it it, I never thought of it as offensive - more complimentary providing it ended at just a whistle.
 
In my view, wolf whistling and making lewd ****** comments are two very different things

Absolutely correct...but some people love to lump everything together. Quite obvious, the people who do this have never studied law.
Our police in England should find better things to do with their time. Lots of attention is needed in other more important areas.
Is this what I am paying taxes for? Wastage of police time?
 
Wolf whistling is not a compliment. It can amount to harrassment. If a girl has to walk past a building site every day and is met with a chorus of wolf whistles and offensive comments like 'nice tits' and worse, then she has every right to complain to the police. A brief visit and warning from a uniformed member of the police force should be enough to silence the louts. If it continues, then a charge of offensive behaviour is in order.

Wolf whistling is not a compliment. It can make girls feel unsafe and mortified to receive such attention.
Actually wolf whistling is a compliment. I've never seen any guy wolf whistle to someone heavily obese or elderly. Not that there's people who don't like that sort of action.

But frankly, it's such a rarity, I'm surprised England is considering a law about it. Got bigger first to fry then ticketing some imbeciles.
 
Wolf whistling is not a compliment. It can make girls feel unsafe and mortified to receive such attention.
I agree with this, especially for young girls. As soon as I had little breasts guys on the street starting hooting / whistling etc. I was only 11 yrs old, it did not feel flattering it was definitely scary. And the older I got the worse it was, when I was a teen I remember a car slowly rolling beside me and when I looked over the guy in it was rubbing himself. So gross. When I was 15 and in drivers education we were supposed to turn in assignments of diagrams of traffic signs at various intersections and I simply flunked all the assignments because there was no way I could comfortably go stand at a street corner to do the assignments.
 
Wolf whistling or cat calling at passing beauties has been something that's always been around since most of us have been alive..

Most of us women have experienced it in our lives, and even some men..

In the UK it's about to be banned and classified as a criminal offence with sentences of up to 2 years in prison



A poll in the UK has 78 % disagreeing with the proposition to have it made illegal..

Do you agree , or disagree ?.. and why ?
Disagree, there is no crime here. Women like you and I have been the recipients of wolf whistles since we were teens, they can, and have been, easily ignored if needed. If there is vulgar or threatening comments or physical assault, that is a different story IMO.
 
Actually wolf whistling is a compliment. I've never seen any guy wolf whistle to someone heavily obese or elderly. Not that there's people who don't like that sort of action.

But frankly, it's such a rarity, I'm surprised England is considering a law about it. Got bigger first to fry then ticketing some imbeciles.
Going back to the dark ages when I was a young mother and a teacher of adolescent girls, it was my duty to escort them to the local public swimming pool for their Summer sport afternoon program. There was a building site along the route and I was subjected to 'compliments' about my looks that were actually at the benign end of the scale. I was very embarrassed and it did not help me maintain my authority with the class.

There is no way to counter such unwanted attention. If you give as good as you get it very soon gets very ugly. Silent martyrdom is all you have. If it is intended as a compliment, it doesn't feel like one.
 
What a bunch of "bull." In Canada, you kill your wife and you might get 3 years. Probably less if you got money and hire a sharp lawyer.

Two years for whistling at some "hot tomato." Might as well start locking up that groundhog for false weather forecasting or old men for wearing shorts when it's - 30 C.

Maybe we should lockup all those rich women pretending to be poor wearing jeans with holes all over them. I say give them 5 years of hard labour; washing clothes in the prison laundry would be "justice."

There just isn't any limit on stupidity.
 
Besides the problem with proving that it was a wolf whistle, rather than just someone whistling a song, which I've mentioned already, I wonder how, if it's a crowded street, anyone can tell or prove who it was that whistled? Unless everyone is walking around with video cameras or phones constantly pointed at everyone's face?

This is so unenforcable that it sounds like a joke.
 
Here is some further thinking: What about arresting all those women (especially so called celebrities) for sticking their boobs in everybody's face. We should also arrest all those strange young men playing their loud music in cars and trucks when they come to a red light. What about arresting politicians for not keeping their promises that they made when they were on the campaign trail? Senior citizens could be arrested for either driving or walking too slow. What about those young people starring at their smartphones and blocking others from doing their grocery shopping?

Sure, arrest everyone for anything. Even start arresting all the police. I can't imagine the intellectual level of people who write such silly "horse puppy" writing!
 

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