Men are Guilty of Sexually Harassing Women Just by Sitting in the Same Room as Them, Says Police Chief
Women suffer sexual harassment simply by being in a room with men, a leading police chief has claimed. The Telegraph has the story.
Deputy Chief Constable Maggie Blyth, the officer in charge of tackling violence against women and girls, said sexism remained a major problem within many forces as well as in wider society.
Speaking on BBC Breakfast, Ms. Blyth – who was appointed to the national role in the wake of the murder of Sarah Everard – said all female officers would have been subject to some form of sexual harassment during their careers.
Asked if she had been subjected to sexist behaviour while serving in the police, she replied: “I think any woman in any profession will say that they’ve experienced sexual harassment absolutely everywhere. But I’ve been massively supported in my role. I wouldn’t be doing the job I’m in if I didn’t believe in policing.”
Asked to describe what incidents she had witnessed, she said: “This is not about me, but I think sexual harassment is about sitting in rooms where you have more male officers than women. Where you’re in a male-dominated environment for any woman – that’s always challenging.”
When a senior police officer implies that men are committing a crime merely by being in the same room as a woman, you know something has gone very wrong. Were there no sensible people available for this role, who could focus on actual crimes instead of the made up ones that police are so fond of nowadays? The push to cast all men as criminals and all women as victims has gone much too far and is doing no one any favours – least of all women who are actually victims of harassment and assault, as it trivialises the offence by mixing it up with ordinary interactions between the sexes.
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Is there any wonder we have stopped catching burglars..?
Catching burglars is no longer real policing Neil.
That would be harassing them, silly!
Burglary is very likely a male-dominated profession, hence, catching them would expose female police officers to unacceptable sexual harrasment.
Aha! Sex discrimination, we need a Government programme to get more women into burglary.
And Saville is still dead and never charged.
..and they have actively covered up rape gangs in towns and cities across the UK for 20 years, because, you know, it might be racism to ask questions. Yet we are asked to believe that men are so ‘toxic’ that their very presence is danger to women.
Savile? That’s how I remember it anyway).
“…something has gone very wrong. Were there no sensible people available for this role?”
Exactly Dr Jones – nail on the head and you beat me to it.
P45 for Maggie Blyth. Backdated.
I wonder if she spent time in schools as a youngster?
Apparently not.
All girls school most likely….
There really needs to be a distinction between someone’s actions and the perception of those actions by another. I am referring to actions that do not physically interfere with others.
When people seek remedy for their own feelings and reactions through modifying the behaviour of others, there will be no end to their discomfort.
Rather than encouraging people down this path, why not encourage them to develop inner strength and resilience?
This does not in any way absolve people from the responsibility of being considerate of others. Rather, the responsibility is enhanced by a wilfull adoption rather than an external imposition.
You are over-thinking this Mr Austin and by a long way.
Basically, I am just saying that we should help people grow a pair – whether testicles, ovaries, one of each or neither.
I don’t think she had any examples of sexual harassment when pressed so she made up this cobblers, and in so doing made a right plank of herself. And she can hardly speak for her fellow female officers either as, I’m sure even today, the police force is a male dominated profession, so if it bothered her that much she shouldn’t have pursued such a career. I’m not sure how many of my former male nursing colleagues felt like they were being sexually harassed merely by being outnumbered by us women in the staff room at break time…😆
This story is such a crock and it paints the police and professional women in particular in a bad light. I won’t click on the full story but this seems like a big fat nothing burger to me. Snowflakes quit whining or go home.
Next!
The dynamic there must be interesting. One the one side is the turning of a vocation of care into a bureaucratic and technical career, de-feminising it. On the other the inalienable fact that nursing is indeed a caring role and men are less empathetic.
Catching crooks is, at bottom, a merciless hunt. Women in that space are, and always will be, on male territory.
The extreme example would be a single male soldier in a platoon of females. He would be a standing rebuke to them all, a permanent harassment.
Positive discrimination is a train with no brakes.
It’s a ‘nothing burger’ to you because it doesn’t affect you. You appear completely disinterested in the calculated and sustained campaign of hatred and demonisation of men. The campaign has become so normalised and deeply entrenched in minds, particularly female minds, that society doesn’t even notice it. You yourself even asked some time ago if there was an equivalence of misogyny – yes, it’s called misandry, and we experience it on a daily basis. Women have held the victim card for a couple of decades to many, and it’s well past time that you started doing your bit to fight for true equality. That equality means also calling out the obvious discrimination and hatred shown towards men. Let’s play fair.
An alpha man protects the women in his life, not because they’re weak, but because they’re important.
As an example of how important women are in a society of equals is to contrast two island communities of 100 individuals.
The first island has 99 men & 1 woman on it, the second 99 women & 1 man.
Which island community will grow & thrive the quicker?
Without women, no society can grow, prosper or continue beyond one generation.
Men & women are equally important due to different biological characteristics whose roles are complementary.
When I look at the photo of this lady, I can’t help thinking that she exemplifies the type of woman who’s convinced that all men want sex with all women all of the time (and who thus believes that whatever men do must amount to sexual harrassment at some level). They’re seldom really attractive and a holy terror that’s best avoided.
“They’re seldom really attractive and a holy terror that’s best avoided.”
Exactly. She’s hardly likely to have ever had a queue of males pleading to show her their… cough…’etchings.’
Or as a buddy of mine just put it:
“You’d think she would be grateful for a little harassment every now and again.”
I suspect she may bat for the other team…
Maggie Blyth and her catastrophically stupid ideas are what comes out of society’s arse when ‘positive discrimination’ reigns in HR departments.
God help us ! Freaks everywhere !
Remarks like these prove that much of feminism and woke-ism is a form of paranoid schizophrenia. It’s like Andrea Dworkin’s insanity has infected the entire Establishment. If something malign isn’t there, they read it into being there. It’s difficult being a man now: if a man sits on a near-empty bus and minds his own business and there’s a woman on that bus, he’s looked upon as a threat. If he walks home from the bus and there’s a woman further down the street, he’s a potential stalker. Just being a man in the 2020s makes you ‘evil’. They spent years destroying alpha-male types by calling them ‘potential rapists’, wrapping them up in legalities about behaviour, then they want after quiet, awkward, shy men, calling them ‘incels’, using one mentally disturbed youngster in the USA – Elliot Rodger – who went on a shooting spree. The trans movement, further, is about perverts turning little boys into little girls. Yet at the same time, there’s an entire sub-genre of films where women in their 30s whinge about not having a boyfriend or a husband. When women routinely abuse and ridicule men, who constitute the majority of the victims of crime, accuse… Read more »
Your post is basically one big over-exaggeration and generalisation. You seem to have this obvious disconnect between how you percieve yourself and how others ( women, that is ) percieve you, so much so that you manage to paint yourself as a wounded victim of today’s society as a result.
I’m not saying you’re not entitled to your own feelings based on your personal experiences but this whole “Its difficult being a man now” thing is a bit “Woe is me” tbh.
“When women routinely abuse and ridicule men..” Could you tar us all with the same brush a bit more do you think? Had your post said anywhere “certain” or “some women” I wouldn’t have bothered responding but it sounds like you’re turning this whole thing into some ‘us versus them’ type of deal.
Maybe try laying off the generalisations and see people as individuals first as opposed to being defined by gender only. What sane woman is going to feel threatened by sharing a bus with a man??🤯 This whole butt-hurt position you inhabit is not conducive to a healthy attitude towards half of the planet’s population.
Your privilege allows you to enjoy a deep, deep sleep. You have no interest, of course, from waking from that slumber. You appear to be in a part of society that is hugely problematic – the narcissistic part that can only see their own problems. That part of society has grown and grown until it is the majority; that majority is destroying the very fabric of a well balanced society. What is born from that destruction is a society that brooks no dissent, that recoils at opposing opinions, that conforms, that is submissive. Welcome to the world you have helped to create.
So not only am I a man-hater ( because we all know how that’s a pre-requisite of being a feminist 🤦♀️) but I’m also a narcissist now. Mkay… You’re not exactly making it easy to sympathise with your feelings and opinions when all I detect is a strong, pervading undercurrent of bitterness in your posts. The vibe I get is that you wish to hold me to account for wrongdoings that I’m not guilty of. “Women have held the victim card for a couple of decades too many, and its well past time that you started doing your bit to fight for true equality.” Double-standards, much? You see, this is the bit where I could dredge up any number of examples from the entire history of the human race where females have constantly been abused, downtrodden or subjugated in some way by men, but that’d be too easy and I’m not one to harp on about the past. However, it does rather make your constant complaining about your injured male pride laughable and pale in comparison to the horrific abuses women/girls have had to endure over bygone centuries. “Welcome to the world you have helped create.” Could you be a… Read more »
I’m with you Mogs.
However, it’s a bit ridiculous to allow an utterly stupid and cretinous female copper, who clearly is a bloody menace to society and would be a danger to the ranks of the unemployed, to create a rather unseemly spat on here when the whole of our civilisation is under dire threat.
Having given it some thought now, I think its about time….to change my deodorant as obviously my pheromones are attracting the wrong sort of, erm…’man’.🙈😶
What you on about?
I’m on about the loopy responses from some rather threatened men, despite the fact my original post did not offer support for this numpty police woman nor condone the behaviour of the feminist, man-hating nutjob crew, who clearly do intimidate said ‘men’.
There’s some badly effected blokes in dire need of some talking therapies if you ask me. They have deep-seated issues around women it would appear.
Oh, thanks for the clarification. Whew!
It’s turned in to a proper lively thread and all because of a barker of a copper.
To harangue me for commenting on the rampant, destructive misandry now rife in our culture, as exemplified by that loony copper in the above story, is staggering. What she has said in her remarks is dangerous, as it will influence her police force’s behaviour towards men. The presumption of innocence is threatened. You haven’t grown up being shown videos telling men to sit in another part of a bus from a woman, if it’s near empty. Or being shown videos where men are assaulting women on a tube train to demonstrate how bad men are. Have a look around and you’ll see endless vilification of men in our culture, that our very existence is bad You automatically perceive women as victims, unquestioningly, and thus any comment that says that isn’t the case is ‘woe is me.’ The culture is rampantly anti-male. A woman can tell one lie and a man’s career is over. The opposite is not true. Our societies have been shaped by men AND women. Always. Legal inequalities of the past are gone and, even when they existed, women wielded considerable ‘soft power’. Universal suffrange took a while to arrive, but the majority of men couldn’t vote either… Read more »
“The sheer hatred of men in those words!”🤷♀️ OK Dom, you just keep telling yourself those stories so that they continue to reaffirm your belief. Women are bad ergo men get to play the put upon victim. Got it.
Going by what you’ve written, if that’s truly what you believe then I think it’s time you found a couch so that you can lay down and talk to some professional about your mother.
What sane woman is going to feel threatened by sharing a bus with a man?? Generally, I agree with you. The people making the most noise about this are not representative, they’re just making the most noise. But there’s an event of a couple of years ago I’d like to relate here: For some reason, I was invited to a barbecue at the house of my then-boss. I was introduced to a lot of his friends, did my best to be a polite no to the gay ones and ignored the sole woman that wasn’t presently coupled with someone. She was several years my senior and also lived in Reading. I managed to leave before I was completely drunk (always difficult for me, as I’m the exact opposite of a gregarious person and social stress begets heavy drinking) and made for the most dismal place in the world known to me, Maidenhead train stations, in order to get back home. On the platform, the aforementiond single woman from Reading was sitting on a bench and also waiting for a return train. As I knew she absolutely wouldn’t appreciate anything else, I kept ignoring her. Nevertheless, she was visibly nervous as… Read more »
My point about the bus is that when I was younger we were shown a video which actually demonstrated how if a woman is sitting near the front of the bus, a man should sit further back, in order not to be intimidating. Trouble is, it means you start second-guessing your behaviour the whole time. Being threatened is often implied to be a male-on-female phenomenon, when actually, the majority of threatening behaviour is from men towards other men. I come from a strong individualist philosophical background, so these collectivist groups that have overtaken our culture really annoy me. A police chief making the claims this one is should be out of a job immediately. Identity politics in policing immediately makes the guarantee of fair treatment impossible.
The so-called alpha male is nothing but a particularly obnoxius kind of man-child. I’ve encountered women walking home alone in deserted places during all times of the night and the usual effect was that we exchanged a smile as we’re both happy meeting someone sharing a similar fate, ie, still being a long walk from home in the night.
No.The alpha male is evolutionary. He exists in every species. You’re making the classic mistake of seeing all things as social, which is a common Marxist fraud.
And you’re making the classic mistake of confusing a re-shuffling of terms you don’t really undertstand with thinking. Someone disagrees! Must be an -ist! Whatever your most disliked -ism happens to be.
The phenomenon you’re probably thinking of exists in some mammals living in small herds, eg, deer, where stags fight each other for access to female animals. Human society (or that of other mammals or animals in general) has never been organized in this way because human children need a long time of care before they’re capable of making their own ways in the world and before the advent of so-called contraceptives, sex simply wasn’t a side-effect free pasttime except for very few, seriously rich people.
The natural social organisation of humans is in fairly small, long-term families and as there are about as many women as there are men, this implies that the by far overwhelming majority of humans live as couples possibly with children (and parents). Human society is also much more based on cooperation than on competition and in the larger scheme of things, most individual humans are pretty unimportant.
Everybody’s trying to snaffle those victim points – they can be traded in for favoured status to compensate for lack of ability. How much they can buy depends on one’s position on the intersectional ladder.
Look at the prosecution of that famous ex footballer the CPS is currently undertaking. The prosecution trotted out how he loaded the dishwasher as an example of how he was abusive. The “victim” was apparently attempting to pinch his phone. Even the cuckolded men in the jury weren’t stupid enough to send him down for realisation that they were finding all men guilty of everything whenever a women says so.
Well clearly Ms Blyth is never going to be a victim. She hit a lot of branches when she fell out the ugly tree.
🙂
How ridiculous. As a woman, I find being in male-dominated environments quite refreshing – a nice change to being around women as men and women are different. I worked for the police once and most of the time I was the only woman around. The police officers treated me like a younger sister – it was like having all these older brothers – and I loved it. Was one of the most fun jobs I’ve ever had.
Thanks for that. 👍
I’m female and, certainly when I was younger, quite attractive. I’ve worked in male-dominated sectors all my life and only once was I “sexually harassed” by a pat on the bottom. I quietly told the culprit that if he ever did it again the whole department would hear me tell him to get his hand off my ar$e.
This idiotic policewoman needs to grow up and stop pretending that all women are weak, passive victims and all men are sexual predators. Neither is true.
Thank you. Well said! 🙂
So if 5 women are sitting in a room along with 6 men all minding their own business, which of those 6 is guilty of sexual harassment?
Ask her to define a woman.
She won’t be able to please the LGBTQRSTU+ sect of the enemy within and the feminists at the same time.
Increasingly, the LGB community are looking to separate themselves from the TQIA+ community that has hijacked their movement. Identity politics is a cancer in our society, emphasising division where there was little or none before. It’s so weird that we live in a world where defining the objective truth that a woman is a human female is now a sackable offence. Objective reality built the West and postmodern denial of it is undermining our very foundations.
She needs a right good stiff …. talking to !
Could you oblige, Freddy and take one for the team, as the saying goes?