Woman cyclist gets her own back ...

[RoubaixCube]

At least she didnt pull out an angle grinder

 

[Smokin Joe]

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeand...revenge-on-catcallers-may-not-be-all-it-seems

 

[snorri]

[QUOTE 4693261, member: 9609"]so much anger in these run down inner city places, [/QUOTE]
Eastenders is not real life you know.

 

[Pat "5mph"]

Awright darlin' fancy a bunk up? Oi oi saveloi! Yer luck's in tonight lavvah! I got a traaaaynsit an everyfin!

I'm quite irresistible as you can tell.

Wot? 'This a chat up line?
Sorry, I only understand Scottish

 

[subaqua]

Alas, nothing ever remotely resembling romanticism, well, once a British Gas van man howled something that I could not understand ...

Was he from Govan then

 

[Globalti]

The "victim" was an actress? Well that would explain the silly scarf at least.

 

[Mugshot]

Well thngs are looking a little more fake now, although of course the agency hadn't a clue, they just got a shed load of publicity and stuff out of it.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-39051213

 

[Jody]

Well thngs are looking a little more fake now, although of course the agency hadn't a clue, they just got a shed load of publicity and stuff out of it.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-39051213

See post 104. That's before any of the papers put out its a fake

 

[Welsh wheels]

I used to work as a cycle courier in a busy city centre, often till late. I sometimes saw women having to put up with catcalling and unwanted attention. The video may have been fake, but I guess it's good if it draws attention to this.

 

[jefmcg]

See post 104. That's before any of the papers put out its a fake

That wasn't the piece of detective work you seem to feel it was. At that point it was either a fake video, or a genuine video that had been acquired or stolen by a viral marketing firm. There is nothing inherently suspicious about a video being shared by a marketing company.

Most viral videos end up in the hands of marketeers. That's how their creators get money from their popularity.

 

[S-Express]

http://www.cyclingweekly.co.uk/news...-mirror-exposed-as-factually-incorrect-314587

 

[winjim]

http://www.cyclingweekly.co.uk/news...-mirror-exposed-as-factually-incorrect-314587

Plenty of BS from the media company contradicting their statements from the last couple of days. Damage limitation I suppose.

I used to work as a cycle courier in a busy city centre, often till late. I sometimes saw women having to put up with catcalling and unwanted attention. The video may have been fake, but I guess it's good if it draws attention to this.

It just means that real allegations of sexism are more likely to be accused of fakery.

FWIW, I don't automatically distrust everything I see, but I don't automatically trust it either. I certainly don't trust anything put out on facebook by a media company calling itself something like "viralthread" without asking a lot of questions. Especially as my BS detector was going off just watching the thing for the first time.

 

[Jody]

That wasn't the piece of detective work you seem to feel it was. At that point it was either a fake video, or a genuine video that had been acquired or stolen by a viral marketing firm. There is nothing inherently suspicious about a video being shared by a marketing company.

Dress it however you wantbut it was fairly obvious that the video was fake before I looked into it.

 

[Jody]

(And I don't agree that this does anything positive to draw attention to the difficulties women often face with the unacceptable public behaviour of some men.)

Completely agree here.

 

[Jody]

OK, you get the prize.