Survey shows more than half of women being sexually harassed during Songkran

By Thai PBS

 

 

A random survey on sexual harassment against women during Songkran festival last year shows that 59.3 percent of the 1,650 female respondents admitted that they used to be sexually harassed by male revelers in different ways.

 

Nearly 34 percent admitted they were deliberately touched on hands or arms or sexually stared; 18 percent said their bodies were touched or their genitals touched; others felt they were unsafe, harassed by drunken revelers or were forced to drink alcohol.

 

The survey was conducted by the Women and Men Progressive Movement Foundation on 1,650 women in Bangkok. Of all the women who were sexually harassed during Songkran festival last year, only one-fourths of them took their cases to the police, according to the survey which was released by the foundation earlier this week.

 

Full story: http://englishnews.thaipbs.or.th/survey-shows-half-women-sexually-harassed-songkran/

 

-- © Copyright Thai PBS 2018-04-06

Stay at home.

So the anti-male agenda has reached Thailand - media campaigns that promote hypersentivity and victimhood, witchhunts that conflate mere attention with harrassment, and harrassment with assault. Now the media will be actively seeking hapless men who didn't even know they'd crossed a line, because sex is always news.

 

Focus the campaign on stamping out real sexual assault, not the ordinary cut-and-thrust of life. It's necessary to interact with some degree of roughness or society will become weak and sickly. Millennials are already having nervous breakdowns en masse because they've been too coddled.

Edited April 6, 20188 yr by CharlesSwann

Obviously, the Women and Men's Progressive Movement Foundation has an agenda, and that's not necessarily a bad thing, but conducting a survey like this, using a definition of sexual harrassment so broad and subjective, rather than helping highlight the undoubtedly real problem, dilutes it, IMHO. OK, they'll be patting each other on the back on the results (or maybe not, given it's defined as sexual harrassment), but is it going to convert the unconverted, I think not.

 

 

Touching arms, hands, and staring at, is construed as harassment, that must rope in well over half the male population then?

 

2 hours ago, webfact said:

"........deliberately touched on hands or arms or sexually stared...."

Fairly loose definitions of sexual harassment I would have thought. Perhaps the touching on arms and hands was accidental in the melee of the water revelry. And maybe they were being stared at because they were astonishingly ugly or behaving stupidly. 

1 hour ago, Cadbury said:

Fairly loose definitions of sexual harassment I would have thought. Perhaps the touching on arms and hands was accidental in the melee of the water revelry. And maybe they were being stared at because they were astonishingly ugly or behaving stupidly. 

Or wearing very revealing clothes, such as shorts that cut in to the crotch and show half their bum, tops that shown a large amount of cleavave.  The (majority of) males in nearly all species are the sexual predetors and the females, more often than not, try to look as appealing as possible to them.  Certainly men should respect women with, within reason "no touch policy", unless invited or condoned.  But I am sorry folks, it's what makes the World go round and if there is no sex, there is no World!

Being forced to drink alcohol is sexual abuse? Who knew?

what's wrong with the other half ?

4 hours ago, Cadbury said:

Fairly loose definitions of sexual harassment I would have thought. Perhaps the touching on arms and hands was accidental in the melee of the water revelry. And maybe they were being stared at because they were astonishingly ugly or behaving stupidly. 

or half naked, don't stare at me I'm not that kind of girl, I only dress like one.

Edited April 6, 20188 yr by soalbundy

I just like looking at the T shirts with no bras on and the water is cold.

"Sexually stared". The survey was probably headed by some <offensive comment removed> who lacks this sort of attention and brainwashed in her social studies course. Thailand with all it's problems doesn't need this Western regressive indoctrination (well no one does, but people put up with it the West because life is more cosy, better chance of making a good living). The average Thai already has enough BS to worry about.

Edited April 6, 20188 yr by metisdead
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Troll posts have been removed as well. 

Dress modestly and you are unlikely to be groped. Dress provocatively however, and it's open season for drunken Thai men (and Westerners in places like Pattaya and Patong) to get carried, away whilst revelling in the fun.

You decide girls

Not just during Songkran....all the time.

Songkran just another excuse for thais not to work and get drunk for a week Half would not even know what Songkran is suppose to be. Glad i am out of the  country this week Pack of idiots ruling the streets watched by an ineffective police force who probably join in

13 hours ago, maxcorrigan said:

Touching arms, hands, and staring at, is construed as harassment, that must rope in well over half the male population then?

 

thats kinda the point

 

I just want to know when they are going to do a survey on the percentage of male tourists

sexually assaulted (same broad definition) as they walk through a beer bar complex, go-go bar,

or on walking street. 

12 hours ago, soalbundy said:

what's wrong with the other half ?

They were sexually harassing the men, touching them on the elbow, and staring at their crotches.

I find this type of rampant sexism appalling. It is time to level the playing field in gender disparity. I have participated in Songkran almost every year that I have been in Thailand and have NOT ONCE been sexually harrassed by the ladies. I will be filing a complaint with the authorities!

8 hours ago, Dexlowe said:

They were sexually harassing the men, touching them on the elbow, and staring at their crotches.

 

8 hours ago, Ulic said:

I just want to know when they are going to do a survey on the percentage of male tourists

sexually assaulted (same broad definition) as they walk through a beer bar complex, go-go bar,

or on walking street. 

True , lost count the amount of times I have had my genitals felt by bar girls , if only I was prepared for it to give a better impression . 

On 4/5/2018 at 11:04 PM, webfact said:

Nearly 34 percent admitted they were deliberately touched on hands or arms or sexually stared; 18 percent said their bodies were touched or their genitals touched; others felt they were unsafe, harassed by drunken revelers or were forced to drink alcohol.

So, 18% were actually harassed. Headline - nonsense.

Touched on hands or arms? Seriously?

Sexually stared?! OMG. The horror.

The so-called "foundation" may be dismissed.

The #metoo feminist denial of complicity as gone totally out of control.

 

Dressing provocatively, in a way you might see in a gogo bar is an indication of sexual availability.

Wearing a wet T-shirt with no bra and wet tight high cut shorts is provocative, and wimin know it is.

If you look like a hooker and act like a hooker are you a duck, or a hooker?

Quite what the parameters are for touching in the midst of the Songkran parties needs to be made clear.

If men get their nuts squeezed they don't complain unless it's a transvestite.

A "goose"  (bum squeeze sort of) or casual brush to see if the alluring looks are more than a pric# tease is now taboo.

 

Girls; full jeans, a bra and no "come on" glances will stop the problem but keep the fun.

We are all adults and know the signals.

This is back to the Garden of Eden.

If sexual interaction is to be forbidden then the human race will die off.

(Although it needs to stop the exponential birth rate anyway.)

 

 

 

 

 

On 6/4/2018 at 7:59 PM, soalbundy said:

what's wrong with the other half ?

They are over 25 and at home.

The #metoo feminist denial of complicity as gone totally out of control.
 
Dressing provocatively, in a way you might see in a gogo bar is an indication of sexual availability.
Wearing a wet T-shirt with no bra and wet tight high cut shorts is provocative, and wimin know it is.
If you look like a hooker and act like a hooker are you a duck, or a hooker?
Quite what the parameters are for touching in the midst of the Songkran parties needs to be made clear.
If men get their nuts squeezed they don't complain unless it's a transvestite.
A "goose"  (bum squeeze sort of) or casual brush to see if the alluring looks are more than a pric# tease is now taboo.
 
Girls; full jeans, a bra and no "come on" glances will stop the problem but keep the fun.
We are all adults and know the signals.
This is back to the Garden of Eden.
If sexual interaction is to be forbidden then the human race will die off.
(Although it needs to stop the exponential birth rate anyway.)
 

 
 
 
 

Yeah they all want to wear "full jeans" and get soaked.


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