When you put it like this, it sounds ok, but to be honest, I think in practice people tend to assume it's ok either way. Groups of guys often stare at, holler at, approach or otherwise sexually intimidate women on the street, and barely anybody lifts a finger to stop it. They say "boys will be boys", "men can't help it" or "she was drawing attention to herself" and everybody just seems to nod their head and agree with that. Men will even call women sexist for assuming the worst when they approach them, having absolutely no idea that women are basically told their whole lives that men "can't help themselves" and that factors like what they wear, what they say, what they do and how they carry themselves actually can be used against them if something DOES happen. I'm going off-topic a little, but my point is, people don't think anything bad of a group of guys approaching a woman. Men are barely ever discouraged from doing this, despite the fact that pretty much no woman has ever enjoyed this. :S

by Anonymous 12 years ago