Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!
Illegal, sexist sign on Green Lanes - new sandwich bar
Not only is this offensive and condescending to women, but offensive and discriminatory against men. I spoke to someone who said he was in charge at the shop and was basically laughed at.
Please can every man who reads this ring them and apply for the job? There's also solicitors a few doors up who will help you sue them.
In all seriousness though, this and the leering and catcalling on the Harringay part of Green Lanes must make it the most sexist street in Britain. It's 2015, about time this was stamped out for good.
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Permalink Reply by Ruth on
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Thanks Michael. I'm aware of that Act and how it's meant to work but as you say, it's up to individuals a lot of the time to make complaints which leads to a lot of abuses continuing. Few people wish to take the time/make the effort to do so. I ask myself, would I do so unless I was being denied a job or a home? Seems not as I've fumed quietly about such signs but not reported one of them. Also there would be the fear of backlash possible due to making a complaint.
This is a weakness of the law. Lack of enforcement. Just like with many others (talking on mobiles while driving, littering, fly dumping, illegal extensions to buildings, etc….. )
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Permalink Reply by rosyrose on
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This is common practice on the Lanes, and always makes my stomach clench a little. But the leering and catcalling and anti-social behaviour are the worst. It's not discussed much on here, but the Green Lanes area can feel very unsafe for a lone woman after dark. The other day I got off the bus at 10pm and turned into my Gardens Road to find a man pissing in the street. Not up against the wall, not even against a car - just standing in the middle of the pavement waving his dong around. When I told him what I thought about that, I got a mouthful of sexist abuse, of course, including a threat to follow to me to my home. It's the other side of "vibrancy" and a "24 hour culture".
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The parts of our streets nearest to the Lanes are used for p**sing, throwing away unwanted food and paraphernalia of a sexual nature and all sorts. I find it very annoying rather than threatening. The debris is so horrible day and night.
But uncivilized men waving their dongs and giving out sexist abuse, threatening too, should be dealt with. You probably didn't feel like calling the police Rosyrose as probably they wouldn't have done much.
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Permalink Reply by Junior Bennett on
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Now that is unacceptable...it's odd because the ladders have really nice properties on them but Green Lanes has always had an air of lawlessness.
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Permalink Reply by Issy on
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That's awful rosyrose. Its sexual harassment and no-one should have to experience that.
You could also report it by quick email to Harringay Safer Neighbourhoods. I've done similar in the past and at least gotten a response so I know its on their radar. http://content.met.police.uk/Team/Haringey/Harringay
This unacceptable behaviour shouldn't go unchecked.
The little shop sign is discrimination. I won't be supporting that business.
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I must make of note of this link so I can start reporting things. the more we do, the more it's on their radar as you say and something, maybe, will be done about it.
People keep doing this stuff because they can at the end of the day with no come-back on them. Like the time I confronted someone from a shop on Green lanes about dropping his empty coffee cup on the street and got all hell back from him.
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Did you pick up the litter after the person refused? I mean, you did actually care about the litter and not the person dropping it right?
If you really want to effect change one must become the change but that is far more difficult to do than having a go ar someone (even though it is actually more effective).
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Permalink Reply by Lauren on
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I'm assuming she was concerned by the behaviour and so challenged it. Not the individual. I would have done the same.
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I've also asked shopkeepers to stop sweeping their floors out into the pavement and got abuse in return and told it's a Turkish street, pretty much the same reply when I asked one proprietor to curb his sexist comments and leering.
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I was cat-called from a car by a man sat in a traffic jam on Pemberton. I responded with "I'm sorry, do I know you?" So he proceeded to tell me what he wanted to do to me sexually. I basically told him his behaviour wasn't on, that women don't like being shouted at by strange men. At which point he started insulting me and got out of his car and told me "jog on you fat c*unt" and was shoe'ing me off up the street. I am not a timid person so called him a disgusting misogynist ars*hole and an embarrassment to all men and he eventually got back in his car and he drove off like a maniac. Hopefully he will think twice next time. There's also a man who sometimes stands near Sue Ryder of a morning and said "good morning gorgeous" to me on a few occasions. I don't know him and he has a creepy, leery appearance so I just ignored him. After a few days he asked me what my problem was. I explained I don't want to be sexually harassed by him in the street on my way to work. He responded that he was only paying me a compliment. I said it wasn't, it was creepy and unwanted. Then he got abusive and chased me into the road, where I could have been run over. I'm sick of it. There's rarely a day goes by that it doesn't happen on Green Lanes and environs, but it rarely happens anywhere else. I've also seen the public pissing guy a few times. I'm pretty sure it is the same one.
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But it is indisputable that women make better sandwiches than men so I think they've got it right.
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