Emmett Till - sexual harrasser.

[AK84]

@RivkahChaya

Wolf whistles have always been demeaning to women, even in the 1950s. It’s just that once upon a time, it was perfectly OK to demean women. Look at some magazine ads from the 1950s.

I don’t get whistled at anymore, but when I did, it was a long time before the OP was posted, and I considered it demeaning.

None of which changes the fact that Emmett Till got lynched because he was black. He didn’t get lynched because of anything he did. He was a northerner, and white people assumed for no reason that they were "uppity." Traveling to the south for black people who lived in the north was dicey in the Jim Crow era. There was actually a book published to help black people who lived in the north and wanted to travel south avoid special hazards.

:dubious:
If he had buggered her senseless*, it still would not have made what happened to him ok. No one can take the law into their own hands. If wolf whistling was a crime, the authorities should have been called, not vigilantes. Even if he was “uppity”:rolleyes:

(*been watching Four Weddings and a Funeral again

[DerekMichaels00]

this is the result of liberal self knot-tying. Emett Till is innocent, and whistling is NOT sexual harrassment.

[Bricker]

@DerekMichaels00

this is the result of liberal self knot-tying. Emett Till is innocent, and whistling is NOT sexual harrassment.

I yield to no one in my pursuit of liberal self-knot tying, but this is not that. Till acted, at the worst, rudely and insensitively, and was brutally murdered in response. Neither proposition is something liberals would dispute. Even the most ardent feminist SJW would not support murder as a remedy for catcalling.

[mhendo]

@Bricker

I yield to no one in my pursuit of liberal self-knot tying…

If DerekMichaels00 sometimes seems to pursue it more vigorously, it’s probably just that, when a person’s only tool is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.

He’s the master of bashing in non-existent nails.

[RivkahChaya]

@AK84

:dubious:
If he had buggered her senseless*, it still would not have made what happened to him ok. No one can take the law into their own hands. If wolf whistling was a crime, the authorities should have been called, not vigilantes. Even if he was “uppity”:rolleyes:

I totally agree, and if you read all my posts you’d see that.

@Bricker

I yield to no one in my pursuit of liberal self-knot tying, but this is not that. Till acted, at the worst, rudely and insensitively, and was brutally murdered in response. Neither proposition is something liberals would dispute. Even the most ardent feminist SJW would not support murder as a remedy for catcalling.

Exactly. And I am that most ardent of feminists. Although, I’m not sure what SJW means.

[Jackmannii]

Social Justice Warrior.

[Guinastasia]

Wait, Bryant actually LIED about what Till did? Well, I for one am shocked! Shocked I tell you! (I didn’t even know she was still alive – I figured she was roasting in hell with her bastard ex-husband)

@RivkahChaya

There’s nothing wrong, disloyal, or racist in saying that what Till did was maybe a little sleazy. That is hardly the same thing as saying he deserved what he got. The people who lynched him should all have done life terms in prison, and it is a crime that they did not.

Since Bryant admitted that she lied, he didn’t do anything, sleazy or otherwise. :dubious:

[AK84]

10 years ago, no idea if she is still alive.

IIRC, one of her sons (who are seen on her knee at the trial) died as well. Vietnam, I think?

[Amateur_Barbarian]

@AK84

FTR, I don’t thinkwolf whistling at a woman or anyone really is ok and it proper circumstances it absolutely can be and is sexual harassment.

@RivkahChaya

Wolf whistles have always been demeaning to women, even in the 1950s. It’s just that once upon a time, it was perfectly OK to demean women.
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None of which changes the fact that Emmett Till got lynched because he was black. He didn’t get lynched because of anything he did.

Till’s mother said that he had a stutter, and one of the ways he brought it under control so he could speak was to whistle. So he may well have “whistled at a white woman.”

Everything about the Till case makes my hair stand on end, details such as this even more so.

[Musicat]

Standing on the corner, watching all the girls go by.