Religious and cultural background absolutelty matter because they are explantory factors for behavior. Period. You can isolate these things as causal factors without being a racist, Islamophobic asshole, but ignoring the fact that numerous women were sexually assaulted by a specific group of men because that fact…

But that has been true since the dawn of history, and the trend in rapes is going down. So it’s silly to ignore any spike in rape or sexual assault just because “it’s men duhhh” because you are ignoring an anomaly that could be prevented in the future.

I also live in Vienna and stay away from those districts for the reasons you have mentioned.

Being more worried about the political implications of the fact that the men perpetrating these attacks were Arab/North African, than about the fact that hundreds of these men got organised and went out with the specific intent of attacking women. People will be too afraid to discuss the cultural aspect because they…

I agree. I live in Austria and have never felt so uncomrfotable walking through certain areas of the city of Vienna, which are typically migrant neighbourhoods of Middle eastern background. It is both a migrant and a male issue, since migrants are taking with them extremely dangerous patriarchal attitudes, not…

It’s not an immigration issue OR a male issue.

The situation with immigration is a little more fluid in the EU. My fiancé is not cat called, but threatened with brutal rape and murder on public transit in her city of Antwerp, Belgium daily. All of the offenders are North African/Arab. These guys are not refugees, but they are guys that did immigrate and they…

Yup. I’m Latin American and I feel the same about my culture. It IS more macho and I DO experience more sexism and street harassment there than in Europe and the US or Canada.

I tell you I come from the middle east, and when someone tells me that our culture is not more macho blabla I feel SO disrespected, because I feel treated like a small child that can’t take criticism. Taking my culture seriously means judging it according to the same standards everyone else is judged. My mom, my…

This is true. When I was living in Europe, the worst street harassment I ever experienced was from Middle Eastern, Arab and African men. I wish it weren’t the case but it’s true.

I don’t think most right wing people think that at all. I think that is a straw man and you know it.

It IS an immigration issue. When I get hit on in a really disrespectful way here in western europe, it is almost always from men from the middle east or nothern africa. Their culture IS more patriarchal - denying that is just positive racism. I am sorry, I grew up in a middle eastern family, I know the culture at…