'Violated, Sick, Uncomfortable': 10 Women On Being Sent Unsolicited Dick Pics

[phands]

It never seems to end......

Isabella Smith had only been a student at the University of Birmingham for a couple of weeks when she received unsolicited ‘dick pics’ on her iPhone. Sitting in a business lecture on October 19, surrounded by her peers, the 20-year-old fresher was sent a stream of sexual images via AirDrop – the WiFi and Bluetooth enabled feature that allows the transfer of files between anyone within 30 feet of each other. She knew the sender was likely in the same room as her.


“It made me feel sick and uncomfortable,” she tells HuffPost UK. After declining the request to accept the images, she also realised there was little she could do to trace the perpetrator. “I’ve heard of this happening to people but I never thought it would happen in a lecture hall. That is meant to be a safe place.”


When the same thing happened to Jess Shepherd, 28, in April this year, she was sitting outside a bar in Manchester’s Northern Quarter with a group of her work colleagues at around 2pm in the afternoon. Like Isabella, she also received a notification asking her to receive intimate pictures – she didn’t open it.

There's a LOT more at https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/en...cec723e4b0d38b587baa52?utm_hp_ref=uk-homepage

 

[TSwizzle]

Why not secure her device? If she has an open AirDrop (presumably some Apple file transfer thing?) she only has herself to blame.

Behave yourself. What else must women do to stay safe from harassment ?

There is another article on this;

So stop telling me to turn my AirDrop off and let me get back to my dog pictures.

These creeps need to be prosecuted and put on the sex offenders register.

 

[starwater]

Why was she looking at her phone during a lecture that she paid good tuition money for? She should have been paying attention to the lecture and taking notes FFS.

 

[Jarhyn]

Why was she looking at her phone during a lecture that she paid good tuition money for? She should have been paying attention to the lecture and taking notes FFS.

Because lectures are fucking boring and slow, and anyone with more than 2 brain cells to rub together is going to spend some portion of ANY lecture class faffing about because the professor needs to teach to those below the mean.

Edit: do you have any other unrelated sidetrack questions? Or are you done now?

 

[prideandfall]

Why was she looking at her phone during a lecture that she paid good tuition money for? She should have been paying attention to the lecture and taking notes FFS.

Because lectures are fucking boring and slow, and anyone with more than 2 brain cells to rub together is going to spend some portion of ANY lecture class faffing about because the professor needs to teach to those below the mean.

Edit: do you have any other unrelated sidetrack questions? Or are you done now?

could also have been taking notes on her phone.

 

[Angry Floof]

Why was she looking at her phone during a lecture that she paid good tuition money for? She should have been paying attention to the lecture and taking notes FFS.

Because lectures are fucking boring and slow, and anyone with more than 2 brain cells to rub together is going to spend some portion of ANY lecture class faffing about because the professor needs to teach to those below the mean.

Edit: do you have any other unrelated sidetrack questions? Or are you done now?

Wow. Of all the dickish shit you might yell at people for in threads like this, you pick this one?

 

[Don2 (Don1 Revised)]

Why was she looking at her phone during a lecture that she paid good tuition money for? She should have been paying attention to the lecture and taking notes FFS.

Some people put their phone on vibrate in case of emergency contact.

 

[Tigers!]

Speaking as a man what sort of evil, twisted fellow gets his jollies sending such pictures, unsolicited, to unsuspecting females?

 

[GenesisNemesis]

Uh? What about the dick pics? Why's no one asking why a guy sent dick pics? Instead it's "why was she looking at her phone"?

 

[laughing dog]

Uh? What about the dick pics? Why's no one asking why a guy sent dick pics? Instead it's "why was she looking at her phone"?

Obviously, the guy was exercising his freedom of expression.

 

[Elixir]

Uh? What about the dick pics? Why's no one asking why a guy sent dick pics? Instead it's "why was she looking at her phone"?

Obviously, the guy was exercising his freedom of expression.

Yah, ditto the MAGAbomber. Nobody died in either case, right?

 

[RVonse]

Uh? What about the dick pics? Why's no one asking why a guy sent dick pics? Instead it's "why was she looking at her phone"?

Obviously, the guy was exercising his freedom of expression.

Yah, ditto the MAGAbomber. Nobody died in either case, right?

The mail bomber actually caused some trouble. I put looking at unsolicited dick pictures at the same level of grief as all the unsolicited telemarketing that wastes my time answering the phone. I do not ask for any of it nor want any of it. But my life wont end because of it either.

 

[phands]

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I put looking at unsolicited dick pictures at the same level of grief as all the unsolicited telemarketing that wastes my time answering the phone. I do not ask for any of it nor want any of it. But my life wont end because of it either.

As usual, you're just wrong, and you put your own twisted views above those of others. Getting unsolicited dick picks is nowhere near the innocuous but annoying telemarketing. In fact, to women already traumatized by the corrosive culture that allows men to get away with this awful behavour, this can push them over the edge. Some days, I'm ashamed to be a man, when I hear sentiments like yours. Hang your head in shame.

 

[GenesisNemesis]

Yah, ditto the MAGAbomber. Nobody died in either case, right?

The mail bomber actually caused some trouble. I put looking at unsolicited dick pictures at the same level of grief as all the unsolicited telemarketing that wastes my time answering the phone. I do not ask for any of it nor want any of it. But my life wont end because of it either.

Except a woman's life could end because of it, because the person sending dick pics could be a stalker.

 

[Angra Mainyu]

Why not secure her device? If she has an open AirDrop (presumably some Apple file transfer thing?) she only has herself to blame.

Behave yourself. What else must women do to stay safe from harassment ?

There is another article on this;

So stop telling me to turn my AirDrop off and let me get back to my dog pictures.

These creeps need to be prosecuted and put on the sex offenders register.

Where is the post you're quoting?

 

[TSwizzle]

Why not secure her device? If she has an open AirDrop (presumably some Apple file transfer thing?) she only has herself to blame.

Behave yourself. What else must women do to stay safe from harassment ?

There is another article on this;

So stop telling me to turn my AirDrop off and let me get back to my dog pictures.

These creeps need to be prosecuted and put on the sex offenders register.

Where is the post you're quoting?

Deleted because Derec is not in the clique. Neither am I hence my post was also removed. C’est la vie.

 

[RavenSky]

Why not secure her device? If she has an open AirDrop (presumably some Apple file transfer thing?) she only has herself to blame.

Behave yourself. What else must women do to stay safe from harassment ?

There is another article on this;

So stop telling me to turn my AirDrop off and let me get back to my dog pictures.

These creeps need to be prosecuted and put on the sex offenders register.

Difficult to tell if you are being serious or sarcastic, but from the article you linked:

Straight from the off, the discussion born from the thread didn't ask why this pervert felt such a degree of male entitlement that he had no qualms in imposing 120 photographs of his genitals on a stranger who was just commuting home from work.

No, instead it neatly circled around my privacy settings and why my AirDrop had been turned on, and left on, in the first place.

But this is simply not the conversation we should be having here.

She is correct.

 

[RavenSky]

The mail bomber actually caused some trouble. I put looking at unsolicited dick pictures at the same level of grief as all the unsolicited telemarketing that wastes my time answering the phone. I do not ask for any of it nor want any of it. But my life wont end because of it either.

Or, if you are a woman, your life just might end.

In May 2018, PR consultant Chloe Matthbury, from Leeds, was taking her usual train home, surrounded by hundreds of other commuters in a packed carriage, when she received a photograph of herself via AirDrop. The picture showed the 28-year-old sitting on the train, with a circle hand-drawn around her, as to identify her from other passengers. This picture was instantly followed by more images.

“I felt pretty vulnerable for the rest of my trip and it was scary not knowing who it was but that they might be looking at me or potentially follow me off the train,” says Matthbury.

Do you think that flashers and peeping toms should also be treated as perfectly legal annoyances?

 

[Loren Pechtel]

I think the real issue is why our society is so messed up that people have that sort of reaction to a dick pic.

Dick pics like this simply prove the sender is a dick.

 

[Angry Floof]

I think the real issue is why our society is so messed up that people have that sort of reaction to a dick pic.

Dick pics like this simply prove the sender is a dick.

Yep. No need to think any further than that.