He was found guilty of causing intentional harassment, alarm or distress - and was sentenced to 22 weeks in prison."
archive.ph/ShOqq
When news of this law first was brought to attention, feminists lied that it was merely a deterrent and not enforceable and implied that men that were worried about this law were probably guilty of harassment themselves.
A feminist was downplaying this and lying that this law is merely a deterrent and wouldn't result in enforcement of such accused men being imprisoned.
Now it has been revealed that a man that simply looked at a woman too long and blocked her path once was sentenced to 22 weeks in prison. There are about 4 weeks in a month and about 52 weeks in a year.
This means that for the simple 'crime' of looking at a woman too long and blocking her path once (something anyone that has ridden public transportation has probably had to deal with but knows that harsh punishments for such conduct only results in more homeless and mentally ill men being imprisoned and disproportionately punished)
a man has to spend close to half a year in prison.
Not merely a few days or a few weeks. Nearly half a year of their life down the drain.
Not only is this absurd, it shows the implications of how the slippery slope that will result from this. If this policy is accepted, it is very possible that men that simply happen to be accused of looking too long in a woman's direction and that hastily brush past them will be accused of sexual assault and fined or imprisoned for months.
There is already evidence that any kind of physical contact can result in such actions, as shown from the UK:
https://archive.ph/ytQLo
But this doesn't end in the UK, as long as clearly gendered 'harassment' laws like this are allowed to be enacted in any country.
And it puts not only homeless and mentally ill men in danger of being incarcerated, but also blind men.
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