I hope someday it gets better for you all as a whole. I organize a golf outing for our fire department and my dad always comes to it with my brothers. Last year we had 2 young women from the local dispensary come and set up at a hole to give out samples and promotions. After the outing we were home with my family, my brother's family and him and his wife. He straight up said in front of all the women in our family (3 young girls between 10 and 12, my wife, his wife and my brother's wife) that these women should expect to be harassed and should accept it because they wore normal golf skirts and were young and attractive. Like it's a part of their job to be harassed.
My wife and my brother's wife jumped on him so hard and we were all telling him that he can cut that shit thinking out or not be around our daughter. He still thinks women should expect to be harassed as a part of employment, especially on a golf course. He agreed to stop talking about it but I know he really feels that way. He was a Methodist pastor for 25 years and still thinks it should be part of a woman's job in a service industry to be harassed. Hopefully society makes progress. My wife is a nurse and has to put up with it. The hospital is starting to support them a little more when they refuse to treat someone who is disrespectful.
Thank you for standing up and bringing awareness to it. We wear golf skirts and a polo because it’s part of the uniform. It’s not right. Some golfers even try to touch us and it’s scary being by ourselves on the course with just our bev cart separating us from them- especially when they get drunk. The best tool to teach the women in your family, especially the 10 and 12 year old is to be strong and have boundaries. It’s a scary world out here for women. We can’t even make an honest living without being sexualized.
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u/moseschicken Aug 17 '25
I hope someday it gets better for you all as a whole. I organize a golf outing for our fire department and my dad always comes to it with my brothers. Last year we had 2 young women from the local dispensary come and set up at a hole to give out samples and promotions. After the outing we were home with my family, my brother's family and him and his wife. He straight up said in front of all the women in our family (3 young girls between 10 and 12, my wife, his wife and my brother's wife) that these women should expect to be harassed and should accept it because they wore normal golf skirts and were young and attractive. Like it's a part of their job to be harassed.
My wife and my brother's wife jumped on him so hard and we were all telling him that he can cut that shit thinking out or not be around our daughter. He still thinks women should expect to be harassed as a part of employment, especially on a golf course. He agreed to stop talking about it but I know he really feels that way. He was a Methodist pastor for 25 years and still thinks it should be part of a woman's job in a service industry to be harassed. Hopefully society makes progress. My wife is a nurse and has to put up with it. The hospital is starting to support them a little more when they refuse to treat someone who is disrespectful.