My theory is that there are certain people who don’t think common decency or common sense apply to them, and that although this can be expressed in many ways, the most obvious way for women to witness it is when it’s some sexually immature, straight man doing just this. The sad thing is that the logical solution would seem to be to call them out on this – to cause embarrassment – but when you have a couple of men like this together, metaphorically waving their prowess about, that has the potential to draw violent repercussions.

It’s likely I’ll spend my life struggling to work this one out, as although the motivations may be different there are parallels to be drawn between sexism like this, and casual homo/transphobia. Somehow these ignorant people disregard personhood in favour of objectification, and thus feel there’d be no consequence to their action.