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Originally Posted by Livia

I have to say there's been a massive improvement from builders, road workers etc. in the last decade or so. It used to be embarrassing to walk past them but things have changed a lot... that's not to say it doesn't still happen.

I do think there are changes very much coming through the younger generation these days, the boys at my daughter's school (11/12 year olds now) can still be as bad as ever but honestly the girls seem to rule that class with an iron fist . They rally round fast when there's "Inappropriateness" from the boys and it gets nipped in the bud very quickly, which "in my day" frankly just didn't happen.

I think another big change these days is actually just the general awareness that it's "ok to not be ok with it" for men, i.e. the peer pressure element. I think there have always been plenty who didn't like it but in environments like that (building sites) felt peer pressure to join in or at least not to say anything, whereas now people are much more confident about saying "cut it out lads".