Police: Gyrating man arrested at Back Bay station for indecent assault and battery

By adamg on Mon, 06/08/2015 - 8:59am

Transit Police report arresting a Rhode Island man on a charge of indecent assault and battery for an incident Saturday night by the commuter-rail ticket booths at Back Bay station.

A woman told police she was at the counter around 8:30 p.m. when Bradford Bowe, 22, of Cumberland, RI, approached her:

Bowe made several inappropriate comments, of a sexual nature, to the victim and began to dance and gyrate his body. As the victim attempted to walk away from Bowe he Indecently Assaulted her.

Innocent, etc.

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Disrespectful pig. I've seen

By anon on Mon, 06/08/2015 - 9:05am.

Disrespectful pig. I've seen grown men in DTX make lewd comments toward women and when the women try to ignore them and walk away, these pigs become even more aggressive. Who raises these idiots? Disgusting.

yes indeed.

By Malcolm Tucker on Mon, 06/08/2015 - 10:11am.

That's the scary thing about being a woman: if some disgusting (whether morally, physically, or both) man starts catcalling her, and she tries to ignore it or brush it off, what if he escalates? What if he starts trying to dominate her physically? Should she be ready to strike back? Should she call the police? Should she just accept it as her lot, since she's a woman, and hope for the best? There's NO way to win. And it's a gamble, every time, with every creep: is this one just going to assault me verbally, or will he try something else?

tl;dr version smash the patriarchy

Woman...

By BostonDog on Mon, 06/08/2015 - 10:32am.

I agree with your comments but it's not like it's better for men, particularly those that are smaller in stature.

If someone decides to "start" something your choices are the same: Ignore them, confront them, call the cops, try to leave, etc.

Woman most certainly deal with more sexual/catcalling but there is no shortage of threatening jerks for both genders.

I understand your comments

By anon on Mon, 06/08/2015 - 12:12pm.

I understand your comments and respect and agree with most of what you said. But it is way worse for women. Way worse. Just look at the statistics.

And no, I am not trying to get into a pissing contest.

Fair Enough

By BostonDog on Mon, 06/08/2015 - 2:51pm.

I'm not debating that woman get harassed more in public. They do.

What annoys me is the attitude that somehow guy-on-guy harassment isn't common or isn't a big deal. Harassment sucks regardless of gender. It happens to both genders. "It's worse if you're a woman" isn't exactly comforting.

Again, I know it exists and

By anon on Mon, 06/08/2015 - 4:19pm.

Again, I know it exists and yes, any harassment of anyone no matter girl, guy, straight, gay, or trans sucks is a stain on our society.

But everyday I have to walk down the street preparing myself for a day of watching where I walk, making eye contact, not taking stairs, not parking too far away in a parking lot, making sure I stay in the lit part of the street, not running with headphones, not running at dusk, dawn or in the dark, checking the bathroom to ensure the stalls are actually empty, not trusting a policeman if pulled over and asking them instead to meet you at the closet police station. The list goes on and on. It is a daily threat is all I am saying. Maybe it is for you too.

true

By Malcolm Tucker on Mon, 06/08/2015 - 12:45pm.

Toxic masculinity hurts us all, in myriad ways.

I would ask, however: as a man, do you usually feel threatened in your day-to-day life? Not just if you're in a bad part of town, not just if you're surrounded by belligerent drunks, but every day? On the train? Walking down the street? At work or school? Do you view each stranger approaching you as a potential annoyance (at best) or threat (at almost-worst)? I don't mean to discredit or downplay any abuse you've suffered, if you have suffered these kinds of problems, but it's not often the case for men to live every day in some amount of fear. It is often the case for women: every day poses new risks. (And the risks increase for women of color and/or trans women.)

Anyway, we're all in this together, so let's all try to eradicate the more toxic social behaviors out there - whether they target men or women.

Your mileage may vary

By KellyJMF on Mon, 06/08/2015 - 5:40pm.

It's not a zero-sum game. Some men feel these things all the time too. Some women don't experience it at all. It doesn't take away from what some women experience if we acknowledge that harassment is not limited to a male harasser/female victim dynamic.

I don't think it's actually "often the case for women". (I'd love an academic citation if you have one.) I think for some women it is often or even always. Others rarely or even never. Some environments are definitely worse than others, some much better.

I prefer teaching people to reject harassment if it comes (either externally to the harasser or internally as individual circumstances warrant). I also believe in teaching people to be better bystanders and to act if possible.

I noticed at the end of high school

By jmeltzer on Mon, 06/08/2015 - 1:00pm.

that the jerks stopped beating up the geeks when they realized that they could beat up their girlfriends instead.

Just something.

Sounds like your high school sucked

By KellyJMF on Mon, 06/08/2015 - 5:42pm.

In my middle school, jerks stopped beating people up when their friends said knock it off instead of standing around and watching.

When violence ended

By Innocent abroad on Tue, 06/09/2015 - 1:06am.

This is an interesting and important comment, even if it isn't statistically true.

My Junior high and first two high schools, both in middle class areas, were full of continuous boy vs boy violence in the halls, the cafeteria, gym class, the showers.

The real fun guys slapped other guys in the gonads as they passed in the hall, all for the pleasure of watching them writhe on the floor in front of the girls. That was good because the victim was sexually humiliated, but punches in the arm with an extended knuckle or wet towel attacks in the shower after a gym class filled with personal fouls were daily events.

I don't think they stopped because they were beating their girlfriends but because they finally found outlets for all that sexual energy.

My Junior high and high school experience until senior year was like a movie about life in the prison yard. The fear of this violence made me nauseous every day.