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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(108,498 posts)
Sat Jan 20, 2018, 04:34 PM Jan 2018

Helen Mirren Says Men Would Expose Themselves to Her Once a Week in Her 20s

Helen Mirren is opening up about her past history with sexual harassment.

In a preview of the Oscar winner’s Sunday Today show interview, the 72-year-old actress reveals to Willie Geist that although she never experienced sexual harassment in Hollywood, when she was younger, men would expose themselves to her “about once a week.”

“I had never experienced that…in Hollywood,” Mirren explained. “Because [when] I came to Hollywood, I was in my 30s. I was too old. It doesn’t happen to you unless you’re very young.”

But she went on to reveal that “when I was in between 16 and 23, 24 — men would expose themselves to me often, I would say about once a week…on the subway, on the tube, on the bus, walking down a road and it was like, ‘Ugh.’”

She also added that she didn’t understand why men did that because “It’s not like you’re gonna go, ‘Oh my god, that’s the most beautiful thing I’ve ever seen. It’s the opposite. It’s horror.”

https://www.msn.com/en-us/movies/celebrity/helen-mirren-says-men-would-expose-themselves-to-her-once-a-week-in-her-20s/ar-AAuRSBQ?ocid=spartandhp&ffid=gz

I have to say as a guy I've never considered exposing myself like that. If I know anyone who has they haven't fessed up to such.

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Helen Mirren Says Men Would Expose Themselves to Her Once a Week in Her 20s (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Jan 2018 OP
It's like we keep saying: We women don't want to see a guy's junk The Velveteen Ocelot Jan 2018 #1
The impulse to do that has never entered my head. MineralMan Jan 2018 #3
That has to be it. LiberalFighter Jan 2018 #14
Mentally ill, disturbed, drunk or high guys do this and apparently there are a number of them. democratisphere Jan 2018 #4
Recent expansion of these discussions have opened my eyes Bradical79 Jan 2018 #5
++++++ uppityperson Jan 2018 #6
we also do not envy their junk Skittles Jan 2018 #7
LOL! lunatica Jan 2018 #20
I'll never understand it either Bradical79 Jan 2018 #2
There is a trend in Hollywood that I'm ready to call out. Baitball Blogger Jan 2018 #8
Did you mean to say sexiest in the last line? Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Jan 2018 #9
YES! Baitball Blogger Jan 2018 #11
Um what? What have you been watching, lol. MrsCoffee Jan 2018 #10
I avert my gaze. Baitball Blogger Jan 2018 #12
Lol! MrsCoffee Jan 2018 #13
And is that really acting? LiberalFighter Jan 2018 #15
Rarely is it relevant to the plot. Baitball Blogger Jan 2018 #22
Once on a highway WhiteTara Jan 2018 #16
I had an experience with a creep on the road too womanofthehills Jan 2018 #21
Didn't you really feel vulnerable? WhiteTara Jan 2018 #23
One of the first actresses I saw nude in a film was Helen Mirren .... kwassa Jan 2018 #17
From a guy's perspective ... left-of-center2012 Jan 2018 #18
That didnt happen to me, tavernier Jan 2018 #19
If I was ever fortunate enough to find myself in Helen Mirren's presence, Aristus Jan 2018 #24

The Velveteen Ocelot

(116,015 posts)
1. It's like we keep saying: We women don't want to see a guy's junk
Sat Jan 20, 2018, 04:40 PM
Jan 2018

unless we are actually involved in some kind of consensual relationship with him. We do not want to see a total stranger pull up in his car and wave his wiener at us at a bus stop (that happened to me) or on a busy downtown sidewalk first thing in the morning (or ever) (that also happened to me). It's gross and it does not impress us or make us want to have sex with that person. We think he's a weirdo and a creep and we want him to go away. I do not understand why some guys - a lot of them, actually - do this.

MineralMan

(146,354 posts)
3. The impulse to do that has never entered my head.
Sat Jan 20, 2018, 04:59 PM
Jan 2018

I can't even imagine doing such a thing. Something must be broken in some people.

LiberalFighter

(51,393 posts)
14. That has to be it.
Sat Jan 20, 2018, 05:50 PM
Jan 2018

And the same would apply to men wanting to see women naked. Sure fine. But not in public or even against their will.

democratisphere

(17,235 posts)
4. Mentally ill, disturbed, drunk or high guys do this and apparently there are a number of them.
Sat Jan 20, 2018, 04:59 PM
Jan 2018

Some men are just warped idiots; even our illegitimate so-called president.

 

Bradical79

(4,490 posts)
5. Recent expansion of these discussions have opened my eyes
Sat Jan 20, 2018, 05:04 PM
Jan 2018

I honestly had no idea how frequent some of this behaviour was. It makes me wonder about some of my firends and co-workers.

Skittles

(153,316 posts)
7. we also do not envy their junk
Sat Jan 20, 2018, 05:16 PM
Jan 2018

as one lady comic put it, Penis Envy? Why would we envy something that looks like a dead chicken's neck and can be out-performed by a couple of double A batteries?

 

Bradical79

(4,490 posts)
2. I'll never understand it either
Sat Jan 20, 2018, 04:58 PM
Jan 2018

Or the Louis CK thing. Like... why? At no point would I think randomly exposing myself to some woman would work out in my favor, even if that were my kink.

Baitball Blogger

(46,785 posts)
8. There is a trend in Hollywood that I'm ready to call out.
Sat Jan 20, 2018, 05:16 PM
Jan 2018

So sick and tired of seeing actors in nude scenes with ghastly large members. I'm thinking to myself, okay, there are women out there that can enjoy every centimeter of that girth, but seriously, not all of us gals look forward to a lifetime of cystitis.

Give the actor good lines to recite because the sexiest part of a man is his brain.

WhiteTara

(29,739 posts)
16. Once on a highway
Sat Jan 20, 2018, 06:05 PM
Jan 2018

I was driving alone. Most of my cars were small and lower to the ground. A pickup was sort of following me and then getting in front of me and then I would have to pass him and then on one of these stupid things, he lifted himself out of the seat and exposed himself to me. I was horrified. He tried to get me to pull over or whatever and I just started driving as fast as I could. Finally somewhere around OKC, I lost him.

womanofthehills

(8,819 posts)
21. I had an experience with a creep on the road too
Sat Jan 20, 2018, 07:00 PM
Jan 2018

I was driving on a road in a rural area and this guy was tailing me so I slowed way down and he not pass. Then he passed and slowed down. Then he sped away really fast and when I came around the next curve he was out of his car with his pants down masturbating as I drove by. Then I drove as fast as I could too.

WhiteTara

(29,739 posts)
23. Didn't you really feel vulnerable?
Sat Jan 20, 2018, 07:20 PM
Jan 2018

For me this was long before cell phones and it was a very lonely stretch of interstate highway (in the 60s the highways were almost empty for miles) and I was scared.

I have had a few of those kinds of incidents. One day a man walked up to me on the street and whipped his thing out. I sort of shrieked and ran down the street away from him.

But I did have a few strange but very sweet things happen...once I was walking (remember when we did that?) down a fairly busy street and a man came up, dropped to his knee, sort of bowed his head and thanked me for being on the planet. Then we both walked away.

kwassa

(23,340 posts)
17. One of the first actresses I saw nude in a film was Helen Mirren ....
Sat Jan 20, 2018, 06:39 PM
Jan 2018

The Australian film "Age of Consent" in which she modeled nude for artist James Mason. 1969, she was 22 playing a teenager. Directed by Michael Powell. I saw it back when it came out.

Takes place on the Great Barrier Reef. Nude snorkeling, too. It left an impression.

left-of-center2012

(34,195 posts)
18. From a guy's perspective ...
Sat Jan 20, 2018, 06:47 PM
Jan 2018

When living in Portland, ME around 1990 I was waiting at a street corner for the "walk" light to change
so I could cross the street.
Traffic was moving slowly, as it was downtown.

When one guy drove by, I thought,
"Why is he holding a hotdog in his lap?"

Apparently he was driving around ... exposed?

"C'est la vie", say the old folks, it goes to show you never can tell

tavernier

(12,429 posts)
19. That didnt happen to me,
Sat Jan 20, 2018, 06:56 PM
Jan 2018

but I did go on several dates where the guy would eventually guide my hand to his bulge, still clothed. I suppose that my consent would have meant that things would have progressed. I was young and desired romance, so it was a turn off. Little did they know that I was eager as well, but five minutes of back seat necking didn’t “feed the bulldog” as my hubby used to say. Women think with their hearts.

Aristus

(66,530 posts)
24. If I was ever fortunate enough to find myself in Helen Mirren's presence,
Sat Jan 20, 2018, 07:28 PM
Jan 2018

I would be on my best gentlemanly behavior. If I was lucky enough that she noticed me long enough to say a simple 'hello' to me, I would go out and found a temple in her honor.

Those clods ruined an encounter with Helen Mirren with their (literally) dickish behavior.

It's not fair...

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