Misogyny to be treated as a hate crime in UK county of Nottinghamshire

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Plenty of progressives in the U.K. and the United States are jazzed about Nottinghamshire Police’s decision to classify misogyny as a hate crime, making it the first county in Great Britain to do so.

This sounds like an important step forward. Who doesn’t want the streets to be safer for women?

Hold on a second. Wolf whistles are considered a hate crime? Immature and tasteless, sure, but a hate crime? It turns out police worked out the new policy over a period of years with the cooperation and input of Nottingham Women’s Centre.

As described by the Nottinghamshire Police themselves, it’s not only the attitude of the man that makes his actions a hate crime, but also the woman’s perception of his motivation:

A hate crime is simply any incident, which may or may not be deemed as a criminal offence, which is perceived by the victim or any other person, as being motivated by prejudice or hatred.

Misogyny hate crime, in addition to the general hate crime definition, may be understood as incidents against women that are motivated by an attitude of a man towards a woman, and includes behaviour targeted towards a woman by men simply because they are a woman.