r/europe • u/umotex12 Poland • 2d ago

News Teenagers in Poland are organizing "hoe patrols". They harass and record teenage girls in malls while wearing "ho patrol" vests

https://wyborcza.biz/biznes/7,177150,32212885,patrole-pilnowaly-granic-dzieciaki-pilnuja-teraz-dziewczyn.html
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u/SnooStrawberries620 Canada 1d ago

I went to school with a lot of Polish boys (and one of my grandparents was Polish). This doesn’t surprise me in the slightest. A very blunt and sexist culture. The women are pretty great actually, but low tolerance for the young men I had the displeasure of knowing. And that was in rhe 1990s in Canada. This is pre-social media, pre-Andrew Tate, pre-easily spread right wing extremism.

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u/PasicT 1d ago

Polish boys in 1990s Canada were mostly second or third generation "Poles".

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u/SnooStrawberries620 Canada 1d ago

Off the plane fresh; parents spoke no English. My mom used to talk to them at school events in her broken Polish / Ukrainian disaster mix.

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u/PasicT 1d ago

Fair enough but most Polish people living in Canada do not tend to be off the plane fresh.

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u/SnooStrawberries620 Canada 1d ago

I don’t know if you live here with a Polish ancestry? I do. But thank you for the explanation.

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u/PasicT 1d ago

I'm not of Polish ancestry though I am Slav and did live in Canada for a while.