Openly scrutinizing strangers in public was classed as vulgarity in 1881.
Evidence
No gentleman is ever guilty of the offense of standing on street corners and the steps of hotels or other public places and boldly scrutinizing every lady who passes. — Lyn H. Lofland, World of Strangers_ Order and Action in…, 675
Categorization
Category: Factual Claims
- XREF: The gaze that etiquette forbids is exactly the flâneur’s observing self the reader is tracking — vulgarity was initially the penalty for the observer’s stance.
Related
- Gendered norms proscribed the male gaze on women in public street space (similarity 0.85)