Posted on 08/19/2014 11:03:11 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Summer to me means three things: heat, hemlines and hard hats.
It’s the time of year when I can parade around in a skimpy dress with strategic cutouts that would make my mom wince.
And when I know I’m looking good, I brazenly walk past a construction site, anticipating that whistle and “Hey, mama!” catcall. Works every time — my ego and I can’t fit through the door!
I’ll never forget my first time: At age 20, interning at MTV in Times Square and taking advantage of the company’s liberal summer dress policy, I was wearing a tightly molded pink tank top and black capris when I strolled by two construction guys on a lunch break.
“You’re hot!” they shouted, high-fiving one another. I was over the moon. What a contrast from those coy college boys who never expressed how they felt. This was a brave new world, where guys tell it like they see it. Now, a decade later, I still get that butterflies-in-the-stomach feeling whenever I walk past a construction stronghold. I’ve learned that it’s not what you wear — the skimpy sundresses, the sky-high heels — but how.
Walking confidently past a mass of men, making eye contact and flashing a smile shows you as you are: self-possessed and playful. The wolf whistles that follow will send your ego soaring.
I realize most women with healthy self-confidence don’t court unwanted male attention. In fact, most women seem to hate it.
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why would u assume anybody needs your input on how they look?
Yow. Turn off the highbeams lady.
Don’t want to be mean, so not commenting on the photo.
As for the article, she pretty much admits that she goes to great lengths to get noticed and that makes her feel good. Low self esteem problems.
I wouldn’t hit it, paging LAZ
Over here.
She kind of looks like some of the female rent a drunks I’ve seen come out of the Labor Pool
Reminds me of a professor I had in college, a very droll old British fellow. He was telling a story about his daughter and how outraged she was by the catcalls, whistles and pinches she received from construction workers when she traveled to Italy.
“Then again...” he said in that typical wry Brit way, “if she had gone to Italy and NOT been pinched or whistled at, I rather suspect she would have been quite disappointed!”
I can’t find the clip but there is a scene in the movie Garbo Talks (1984) where Ann Bancroft (whose character is that of a dying Mom) walks past a construction site and promptly takes one of the workers to task when he is whistling and making rude comments to the young lady who was walking ahead of her. Both hilarious and enlightening....
when she still think its cool if she got raped ???
I don’t mind this article at all, but I will correct the author on one point: a woman doesn’t have to be showing a lot of skin to get male compliments or smiles. I’m 51, I don’t wear miniskirts, of course, but I still get some glances from the guys...some of them younger. My husband takes a proprietary pride in that.
Feminists who hate that kind of thing probably don’t get much of it...Rush was right.
When these ladies hit 35, many will be praying that anyone will acknowledge that they exist.”
Maybe not their generation but certainly ours welcomed the whistles. Of course we also used to check out guy’s dupas and make comments, too. Rather miss those days!
She’s fine. Porcelain skin is beautiful...more so than the burnt cookie look, IMO.
Walking intentionally near a worksite of men, intentionally provocatively dressed to get sexual attention means that if the woman was molested it isn’t her fault. According to the left.
That’s just not a good look for practically anyone.
I don’t see men staring at anything but their phones these days.
OMG! 911 the fashion police. Isn’t poor taste in clothes a crime? It should be. Somebody clue her in about sunless tanning lotion. Oye Ve! :-)
A whiskey sour.
My buddy turned to me and said...."remember when the bartender called you honey?
Oh hum....I'm 70 and afraid as to what the bartender would say at this point.
Do these guys know that we take our eyes off the road for a glimpse of their bronzed sweaty chests? Life is good!!
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