In some five decades, I’ve never catcalled a woman in my life. I have occasionally turned around to catch another glimpse, and a couple of times I’ve walked into a telephone pole.
I also never hear this going one. Maybe because of where I am, or possibly because I don’t notice it.
The author of this piece is offended that the video shows almost only NAMs doing the catcalling. Possibly that’s an artifact of who does most of it? But of course all men get accused of this.
It would also be interesting to do a whole series of these videos. Are black or latina women harassed less by NAMs? Of those men she passes, what percentage catcall her by ethnicity? How much does changing clothing change the response to her?
There’s actually a whole lot of interesting studies that could be done using this method. But I suspect they wouldn’t like the results.
The only time I heard catcalling was walking around Newark Airport with my sister and her friends (college aged). Several NAMs made comments to them.
In the old days, it was only construction workers and only a wolf whistle. Groups of men just were not on the street hanging around because loitering laws were enforced; thus, women were safe on the street.