Posted on 10/30/2010 1:10:20 PM PDT by chickadee
Whistles, catcalls and lewd come-ons from strangers are all too familiar to New York City women, who say they are harassed multiple times a day as they walk down the street. Now lawmakers are examining whether to do something to discourage it.
A City Council committee heard testimony Thursday from women who said men regularly follow them, yell at them and make them feel unsafe and uncomfortable. Advocates told stories of preteens and teenagers being hounded by adult men outside city schools and pleaded for government to address the problem.
(Excerpt) Read more at nbcnewyork.com ...
Tough, ugly problem. Not sure government can do anything about it. The problem seems more cultural and a result of a general breakdown in manners and civility.
Slavery is freedom.
Well the problem would be from NO cat calls, meaning she be ugly.
Oh, I don’t know - I’ve heard pity catcalls. Sometimes construction workers can be very kind.
“Oh, I don’t know - I’ve heard pity catcalls. Sometimes construction workers can be very kind.”
LMAO
They tried this in Rome several years ago but was defeated because the women did not want the men to stop what they were doing.
I was amused by the fact that the legislators saw it as a free speech thing instead of a lack of civil behavior. I think it is an intractable problem, but with our breakdown in societal mores, people are looking to regulations for cultural issues.
cc permit should help
Most of the catcalls are for the benefit of the other guys as opposed to the women. It’s actually saying, “I realize that woman would have nothing to do with me, so I’ll make insulting comments to prove what a man I am.”
“This is absolutely not a problem”.
- Jeanane Garofolo
Would gays commenting on others of their same sex be covered by this?
*** cc permit should help ***
You are brilliant! Let the city charge for catcall permits. Problem not resolved, but city makes a bundle off of the situation. (Not to be rude, but do you belong on this website, lol)
Good to see they’re on top of the really big issues facing the city.
lol.
I don’t know if you’re being sarcastic or not, but when I said cc permit, cc was not an acronym for cat call!
It’s funny how cowardly these lechers are when confronted. There used to be a pair of latino hair dressers who sat on the big landscape pots at the entrance of a high rise I worked in and choochied the women as they came in in the morning.
One day, a woman who worked in the same building with me and I got to talking on the bus ride to work about these two. We resolved that if they were there when we arrived, we would give it right back to them. We did, they got all flustered and ran off, never to take up station there again.
“This is absolutely not a problem”.
- Jeanane Garofolo”
Tattoo Skank could walk around naked and not get a whistle from me.
I doubt if anyone cares if it’s coming from 20 floors up. I recall feeling very awkward in my teens, 20’s and 30’s, particularly if they cat called from a few feet away. It’s also more intimidating if it’s a group, you try to ignore it but really you don’t know where to look. Crossing the street doesn’t help either, they peg you as a scaredy cat and usually ratchet up the taunts. Granted it used to only come from a certain sector of society...but perhaps that has changed?
As people lose internal government within their hearts and minds (with the end result with us behaving no better than animals) external, physical government grows until it becomes tyrannical at every level. The Socialization of America would have it no other way!
Oops, I wasn’t being sarcastic. Um, what does cc mean?
“…harassed multiple times a day…”
That’s harassment....
What a bunch of panty-weights, real women are not bothered or don’t get bothered with stuff like this…only the Euro-bitch, Feminazi, Homo-Leninist and pussy brigade types make anything out of this. The Fugally, unkempt and rotten behavioral trait types being upset with the world.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.