“The true test of a man’s character is what he does when no one is watching.”
- John Robert Wooden (October 14, 1910 – June 4, 2010)
Posted on 08/29/2014 2:47:47 PM PDT by Sherman Logan
I’ve been catcalled in NC, WV, CO, SC, TN, NY, FL, and CA. I dress modestly and act accordingly. Small cities, big cities, doesn’t matter.
The problem is that some people (men in this case) don’t know how to behave themselves in public, or around members of the opposite sex.
This isn’t a city problem. It’s a society problem.
My suspicion is most of these are not construction workers nor are even employed at all.
If she wears clothes you find provocative, she’s just asking for abuse?
Men are unable to control themselves, and women are temptresses who have to hide themselves.
How Islamist of you. Seriously. You describe the Islamist viewpoint to a T.
Congratulations.
Let’s celebrate diversity. We’ll just call them piropos! (Look them up if you don’t know what those are).
The article seems to claim that “men” behave in this way.
May I point out that many men do not, and wouldn’t dream of it.
Most of what she describes goes way beyond what most people would consider to be “cat calling”.
Sometimes, even "an eyeful" is improper. I've had three attractive daughters, the reprobates started getting their eyes full when my daughters turned about ten year sold. It's infuriating to a father - or a mother either for that matter.
More than once, I've shouted at some pervert to "get their eyes back in their heads" and loudly tell them, She's 12 years old pervert. very effective in a crowded store and it beats shooting them, which I would prefer at times.
Anyone here who has daughters knows exactly what I mean.
The males she describes are animals the like of which I have never seen. Someone OPENLY ogling a passing 13 yr old in a bar full of men AND in front of her father?!? Bull! Were these males of any particular race?
Very astute of you to recognize that. Decent men have no idea how other men behave when they think no one is watching.
It's what, in a previous era, was expected of a gentleman.
- John Robert Wooden (October 14, 1910 – June 4, 2010)
I wonder to what extent this behavior is the result of decades of denigration of the concept of gentleman.
Evidently, crass is de rigueur.
Dude,she’s a cow.
Didn’t watch the video did you?
These women in the video were kvetching about the downsides of being attractive. I didn’t see them lining up to disavow advantages they have received by being attractive.
There are boorish men out there, always will be. Is it every man, no. But the inference here is that it IS EVERY MAN.
Life possesses certain inherent risks. One must be able to identify, accept, and navigate those risks in a free society.
But, I can see in your Orwellian vaginocracy that freedom is not for everyone, just women.
Encounter a few hundred random men in the street and at least one is going to hit on you. Always.
I also guarantee a great deal of the harassment would be seen as welcome flirting if it came from an attractive man. If the guy is unattractive, he is automatically labeled a “creeper” before he even opens his mouth.
Never seen a good-looking heterosexual female that complains.
It's the butt-ugly feminists, but I repeat myself, who really have a problem with this.
Having said that, catcalls are one thing, cornering and harassing women is another.
I know for a fact that women when they reach a certain age, are kind of SAD when they don't get whistled at anymore.
Now THAT makes them feel ugly and over the hill.
But it IS a part of construction workers "culture".
Very high testosterone.
If these guys DON'T cat-call, they're considered, shall we put it bluntly, gay.
I imagine however there are plenty of Christian men in construction who don't do this.
from what I have read and seen, it would be a few guys cat-calling and everyone else working (or pretending to in a union state heh)
Well, as a man you have my sincere apologies that some men are pigs. Some of us aren’t, or at least not that variety.
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