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Cat Calling

What is your opinion on cat calling? DP women, top 4 /DP men, bottom 4 answers

  • I have never been cat called so I have no opinion

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  • Women are generally vain and they love the attention!

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It depends on the call, if it's a whistle or along the lines of "hey baby, lookin' good today," no problem. If it's "hey baby come and sit on my face," then it's unacceptable, but what are you gonna do?

Feel scared/dirty/ashamed until safe, be mega-pissed off for a few minutes at pigs posing as men who like to intimidate and degrade women, and then regain a grip and feel sorry for them and their inadequacies, and then forget about them. Men who actually like women and see us as more than, hmmm, vessels don't treat us this way.
 
Feel scared/dirty/ashamed until safe, be mega-pissed off for a few minutes at pigs posing as men who like to intimidate and degrade women, and then regain a grip and feel sorry for them and their inadequacies, and then forget about them. Men who actually like women and see us as more than, hmmm, vessels don't treat us this way.

Very true, hence why I don't give them the satisfaction of effecting me in any way for even a moment. Not going to do it. It's a win for them every moment I do, I have no intention of allowing that. Reacting to someone for words or whistles, gives them that power of effecting you, but only if you let it. No, I'll not empower them, not even for a moment.
 
No it doesn't.

It comes from socially primitive men in a group and it means, "I saw the female and my call will be the one to attract her attention, I'm a real male, I could be Alpha!".

At least the boors who are serious about it seldom, if ever, get to reproduce.
 
No it doesn't.

It comes from socially primitive men in a group and it means, "I saw the female and my call will be the one to attract her attention, I'm a real male, I could be Alpha!".

which is why men cat-call ugly women

oh wait....
 
I'm interested to see if the men and women of DP are on par with each other or polar opposites on the subject of women being cat called. Please answer thoughtfully and honestly to the closest answer to your personal opinion. Feel free to chime in after you've voted.

Take a look at this video:




I started to pick the first option. :D


Then I resented that it was restricted to women, so I'mma flounce off in a huff. :lamo




Seriously, when I was a young studmuffin I got "cat called" by women on a few occasions. There were also a couple times I got my ass grabbed by a female, and a couple times I had to fend off a grabby female I wasn't interested in.

True story and no ****. :)

The "shout outs" made me feel extra-studley and put a smile on my face. The grab-assers... well one was a gal I knew and kinda liked so I kinda liked it (even though it startled the **** out of me and I spilled my drink), the other was actually irritating because it was done by someone I wasn't interested in.


Then there was this one chick I REALLY wasn't interested in who played Twenty Hands until I finally lost my temper and barked at her quite sharply. She wasn't taking a hint and it got really annoying.



NOW having said that... I will agree it isn't the same thing, vs being female. As a man I had a reasonable expectation that none of the aforementioned females was going to overpower me and have their way or anything like that.

Most women have to constantly bear in mind that they're on the short end of the brute force equation if the attentive man goes beyond reasonable limits, and I can certainly imagine that would change how you'd feel about it. I can understand how a women would tend to view every catcall or unsolicited admirer as a potential threat, and I can't say I blame them.


Its not something I generally do, though, as it seems crass and ungentlemanly.
 
Very true, hence why I don't give them the satisfaction of effecting me in any way for even a moment. Not going to do it. It's a win for them every moment I do, I have no intention of allowing that. Reacting to someone for words or whistles, gives them that power of effecting you, but only if you let it. No, I'll not empower them, not even for a moment.

Absolutely not. Not ever. I'd never give them the satisfaction.
 
I started to pick the first option. :D


Then I resented that it was restricted to women, so I'mma flounce off in a huff. :lamo




Seriously, when I was a young studmuffin I got "cat called" by women on a few occasions. There were also a couple times I got my ass grabbed by a female, and a couple times I had to fend off a grabby female I wasn't interested in.

True story and no ****. :)

The "shout outs" made me feel extra-studley and put a smile on my face. The grab-assers... well one was a gal I knew and kinda liked so I kinda liked it (even though it startled the **** out of me and I spilled my drink), the other was actually irritating because it was done by someone I wasn't interested in.


Then there was this one chick I REALLY wasn't interested in who played Twenty Hands until I finally lost my temper and barked at her quite sharply. She wasn't taking a hint and it got really annoying.



NOW having said that... I will agree it isn't the same thing, vs being female. As a man I had a reasonable expectation that none of the aforementioned females was going to overpower me and have their way or anything like that.

Most women have to constantly bear in mind that they're on the short end of the brute force equation if the attentive man goes beyond reasonable limits, and I can certainly imagine that would change how you'd feel about it. I can understand how a women would tend to view every catcall or unsolicited admirer as a potential threat, and I can't say I blame them.


Its not something I generally do, though, as it seems crass and ungentlemanly.

Well, there are cat-calls...and then there are cat-calls. As Summerwind said, there's quite a difference between "Hey, baby!" and "Hey, baby, come sit on my face!"
 
Absolutely not. Not ever. I'd never give them the satisfaction.

I have been known to flip them the bird if they're just being gross, so I guess I'm not entirely saintly, but it's only a split second gesture... :::hanging head in mock shame:::::
 
On the times that it has happened to me is always been a mixture of flattered and embarrassment. I think overall that i'd rather have nobody say anything to me while I am walking down the sidewalk than have somebody say something, but if somebody said something genuinely nice then i'd say thank you and keep walking since it's still kind of awkward.
 
I'm interested to see if the men and women of DP are on par with each other or polar opposites on the subject of women being cat called. Please answer thoughtfully and honestly to the closest answer to your personal opinion. Feel free to chime in after you've voted.

Take a look at this video:



That actually happened to me once. Some guy in his car in West Hollywood wolf whistled to me as I was out on the sidewalk doing some errands. He was stopped at a traffic light, so he had a lot of time to stretch the moment out. I've gotta say, if you're a man and have never had this happen to you yourself, it's kind of a disturbing and gross experience.
 
In my prime, I received all too many cat calls, vulgar suggestions, propositions, etc. The worst is when a guy just follows or walks beside you, leering. My stomach was in a knot the whole time, and I kinda relived that instance when I watched the video. I was always nervous having to walk past a group of males, but you learn early on to pretend you don't see them, don't hear them, and never show fear.

To this day there are guys who insist it's a great compliment to be sexually harassed in public, women should be grateful for the attention, and if any woman doesn't like it, she's clearly a femi-nazi who hates men.
 
That actually happened to me once. Some guy in his car in West Hollywood wolf whistled to me as I was out on the sidewalk doing some errands. He was stopped at a traffic light, so he had a lot of time to stretch the moment out. I've gotta say, if you're a man and have never had this happen to you yourself, it's kind of a disturbing and gross experience.

Well, yea... If it's from a guy. Getting it from a woman can be kind of weird, but generally doesn't register as being much more than mildly amusing at best, and annoyingly creepy at worst.
 
In my prime, I received all too many cat calls, vulgar suggestions, propositions, etc. The worst is when a guy just follows or walks beside you, leering. My stomach was in a knot the whole time, and I kinda relived that instance when I watched the video. I was always nervous having to walk past a group of males, but you learn early on to pretend you don't see them, don't hear them, and never show fear.

To this day there are guys who insist it's a great compliment to be sexually harassed in public, women should be grateful for the attention, and if any woman doesn't like it, she's clearly a femi-nazi who hates men.

Greetings, DiAnna. :2wave:

My answer to that is :bs: I'd suggest that they put the shoe on the other foot, but they'd probably like it! :lamo:
 
Well, yea... If it's from a guy. Getting it from a woman can be kind of weird, but generally doesn't register as being much more than mildly amusing at best, and annoyingly creepy at worst.

Well...you're kind of missing the point, doncha think?
 
several years ago, in front of the courthouse where my office was once located, I was waiting for my brother to pick me up and I was talking to a couple Deputy Marshals I knew. a very attractive 20 something black lady in a really cute short skirted suit comes walking by and three mopes walking by started making all sorts of rude comments. she ignored them to the point one of the mopes yelled "how you gonna get any dick if you don't pay us no attention". the three of us just stared since we couldn't believe the rudeness of those asses. One of the deputies finally said "show some respect asshole" to them and they sort of shut up and left figuring correctly that the guy who told them to STFU was a LEO. we then commented on how that young lady must have felt. I suggested that its too bad she wasn't packing and both the other guys said "yeah, sometimes that is the only lesson the works with people like that"

I find that sort of behavior idiotic and when you witness it like I did, you realize how juvenile it was. Now if they had said something like "mighty fine suit you have" or something like that, that's one thing but these guys were using the X rated version
 
I'm interested to see if the men and women of DP are on par with each other or polar opposites on the subject of women being cat called. Please answer thoughtfully and honestly to the closest answer to your personal opinion. Feel free to chime in after you've voted.

Take a look at this video:

As a male, such crude, vulgar behavior towards women shames me
 
I find it interesting that women are pissed off that men find them attractive. When people come up to my car and say.. "hey man, nice car". I don't assume they are a car thief and call the police.
 
Well...you're kind of missing the point, doncha think?

Not especially, because I'm not trying to minimize the thing.

I was simply pointing out that it's generally worse to get that kind of thing from gay men than it is women. Personally, I've experienced both.
 
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In my prime, I received all too many cat calls, vulgar suggestions, propositions, etc. The worst is when a guy just follows or walks beside you, leering. My stomach was in a knot the whole time, and I kinda relived that instance when I watched the video. I was always nervous having to walk past a group of males, but you learn early on to pretend you don't see them, don't hear them, and never show fear.

To this day there are guys who insist it's a great compliment to be sexually harassed in public, women should be grateful for the attention, and if any woman doesn't like it, she's clearly a femi-nazi who hates men.

I find it quite interesting that some of the low-class cat callers in the video I posted seemed upset that the girl did not respond/react to their 'compliment.' Like they were all offended. :roll:
 
I'm interested to see if the men and women of DP are on par with each other or polar opposites on the subject of women being cat called. Please answer thoughtfully and honestly to the closest answer to your personal opinion. Feel free to chime in after you've voted.

Take a look at this video:



Wow, your options for the males vs females is pure sexist. All of the ones for the males leads with the idea that either men are chauvinistic pigs or should be ashamed and yet for the women you give them the option of having no opinion on it.

For the record, I have no opinion on it and don't have any male friends that do it.
 
To all the guys who say they find it fine when a woman does it to them, would you all feel similarly comfortable if a large transvestite or gay man did it?

In a similar situation to the vid I was catcalled by some gay dudes in London and I felt pretty damn uncomfortable. Not something I'd want to deal with on a regular basis.
 


Jus' sayin'. :lol:
 
I find it boorish and ungentlemanly.

I'm certainly no stranger to complimenting women in public, but cat-calling is extremely lame.

I agree, no true gentleman would ever engage in cat calling. The sad part is that the art of being a real man is slowly going away- its been replaced by anything goes which means that any behavior ought to be tolerated because it might offend the perpetrators.
 
I agree, no true gentleman would ever engage in cat calling. The sad part is that the art of being a real man is slowly going away- its been replaced by anything goes which means that any behavior ought to be tolerated because it might offend the perpetrators.

I don't know why but the bold part reminded me of this....

 
Most men (or women) don't do it. Most women (or men) never suffer it. What's the real issue, if not fembot rage?
 
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