Thread: I was catcalled today

Originally Posted by bajisima

My son informs me that catcalls and such are only for "old people" nowadays. Apparently now if you see someone hot, you try to either see where they are headed (work or school) or you get their number and you sext them. His buddies hand out their cell phone numbers and then the girls send them topless pics or sext them. Flirting nowadays is sexting. Times are a changing it seems.

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I think you're conflating legitimate courtship behavior with accosting strangers in a way that makes them feel powerless.

Originally Posted by bajisima

I don't know Babba, ever see women catcalling men? Its way way worse. Women are horrible. Same thing for strip clubs or dance clubs, women are way worse than men.

Originally Posted by Djinn

So it would seem.

Coaching isn't the same as calling out the content of your post as it relates to the topic. Like MacDuff, you seem to be saying catcalls are the same as a sincere flirtatious, face-to-face comment.

These violent womens is why I had to switch aftershaves......

Originally Posted by Eve1

Cat called and carded? How old are you people? I haven't had either, well I can't remember when the last time was. Now I'm sad. Thanks guys. Geez...

Hey Baby, let me see your ID!!

Originally Posted by bajisima

I don't know Babba, ever see women catcalling men? Its way way worse. Women are horrible. Same thing for strip clubs or dance clubs, women are way worse than men.

Except men don't really mind it in general, and it is not threatening like it can be for women.

Originally Posted by Dr Sampson Simpson

Except men don't really mind it in general, and it is not threatening like it can be for women.

Depends on the circumstances. In college, guys always catcall girls especially if they are at a party or at a game. Met my future husband that way. But yea if you are walking alone and a group approaches you at night that's different.

Originally Posted by Eve1

Cat called and carded? How old are you people? I haven't had either, well I can't remember when the last time was. Now I'm sad. Thanks guys. Geez...

I'll be sixty in October. When I asked "Are you kidding?" the clerks said "No, you have to look 40."

And it was a woman so she wasn't just schmoozing me because it was "Make an old lady happy" day at Kroger.

Well, at least I don't think she was.

Originally Posted by Babba

I had a job back in my very younger days when I was more attractive, shall we say, and I took the job very seriously but was told by the guys I worked with that my job was just to hang around looking pretty. It was at a U-Haul moving center where I worked as a cashier but also drove and parked trucks as large as 24 foot and taught male customers how to drive manual transmissions. As well as performing maintenance on the trucks.

One of my bosses put the moves on me one time (while I was living with my husband before we were married and my boss was well aware of this) and I had to fend him off without losing my job.

This shit isn't funny or anything not to take seriously. It sucks. And while it may occasionally happen to males, it rarely has the consequences or affects them in the same way. It's not funny or something to make light of.

Sorry to ruin the mood.

On second thought, I'm not sorry. This simply isn't something to make fun of and I'm shocked that any woman would.

Good point. When I worked at Douglas I was the only woman on the shop floor on my shift. I never had a problem except one minor incident, but the machines were really big and far apart so it limited contact I had with the other machine operators.

Never had a boss try and pick up on me, that's the worst.

Originally Posted by bajisima

Depends on the circumstances. In college, guys always catcall girls especially if they are at a party or at a game. Met my future husband that way. But yea if you are walking alone and a group approaches you at night that's different.

Yeah, you hear women complain about being hit on all the time, but the at other times saying they like it and want it.