


It's apparently a low-down dirty old man fact that dudes have always been something that rhymes with corny. It's childish and ignorant, but nowadays a lot of younger women seem to enjoy it. I don't like hearing guys whistle or yell down the street at women they don't know. I worked at a bar for more than a year where 90 percent of our private parties were older women, and they would harass me and another bartender constantly. Nowadays you can't even tell a woman they look beautiful or any kind of compliment without them feeling you are attempting to win them over for some other agenda. It's harassment, but since it happens so often in the public setting, people have resorted to "ignoring" it instead of doing something about it. It seems to be a way for them to gain control of us. It makes me wary of all men because it has happened so often. I'm so sick of men's demeaning catcalls and staring at me like a piece of meat. I've heard a guy say that any woman who works out to have a good figure must be a slut. Men are told that "no" means "yes" and that any woman who bothers to put on lipstick is actively trolling for sex with anyone who happens to want her. The media, advertising and our general culture teaches men that all women are available (for the right price). Some of my teenage female students tell me they are hit on so much by men, all ages, all ethnicities, that they are afraid to go buy gas alone.
