CAT CALLS ~ INNOCENT OR DISRESPECTFUL

If you've been on the Internet in the past couple days, you've probably seen that viral video showing all the catcalls one woman received while walking around New York City for 10 hours. Sometimes it's hard for even the most empathetic of men to understand the level of street harassment most women face.

When I know I’m looking good, I brazenly walk past a construction site, anticipating that whistle and ‘Hey, mama!’ catcall. Works every time — my ego and I can’t fit through the door!,” Doree Lewak wrote in an essay published this week, adding, “Oh, don’t go rolling those sanctimonious eyes at me, young women of Vassar: I may court catcalls, but I hold my head high. Enjoying male attention doesn’t make you a traitor to your gender.”

Absent in the article is the effect catcalls have on men, of course there is the perception that it never happens.