If, while riding down the street in your car, you are unable to resist the urge to bark like a dog at female pedestrians, then you may want to consider scheduling a visit to your local veterinarian and asking about whether getting neutering might help curb some of your problem behaviours. To the other gentlemen cat-callers: if you treat me like a cat, I consider myself fully in my rights to claw the fuck out of you any time you approach me. Best Wishes, —An Eminently Reasonable Woman
This article appears in Feb 26 – Mar 4, 2015.
“whether getting neutering might help curb some of your problem behaviours.”
Feminism – bringing you the same tired old solutions for 60 years.
I hate rude assholes, too, dear. But the problem lies between their ears, not what’s dangling in their pouch.
Do you know what happens when you feed fuel to a fire? It grows. When you starve the fire of fuel, it dies out. Why feed the fire? Because you secretly enjoy the attention…
*Austin Powers voice* Meow!
Claw their eyes out? Please! This is the new mellenium!!! Use bear mace!!
Hey, stupid, barking like a dog is not a “cat call”. Sorry to burst your bubble honey, but it means you ugly.
“GETTING NEUTERING”
An excellent bitch. Unfortunately there are those uncultured louts who bark out the window at passing female pedestrians. I think it’s an unconscionable invasion of one’s private space and is not to be tolerated.
However, I was puzzled about your reference to “getting neutering.” I can see “getting neutered” but “getting neutering” suggests the present continuous construction, indicating that the process of neutering takes place over an extended period of time. Of course, this might be accounted for by the exceptionally large testes of those barking out the window. On the other hand it might also be accounted for by a pair of dull scissors.
A pleasure as always,
Cheerio!
and this is NOT the same as being called hon by your waitress in a diner.
guys who do this are terrified of women, usually because they are still young and inexperienced. they cannot have close, personal contact so they have to speed by, hoping their personal beauty judgement call will impact the subject female. that’s their only hope. falling back on ‘you ain’t purty!’ as if that were all that mattered.
pity ’em. and all the other men out there who can actually speak to women, thank the lard these cretins leave more pussy for you.
Must be easy for all you men to put her down. Guessing you’ve never actually had to deal with cat calling. It’s fucking scary and uncomfortable. And guess what, even if this OB was “ugly” or even covering up from head to toe, it still happens. Bet you wouldn’t be saying this if it was YOUR girlfriend or one of your friends writing this. It’s sad that because someone has to nerve to complain about being treated this way is automatically being targeted as “someone who just wants attention”. Well F You Hing Frogg.
I’m thankful I haven’t had to experience cat calling that much. but I can tell you that if I never had to hear it again I’d be thrilled. I don’t want or need that attention, thanks.
I agree that it doesn’t have to do with what’s in his pants. I know lots of guys who wouldn’t do this.
This has n o t h i n g to do with her wanting attention. It has to do with being fed up about being cat called.
Women: you make you own reality – a base element of feminism. Jesus – a gay guy having to tell you this…!?!
It’s only scary and uncomfortable if you allow it to be scary and uncomfortable. Otherwise you could consider it immature behaviour and ignore it.
Either choose feminism or get into the kitchen and make me a pie…
OOOH an internet TOUGHY!! By the way, it must be close to International Woman’s day…the anti male, feminazi crowd are gearing up for the rants like last year….Buckle up boys its gonna be a bumpy ride for the next week or so!!!
Sarge is an ass and knows NOTHING!
Yours truly.
I do consider it immature behavior. And I do try to ignore it, but having a guy yell what he wants to do with you is F’ing scary and ya it does make you feel uncomfortable whether you want it to or not. You’ve never had to deal with this. So you don’t know what it’s actually like. I’m in no way saying that this is done by every man, or that every man feels that way. I know plenty of nice guys. It’s infuriating that because I’m against cat-calls, and that I find it uncomfortable that I need to go make a pie in the kitchen. Please shut the F up. Please. When you get kicked in the balls, I imagine it hurts. I’ve never personally experienced it, but I assume it hurts. You’ve never been cat-called so it’s clearly easy for you to say “just ignore it”. well, just ignore the pain when you get kicked. It’s easier said than done.
I can’t believe that because women are against BEING YELLED AT SEXUALLY ON THE STREET they are feminazi’s and anti-male. NO. I just want to walk to streets and NOT BE YELLED AT. by men OR women. I’m not against men and like I’ve said I realize that not all men act like this. but there are some that do and it shouldn’t be tolerated and people shouldn’t be put down for not putting up with it!
ok. step 1, buy land and pave a street.
step 2. put up no trespassing sign
step 3. walk down your personal street unadulterated.
Otherwise, maybe just assume people are assholes and you cannot control the public.
I don’t think anyone is trying to control people. All I’m saying is that cat-calling sucks. And if a women complains about it she shouldn’t be labeled as a feminazi or a anti-male. it is scary & uncomfortable, and it is hard to ignore. I assume that these men are assholes obviously. The people is this post need to realize it’s an issue and it’s not something to joke about, especially when they have no idea what it’s like.
Gentleman catcallers … isn’t that an oxymoron?
Dat’s why I carry Mrs. Easton…
Get you a louisville slugger and bust the winders out dey car.
Ignore them, they aren’t worth your time.
You can’t control the many assholes of the world.
You CAN control your response to assholes.
Ignoring them invalidates their lame efforts. Don’t reward their bad behaviour with a response. And if you must respond:
Got a middle finger? Flip it.
Wear headphones.
seriouslypeople?:
It was 1982 and I had JUST had my hair freshly permed. I was walking home in my classic designer jeans and heel-shoes. I lived at the top of the hill; at the bottom was a fire station. As I walked up the hill, I distinctly heard a fireman call from the window, “Hey Baby-doll”.
I considered it immature behaviour and ignored it.
I have been gay-bashed – from taunts to attempted murder. It’s scary. I still walk the streets at night as gay (if not more gay) as before. I do not allow heterosexual men (the usual culprits) to intimidate me.
And I strongly suggest you get a better understanding of feminist theories before challenging me… google Gloria Steinem.
Now…either choose feminism or get into the kitchen and make me a pie… lemon meringue.
Men get verbally harassed from cars. Invariably when walking alone or in small groups. Most often when in mid to late teens to early 20’s. It’s rarely complimentary, rarely an expression of sexual interest although sexual words, one in particular, are frequently used. The overwhelming majority of incidents never escalate past the verbal stage; assholes passing in the night. But every man knows, if the car stops, or turns around, there will be blood.
Tell us again, how we don’t actually know what it’s like.
And, for the record, castration jokes (no matter what the context) are remarkably like rape jokes. Only a fuckwit would find them funny.
It is a shame that people have to deal with kind of thing no matter who they are or what segment of society they belong to. I’m sure it is intimidating to a woman walking by herself and she is getting some of those emotions out in this bitch.
I doubt the usual members of the peanut gallery here would be quite as glib if it a was a racial attack or a verbal attack on someone handicapped. OP has the right to vent, yes ignoring the perpetrators is the best advice and they’re probably harmless but this LTWWB. Let er fly OP!
I find carloads of guys who drive around looking for people to mock more pathetic than scary or annoying. They are very unlikely to have any malicious intent – otherwise they would approach you more stealthily or would get out of their vehicle and not just drive by at 50 km/h.. If they were to turn around and come back that would be another thing and a call to the police would be merited.
For the most part they are just harmless, socially awkward dorks with nothing better to do. One day years ago I was out jogging and a guy yelled something stupid as I went by. A half hour later I saw the same guys again walking along. I stopped and walked up to the one who had yelled at me. I said, “Did you say something to me earlier?” The guy turned crimson and his friends started saying things to him like, ” Don’t you feel like a fool now?” It was precious.
RSVP
Chuck Yeager (03/06, 6:11PM)
“And, for the record, castration jokes (no matter what the context) are remarkably like rape jokes. Only a fuckwit would find them funny.”
Who was joking?
A pleasure as always,
Cheerio!
well, I would hope op was using hyperbole, and not serious about the castration. but….I still have to object to the use of it even as that. shouting insults from a car doesn’t merit castration, or a Louisville slugger. getting OUT of the car and grabbing would.
I abhor the minds that think that kind of behaviour is funny, but as I said earlier, and others have, they are dorks. there will always be a tinge of fear (and they know it) because women are generally smaller than men and a group of men yelling at a woman, *could* lead to physical threat.
I WISH that other men would speak up when they see that behaviour and tell the idiots they are idiots, because only peer disapproval works with those guys. women ‘yammering on’ about it won’t. ditto physical abuse and on and on. the Patrick stewart ‘ring the bell’ campaign.
and same in reverse. someone in my FB circle ‘liked’ an internet joke about mood rings. the ‘funny’ text was that her husband got her the mood ring, and when she was in a good mood, it turned a pretty green, but when she was in a bad mood it left a ‘big fucking red mark in the middle of his forehead so he would remember he should have bought her a diamond’.
so… I know this woman, she would never consider hitting her husband, ever. she is a gentle soul. but WTF? it’s not funny. neither the hitting part or the extortion part.
I know that the pendulum swing is pretty much unavoidable for some people, some of the time, but it disturbs me to see a person like that find such a thing humorous.
and yeah, I will speak to her about it.
I believe Jerry Seinfeld has a good bit on this topic. I like the term “this has gotta be the last living brain cell in this guy’s head”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WTbNtO0hZs…
Context is everything. The mood ring joke is funny. We all laughed as the Road Runner led the coyote off the cliff. Bugs Bunny curling the barrels of Elmer Fudd’s gun so he shot himself was funny.
Gay men were victims of society as we allowed it to happen. Notice the diametric change in that over the last 30 years.
Women will be victims of men as long as they allow themselves to be victims.
Please, stop the pity-poor-me routine. Grab hold of your power, stop this silly lynch mob-mentality and enjoy Life.
Hear! Hear!
^^^^^^^^^^
WHAAAAAA?
“:Women will be victims of men as long as they allow themselves to be victims. ” lolololololol
A+ Bitch. 10/10, would recommend. Don’t need to, as all women know this experience…
Every, how is that statement funny?
Well, maybe not every Hornbeck thought it was funny but most of them.
“clawing the fuck out of” someone is a more serious offence than catcalling. Is the OP actually tempted to physically assault these men?
I would find it extremely uncomfortable to be around any woman who speaks so freely and with such anger about castrating men. That’s pretty disturbing, imo.