It’s spring time here in NYC so that mean there are more people walking the streets enjoying the sunshine. People have shed the bulky jackets and woolly sweaters for tanks and shorts. This also means that the cat calling from men in buildings, cars, or walking next to you on the street. I absolutely hate hate hate it. I find it unnerving and irritating because I feel like an object rather than a person. It makes me feel vulnerable and there’s no way to really fight back. You can ignore them or yell back which tends to instigate them even more. It’s gotten to the point where I wont wear short skirts or short shorts unless Adam will be walking side by side with me. Of course when I’m with him, I hear nothing.
I just wonder why men haven’t evolved from this primitive action. Why don’t they understand how stupid and ignorant it makes them out to be? Sigh. It’ll probably take a couple more decades, maybe even centuries, for men to finally figure it out.
