I have been reading this thread with fascination for the last couple of days. I didn't plan on actually wading into the minefield, but I just saw catcalling happen while walking outside a few minutes ago.
A woman is walking along, minding her own business, when a homeless man shouts, "Holy cow! Look at the handles on that cutie!"
And this is in a fairly progressive city, so it doesn't just happen in NYC.
Yes, agreed.... and you could see it and you know it happened.
I've never said it doesn't happen. All I said was I can't see it in the city I live even though I spend a lot of time outdoors downtown on my bicycle and walking around.
I thereby deduced that though it of course DOES happen in the city where I live, it DOES NOT happen to the extent that it happens in other places. The viral video of New York being a good example.
Because I said I don't think it happens that often where I live, other posters have decided that I'm a nazi sympathizer, unfit to be a parent of a daughter, a mansplainer, a man who dares to think that a women assaulting him is in someway as significant as the same thing happening to a women. A forest gump like dummy who's obviously a confused idiot for not going along with what he's told to think.
I'd be offended but it's almost hilarious.... it's the excited states of America that you see on the T.V.