'Amanda, I think you’re a bloody fool. When are catcalls not sexist? All catcalls are sexist, just like all men need to be educated on rape culture.' |✍️ Emmie Harrison-West
All unwelcome, unwarranted forms of interaction between a man and a woman – including wolf whistles and catcalls – are sexual harassment and should be punished, rather than endorsed.supports HTML5 video
I’m not saying every single builder is a sexist pig, but I’m saying it’s far too many. Too many times have I been wolf whistled from a height by a builder as if I was a lap dog, or called ‘sexy’ from the window of a moving van.I’ve had others tell me to ‘lighten up’ when I’ve called them out in public. Calling me a bitch, and telling me that it’s ‘only a joke’. Some have followed me; getting close enough for me to feel their spit landing on my skin as they shout at me.
Except, it’s not a joke – is it? I’m now terrified to walk past groups of men – builders or not. Terrified to walk alone down my own street, regardless of whether it’s day or night. To hear Amanda Holden – television personality, a businesswoman with a limitless impressionable platform of both young women and men,mother of two young girls aged 10 and 16 – welcome such harassment from men is absolutely devastating. And so utterly harmful.
Not only does this antiquated attitude set a disgusting example to young girls about their self-esteem and the behaviour they should welcome and value from men – it encourages young men to follow suit. To treat women with such disregard. To treat them as if they were mere pets to sit, pose and beg.Not only in the last few weeks have we seen another young woman,
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