Hannah Greene
Feminist and ardent supporter of the Affordable Care Act (also known as the ACA and Obamacare).
You know what’s worse than catcalling? No one ever asking you out. Never feeling desirable. Always having to take the initiative sexually and getting rejected most of the time. One of the luxuries of being a woman is that we don’t have to ask for affirmative consent because we don’t have to take the initiative and therefore are not held responsible or accountable for anything that happens.
Do Women Really Want Equality?
Nikita Coulombe
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This scenario is not gender specific. As someone who has neither been cat-called nor asked out, I think that cat-calling is easily the worse of the two. Yes, feeling undesirable can be miserable. But it’s a personal feeling, whereas being cat-called impacts one’s immediate sense of personal safety and security, causing one to feel emotionally and physically threatened. That’s a riskier place to be in, since we can work on our own feelings but can’t control the actions of others. I would also argue that more women are taking the initiative to begin relationships now. Again, it’s not as neatly gendered as this paragraph suggests.
