so last week I was walking downtown and a girl leaned out her car window and yelled “YOU LOOK LIKE A PRINCESS” and today a girl walked past me on the sidewalk and said “I love your socks” (they have birds on them) and I suggest we replace all cat-calling with girls complimenting each other on the street because honestly I have never felt more pretty or into girls in my goddamn life
Catcalling is a compliment when women do it
no, complimenting isn’t catcallng because it’s actually trying to make the person happy as opposed to deliberately harassing someone as a power trip
one of the best moments of my life was biking past this group of late-teens girls and one yelling “I LIKE YOUR BIKE,” and i smiled and waved, and another yells after me “and you’re pretty!”
women supporting other women is pure and will always be a good thing; men harassing people because they feed off of asserting dominance over people without power will always be trash
If men want to yell things like your socks are cool and I love your hair, that would be well appreciated. But instead they’ll just bark at me from their cars.
I am totally here for people of all genders replacing catcalling with gentle drive-by compliments.
For real I once had a guy on the street tell me he liked my boots and I just said thanks and he smiled and said “you look nice, have a nice day!” That was fine. That’s a compliment. I’m down for that.
The following week a guy pulled up to me in a car and told me he “would love to see that mouth around his cock”, wolf-whistled, then drove way. That is not a compliment that’s sexual harassment and it made me feel unsafe. I am floored by the number of people who apparently can’t tell the difference.
Here’s a good rule of thumb I would suggest: if you wouldn’t say it to your mother, don’t say it to a random woman on the street.