What’s the worst cat call you’ve ever received?
via Cats Against Catcalling on Tumblr
@solikearose: “I once had a guy tell me he wanted to ‘oil me up.’ Disgusting.”
@katiathemick: “Gotta be the tongue between the y-shaped fingers. Random tongues are gross.”
@nikkif610: “while walking with a female friend of mine near the Fenway area a man shouted that he could satisfy both of us at once.”
@caulkthewagon: “one time a street harasser told me that I ‘have the kind of hair a man wants to put his [you-know-what] into.’ GROSS.”
@raptor_math: “Tossup between guy who hissed ‘TITTIES’ at me on Newbury & guy who grabbed my arm late @ night on Park St.”
@nikkif610: “hey girl you want some food stamps cuz I like my bitches thick and you gettin there.”
@annmariebrok: ”Hey girl, you looking for a boyfriend?” I kept walking. “[yelling] WHAT? YOU DON’T LIKE BLACK GUYS?” That wasn’t just an awful catcall, but he yelled the implication that I’m racist to a busy downtown street. I felt humiliated for ignoring street harassment, which is something that no one should ever feel bad about.
@RebeccaThandi: “Wouldn’t respond to a man winking at me on a bus. As he was exiting he elbowed me hard in the back of the head then smiled. …I’m going with “gross over-the-top wink” as “silent catcall.”"
@nikkif610: “Get those big tits over here sexy, I want them in my face, I love you chubby ladies.”
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Most offensive: A car full of guys started yelling at my friends and I, asking if we’d ever heard of Jenny Craig.
Weirdest: A guy rode his bike behind me for 2 blocks, yelling that he wanted to watch me walk all the way to Niagara Falls.
While walking down the street with my butch girlfriend, a man said to her “Hey, Competition! You KNOW I could eat it better,” referring, of course, to my anatomy.