This is one of the major differences between the sexes. Women are generally insulted by “construction worker” speak.
Several years ago I was walking down the street with a friend while dressed up in a nice suit. A convertible full of attractive women slowed down as it passed and they called out “Nice Ass! Woo Hoo!” and whistled.
I still remember it fondly.
They used to, when I was single and slimmer. However, I don’t typically find myself in situations by myself anymore where anyone would be likely to do so. Having a kid along and/or a husband makes you less, erm, hittable. Same for the additional pounds (which I have reason to believe will be gone soon).
Gay male, 40. I’ve been ogled/chatted by a lot of women (most of whom know I’m gay but see me as some sort of challenge), but very few men. In fact, a common thread among the guys who have done so was that I had no idea they were chatting me up until they finally forewent subtlety and planted one on me.
ETA: Should probably specify that by “planted one” I mean “kissed”.
Do people ogle/chat me up? No.
I do get approached and chatted up sometimes. I don’t know how on earth people can miss my engagement and wedding rings.
Come with me next time I have to walk past the women’s cells at the county jail. it’s not offensive or demeaning exactly, but you’ll definitely blush. Attention overload.
I’m tall and moderately good looking in low light and tend to attract attention, male and female, which is good because I’m a friendly guy but slightly shy. Most of the women I’ve been with have approached me rather than the other way around. Most of that attention of the romantic sort magically vanished since I obtained the Ring of Female Repulsion +5 during the Expedition to the Altar of Dread. Luckily, the princess who rescued me is okay with my former adventuring career as “Manho the Barbarian.”
Ah. That’s what I’m doing wrong.
When I was younger, I was always a bit geeky (oh, I bet that’s a surprise, considering my user name). I was reasonably athletic, running track and playing basketball and such. I never thought of myself as attractive, but I was always clueless about girls. When I was in high school, I was playing basketball with a friend, and there was a girl watching us play. My friend had a lot more success with girls than I did, so I thought she was interested in him. Then, at one point, my friend said “Dude, she’s watching you, not me.” She became my girlfriend shortly after that. I was so completely clueless that all of my girlfriends in high school became girlfriends because they took the first move. So, I was probably ogled all the time without knowing it. I was very rarely chatted up, though.
I was flirted with by a gay guy when I was in my 20’s. I thought he was just being friendly until he tried to invite me back to his place. So, apparently at one time I was not all that unattractive to both sexes.
Now I’m fat, bald, ugly and old, and my appearance is more along the lines of “known to frighten small children”. If anyone is ogling me now, they really need to get new glasses.
I am average at best, but I’m tall (some women like that), and I’ve been told I have a very cute butt. I’m pretty sure I’m being checked out, but I think that since it’s probably the butt, I’m not seeing much of it. Plus since I sing in a band, I might get some looks from one of teeming tens of adoring female fans every now and then.
But being a married man, I don’t get approached, which is fine with me.
Well yeah but what creeps me out lately is I seem to be a magnet for girls under 18. What’s up with that? I try to be nice but I’m like, ummm, no I’m 33 and engaged. Here’s a cookie for tryin. The engagement thing is a lie but I guess I’m trying to protect their little egos. 
I thought maybe you had found them lost on the street and were just wearing them until you could track down the owner…
No one ogles me and women do not approach me… 
I could swear that attracting the attention of strangers is more about attitude and carriage than looks. I can roll out of bed and hit the grocery with unwashed hair and sweats and somebody will chat me up. My face, body, hair- all ordinary. There must be some subtle body language or facial expression that indicates *shy * or not shy.
I think it’s a matter of perception sometimes.
I was about to write you a ‘how you doin’? post when I saw this:
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And your response:
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From my perspective, that’s a message board equivalent of someone chatting you up. And you were quick to brush it off.
And I suspect that this happens in real life the same way. So either:
a) you’re pretending that you don’t get hit on
b) you’re not noticing when it happens
or
c) the tiniest of possibilities that this message board behavior doesn’t reflect real life (but I highly doubt it)
Occasionally someone will chat me up and then segue into a “Sooo, I need to get to Coquitlam… and I don’t have bus money and actually I’m allergic to the bus so I can’t take it after all, uh, do you have $12 so I can get a cab? I can get the rest of the money from a friend…”
Bah. I don’t look at anyone anymore and keep my mp3 player cranking at all times. 
I was pleasantly surprised when a guy complimented my jacket the other day though, and DIDN’T ask for money. Wow! Course, he wasn’t chatting me up, just my jacket.
I think its pretty much a fact that every man alive wants a woman to ogle him and find him attractive for his physical attributes. If a woman looked me up and down and licked her lips, I would stand there with my mouth hanging open, paralyzed, like a goat with myotonia congenita.
So in answer to the original poster, no, sadly, women do not ogle me.
I bet the women who express such indignation when some guy whistles at them secretly like the attention. I find it hard to believe that anyone would not secretly get a charge from having someone tell them they are attractive, regardless of the manner in which that compliment is expressed.
Or maybe women just get used to it after a while, and I am speaking as a man dying of starvation in the wilderness of hideousness. Look away!
You fellows do realize that when you say stuff like this, it only encourages us. Well, it encourages me, anyway.
I get it fairly often, but I always have the sneaking suspicion that it’s because I’m a young and small Asian woman. Exotic + vulnerable looking = easy target. Plus my reflex upon meeting someone’s eyes is to smile, so I dunno, maybe it looks like I’m inviting them to chat me up.
Hmm, Exotic I could buy, but I’ve never hit on a woman because I thought she was vulnerable looking. I suppose there are the occasional freak that might do so, but I imagine I am the norm in that regard.
Well, maybe vulnerable isn’t the right word. But I definitely do not have a “forbidding” look. Perhaps “approachable” might be a better way to describe it.