# Women - how often do you experience catcalls?

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [July 31, 2020, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/women-how-often-do-you-experience-catcalls/916937 "2020-07-31T20:17:19Z")\
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**Post date:** [August 2, 2020, 10:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/women-how-often-do-you-experience-catcalls/916937/114 "2020-08-02T10:19:00Z")

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Personally I don’t honk my horn at attractive passers-by, and I don’t catcall. I tried once as a child, and failed. To this day, I still cannot whistle.

I have heard a couple old fogeys tell me that catcalling used to be as appropriate as “you look beautiful”. I can’t imagine when… the '30s? I don’t have any issue telling somebody I know that they look beautiful (or handsome), so long as I really think it is true. I do, unfortunately, hesitate to tell complete strangers that they look beautiful (or handsome). I don’t want to creep them out and it’s very awkward when unprompted.

~Max

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