I know every woman out there can relate. I was walking home from work just now, which I can do because my apartment is only a little under a mile away. I'm tired, hungry, and a little crabby. All I wanted to do was get home and clean up my apartment and spend time with Anya before hubby gets home.
So I'm standing on the street corner waiting for the crossing light to turn when this truck full of men stopped at the red light starts whooping, hollering, staring, and pounding on their truck. No woman wants this. It's demeaning and frankly makes a girl pretty darn uncomfortable. Is a girl supposed to just stand there and take it? NO! So I lifted a middle finger and gave them what my mother affectionately calls the "California Howdy".
Didn't phase them. They whooped and hollered even louder.
And THEN a DIFFERENT truck of men drove by me making kissy noises and yelling when I got further down the street.
It's not like I was dressed in a way that was eliciting it or anything. I wear jeans, flip flops and t-shirts to work. No make-up, and hair in a ponytail.
Anyway, just needed to vent. I hate being treated that way. How would men like that feel if we did the same thing to them?! Grrrrr.
So I'm standing on the street corner waiting for the crossing light to turn when this truck full of men stopped at the red light starts whooping, hollering, staring, and pounding on their truck. No woman wants this. It's demeaning and frankly makes a girl pretty darn uncomfortable. Is a girl supposed to just stand there and take it? NO! So I lifted a middle finger and gave them what my mother affectionately calls the "California Howdy".
Didn't phase them. They whooped and hollered even louder.
And THEN a DIFFERENT truck of men drove by me making kissy noises and yelling when I got further down the street.
It's not like I was dressed in a way that was eliciting it or anything. I wear jeans, flip flops and t-shirts to work. No make-up, and hair in a ponytail.
Anyway, just needed to vent. I hate being treated that way. How would men like that feel if we did the same thing to them?! Grrrrr.