Cat Whistle- Flattering or Offensive?

[the_bob_delusion]

If you received one, how would you feel?

[icyfroth]

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@grapes_collector wrote:

well if I got one at my age (63)  I certainly would be flattered.

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Same.

I think it's either "cat call" or "wolf whistle",

[the_hawk*]

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@lind9650 wrote:

Many years ago, my first husband, a friend of his and I (sitting in the back set) drove along St. Kilda beach, when the men saw that gorgeous slim figure in short shorts, with below the shoulder, long, wavey coppery hair, swaying along on the footpath.

They stretched their necks out of the car window and performed with their best Wolf Whistling.

I nearly wet myself laughing when the person turned around to reveal a beautiful trimmed, thick coppery beard.

Erica 

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I got caught out one night while sitting in a truck when this couple of well dressed what I thought to be a couple of really hot chicks walked past and I gave them a whistle, Oh boy did I shrink when they turned around to thank me with a very deep husky voice.

[Anonymous]

Lol hawk and Erica ..ha ha !

[cosmosgrove]

Intimidating.

Doesn't happen very often these days, but as a teenager/young woman I remember finding it intimidating. I walked quite a distance home from school or to and from friends houses, cars slowing down, wolf whistling, yelling obscenities was not that uncommon.

These were often groups of young men, sometimes it would be solitary men. Creepy, intimidating, demoralizing. Nope, not generally a fan of the wolf whistle at a complete stranger.

[crystal**flake]

Offensive.............an educated man wouldn't do it.

[freshwater-2]

I agree, Crystal.   But so what?

[darksideofthemoon]

If you received one, how would you feel?

Surprised!

[kengillard]

surprised?      me too!!!

[imastawka]

It used to be the norm when walking past building sites.

But not these days.  It is considered to be sexual harassment.

Building site bosses don't want the law suits

[polocross58]

In today's age of trying to find an acceptable partner via online dating sites, it might be a surprise for younger, wolf-whistle-free women to learn that in the bad old days, a lot of relationships commenced with a wolf-whistle, lol

I know women now of the older generation who say they met their spouse when he whistled at them or expressed some other sound or gesture of appreciation

He whistled

she grinned

He spoke up

she spoke back

They both smiled

He came down from the scaffold

She blushed

He asked her out

She agreed

They married a year later

Today he still whistles

and she says, ' You'll never change, you randy old coot '

Their grandkids wonder how they kept romance alive through fifty years, lol