Friday, July 24, 2009

Annoyed

Ireland had a wolf-whistling contest. Read here. As someone who has degrading things yelled out the window at her practically every day, I'm disgusted. Wolf-whistling is a symptom of a larger problem of disrespecting and devaluing women. I first learned about this on www.feministing.com. I am so sick of this bullshit. Yes, it's politically incorrect. Pointing that out doesn't make it ok to keep practicing it, or to make a competition out of it. We should be discouraging this ape-like behavior. Not rewarding it.

2 comments:

  1. That's disgusting. Who does that, in this day and age?

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  2. I know! Though the tradition is alive and well here! Everyone from young kids to adults does it. I hate it....

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