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I agree with you. These jerks are not being “friendly.” They are inappropriately sexualizing a casual meeting.

I think it is very much a cultural thing. Very, very common in Latin cultures, and I guess it’s been adopted by blacks, or possibly it’s always been so. I think in some of the cases it is racial antagonism intended to make the white lady feel uncomfortable and reinforce the new racial hierarchy.

I’ve never done such a thing in my life, and AFAIK nobody I have ever been with has done it either. It is simply not the way a gentleman behaves, and no matter how unfashionable it is, I try to behave like a gentleman towards ladies.

At least to my mind, this is not intended to be friendly at all. It is black/latino on white and/or male on female harassment intended to make the white lady uncomfortable.

At which it seems to work quite well. Any person who isn’t dressing or acting in a way to draw attention to themselves should be able to walk down the street without being singled out and harassed or approached by strangers.

I am sorry to see so many conservatives denying this, to me, obvious truth. I understand that it is because the groups promoting this cause are feminist, angry and “progressive.” But even stopped clocks and blind squirrels, and all that.

It should be noted that the same people decrying this catcalling spend the last 50 years denigrating the concept of gentleman. To a considerable they, and a lot of innocent bystanders, are reaping what they have sown.

At least to my mind, this is not intended to be friendly at all. It is black/latino on white and/or male on female harassment intended to make the white lady uncomfortable.

You refuted your own point. The woman has big boobs and wore a skin tight, very thin shirt and tight pants. So, seemingly according to you, it’s okay for her to be ‘harassed’(which she wasn’t).

And the guys were not harassing her in their minds. They were hoping she, like many girls would today, jump at the chance to hook up with them.

And ‘women shouldn’t be approached by strangers’? How would you suggest a man meet a woman he finds attractive and would like to meet with honorable intentions?

"It should be noted that the same people decrying this catcalling spend the last 50 years denigrating the concept of gentleman. To a considerable they, and a lot of innocent bystanders, are reaping what they have sown"

The writer eventually gets to that....

"Most men who have harassed me on the street have been similar in appearance to Roberts’s harassers. It is very rare, if ever, that a man in a suit on his way to work has shouted obscenities at me.

Street harassment may be a side effect of poor urban culture, one that’s perhaps not surprising if you’re familiar with aggressive rap lyrics and videos that depict women as nothing more than sexual objects."

“I agree with you. These jerks are not being “friendly.” They are inappropriately sexualizing a casual meeting.”

And I agree with you. Perhaps this sort of thing is acceptable in some parts of Europe, or central/south America, but I tend to agree it is harassment. I tend to expect strangers in a big city like New York to largely ignore each other. These guys don’t give this friendly “hello” to men or older women they pass on the street, I’ll bet.