• NotSteve_@piefed.ca
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      My wife has talked about how it started happening to her around the same age…

      edit: I think it’s quite common everywhere unfortunately

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      One day when I was a middle school classroom teacher the girls started telling stories about getting catcalled. The youngest one could remember was being 8 and getting hollered at by construction workers while riding her bike to school.

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          I don’t think it happens to boys Felix. Not everyone is going to have the same experiences, or know about them.

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              Why make their world more difficult by trying to argue that “This hasn’t happened” to others though? Like why are you trying to use the non-reporting status of your two little sisters in this comment right now?

              I hope it hasn’t happened to them. But there are literally multiple users above (and a comic) saying it does happen… You’re choosing to be like:

              *“I have two little sisters. This hasn’t happened.

              As if we’re all gonna go “oh this is the REAL proof!” It’s like, hey I’m glad, but why try to deny that it doesn’t happen? How does that particular comment aid anyone?

              Imagine if there was a thread asking for help, because OP just got a dog… And you’re like “My auntie and uncle don’t have a dog”

              Like so?? Fuckin - don’t comment then. Like, hey good - but totally irrelevant to the topic.

              “Oh my mother, sister, auntie, female friend, and workmates have never brought this up to me. It hasn’t happened.”

              Whoopty doo mother fucker? Oh the topic is computers?

              “My pet rabbit doesn’t have a computer. Computers don’t exist for him.”

              Who the fuck cares? Did you think we were saying it’s an absolute? Or that we’re looking to interview 4 billion plus women on earth and tick off the has happened to, vs hasn’t happened to (according to you). Did you think that’s what we were doing?

              What the fuck was the point of your comment? To deny sexism for others in the hopes your two little sisters have a harder time with it (or being believed) later in life?

              Get on the right team dickhead. Take the L. Take all the downvotes you’re gonna get and shut the fuck up.