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Cat Calling Is For Douchebags

Don't Cat Call

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Being a student in Iowa City, I've become quite accustom to the life of massive amounts of alcohol. Not me personally, but the majority of people around me are usually drunk; especially on weekends and weekdays and holidays. With this, comes a plethora of inhibition destruction and a loss of self control, allegedly. What I want to address is the cat calling people do, expecting a different outcome than the one they ALWAYS get.

What I mean is the spamming of derogatory terms in hopes to get laid. This happens way too much in Iowa City and what that tells my spidey senses is that Iowa City isn't the only college town where cat calling occurs. Do you ever objectively look at this situation? In most cases, it's usually like 6 or 7 really drunk guys screaming at a girl usually walking home. Now, I'm all for the mating aspect of life and I know that chemistry is a thing, but guys (mostly guys) you gotta start realizing that this is setting us men back 100 years. It's 2016, and we all should know about how everyone would like to be treated; for the most part. And yet, we've evolved into a bunch of drug imbeciles screaming profanities in hopes to either bring this female home or to impress our friends with bigotry. I speak on the behalf of men but I don't imply that only men do this. I've experienced a cat calling situation. I guess in this case, would it be called dog calling? The feeling is actually kind of uncomfortable because in the moment of being cat/dog called, you become the object of interest to several random drunk people and all they are doing is fixating on you as you walk home. This is slightly messed up because if you dig deeper into this thought, those random drunk strangers are envisioning you naked. And no one wants that. Unless you want that..

Essentially, everyone should understand that no one enjoys being cat called. It's degrading and really strange that it still exists because we have the internet and smart phones. We have all this amazing stuff and we continue to excel and create amazing things. But then, you have these people that get drunk and then scream at women and men, in hopes that this tactic will grant them the gratification they are seeking. This is a veil that should be shattered because no man or woman will ever succeed in this manner. So we should eliminate it or really expose and exploit it. And then explicate on why it should be dismantled. It's ineffective and it puts the collective society of humanity back, because we're better than that. We're all better than that.

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