It’s a difference in socialisation.
Men rarely get compliments, and are socialised to take women’s attention as positive.
Women get compliments often, but are told those compliments are objectifying (and unfortunately often are correct)
It's not about catcalling being correct. A lot of times it's not flattering, it's demeaning. But men so rarely get random compliments that we can't tell the difference.
The difference is most men could overpower and hurt a woman so it starts with a catcall but for the woman on the recieving end she has no idea whether it's going to end there or if the man is going to get aggressive, start following her, try to attack/rape her and she knows that ultimately if he decided to do that there's not an awful lot she could do to stop him.
Get a bloke bigger and stronger than the husband to stop him in his tracks and give him compliments, get aggressive when he tries to ignore or respond in any way and see how happy and confident he feels then.
It's just another example of how male and female brains are wired differently. For whatever reason, men respond to it positively, and women don't. That's one reason why so many men don't see it as a problem: they assume that since they would like it and would take it as a compliment, that the woman they are catcalling would do the same.
I've literally explained the reason why women don't respond positively to it, it's from experiences they will have had where men have cat called then followed up with threatening behaviour.
It's nothing to do with being wired differently.
If a woman approached me to compliment me or even shouted across the street to compliment me I'd think it odd but probably respond positively or neutrally. If a man did it I would feel threatened and worried about if I was potentially in danger and start looking for an escape route or a safe person to help me in case it escalated, as it has on numerous occasions before.
She should have got some guys to do the catcalling, to more accurately simulate the experience of unwanted sexual advances. Having women do it just plays right into every guy's, "Dear Penthouse, I couldn't believe my luck..." fantasies.
Men rarely get compliments, and are socialised to take women’s attention as positive.
Women get compliments often, but are told those compliments are objectifying (and unfortunately often are correct)
Get a bloke bigger and stronger than the husband to stop him in his tracks and give him compliments, get aggressive when he tries to ignore or respond in any way and see how happy and confident he feels then.
It's nothing to do with being wired differently.
If a woman approached me to compliment me or even shouted across the street to compliment me I'd think it odd but probably respond positively or neutrally. If a man did it I would feel threatened and worried about if I was potentially in danger and start looking for an escape route or a safe person to help me in case it escalated, as it has on numerous occasions before.