http://cache.jezebel.com/assets/base/img/thumbs140x140/jezebel.com.png http://jezebel.com/tag/catcalls http://jezebel.com/tag/catcalls

Welcome back to Guysourcing, where a panel of helpful gentlemen answer your questions! This week, again by reader request, we asked, "how do you feel about men who catcall at women? Have you ever done it? If so, why? Do you understand why other men do it?" Read on for the guys' responses. More »
]]> http://jezebel.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5879957&view=rss&microfeed=true

Catcalling is a perennial issue for many women, especially in cities, and it can be tough to know how to deal with it. Now one advice columnist is offering an unconventional tip: just wait til you're old — then you'll miss it. More »
]]> http://jezebel.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5811846&view=rss&microfeed=true

It's about to be spring, and though a winter chill lingers through much of the country, there's no doubt that warm weather is almost upon us. And with balmy days ahead, it's a good time to focus on street harassment –- a problem that always seems to get worse this time of year. Fittingly, this Sunday, March 20, marks the First Annual Anti-Street Harassment Day. More »
]]> http://jezebel.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5783453&view=rss&microfeed=true

Are you curious about the guy on the corner who likes your workout clothes so much he would like to marry you? Turn the attention on him for a change with this handy form. Also includes a helpful section for the nasty names he calls you when you ignore his extremely serious marriage proposal. [The Riot, via The Frisky] More »
]]> http://jezebel.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5761991&view=rss&microfeed=true

Researchers have discovered that Brazil's Amazonian forests are populated by big cats - including margay, jaguars, and pumas — imitate the calls primate prey. It's the first time wild cats in the Americas have been observed being so tricky. More »
]]> http://jezebel.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5583560&view=rss&microfeed=true

The other day, a friend of mine was waiting for a light to change when a dude on a bicycle pulled to a slow stop in front of her, blocking her path. "I'd like to scoop you up," he said... More »
]]> http://jezebel.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5356703&view=rss&microfeed=true

We spent a while wondering what makes this new Zyrtec ad so bizarre, and decided it's that the narrator addresses the cat as though her dialogue was translated by a "German to English" computer program. More »
]]> http://jezebel.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5254806&view=rss&microfeed=true

A woman in Grafton, Wisconsin was arrested for two overdue library books (Angels and Demons and White Oleander) and plans to never give them back after she paid a $170 fine. • A points-based credit card company, Nectar Business, has found that 1/3rd of women say they enjoy attention from construction workers. Amazingly random and unscientific! • Should new parents give away their pets when they have a baby? • A new children's book, The Princess Bubble, downplays the importance of finding a handsome prince to be happy. • More »
]]> http://jezebel.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5040689&view=rss&microfeed=true

The arrival of spring means a few things: flowers in bloom, college graduations, senior proms, skin-baring fashions, and, of course, catcalls from random men on the streets and sidewalks of America. CNN.com has decided to celebrate the season by posing the question "catcalling — creepy or a compliment?" in a story today that has, at this point, been emailed to us some half-dozen times. Holly Kearl, a George Washington University graduate whose master's thesis focused on street harassment, conducted an anonymous email survey of some 225 women and found that 98 percent of respondents experienced some form of street harassment at least a few times, while about 30 percent reported being harassed on a regular basis. "For me, anyone who interrupts my personal space to objectify me or make me feel uncomfortable or threatened is harassing me," she said. More »
]]> http://jezebel.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=390498&view=rss&microfeed=true