"Fuck you!" she exclaimed as she tried to walk around him.
"No," he returned smugly. "I'll fuck you." And biked away triumphantly before she could respond.

You get used to tuning out the day-day indignities of cat-calls and come-ons every woman experiences in her day-to-day life. This week alone, two friends mentioned "compliments" of "niiiiiiiiiiiiiiiice aassssssssss titties" and "hey, I love ya boobs" and in my neighborhood there's a phenomenon of a lone guy hissing "sexxxxy" just as you pass him. This kind of insult is demeaning, depressing, indiscriminate, and quotidian.

But then, every so often, you'll hear something so bizarre, so odd, so memorable, that it sticks with you. Whether the dude in question is more creative, or merely deranged, they somehow produce insults that make an impression.

Take the time I was standing in line at the Walgreens with a toothpaste in my hand. The fratty guy behind me said loudly into the phone, "yeah, there's this girl ahead of me in line, buying toothpaste. She could be cute, but she's running around in this weird little muumuu. I'd really like to see her in some tight jeans and a halter top."

These are the guys whose words end up in the Ass-Hat Hall of Fame (working title), guys who have felt compelled to share their thoughts with the world and whose thoughts are so appalling that they deserve a larger audience. And now I want to hear yours. Send in your most absurd such experiences. And then I want to hear what you said to them. I'm sure you can do better than "That's funny, because I'd really like to see you dressed like a date-rapist whose mom buys his clothes - but, oh, wait, I already got my wish!" But hey, it was off the cuff.

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Kimberly Fairchild, an assistant professor of psychology at Manhattan College, says that catcalling "encourages women to look at themselves as body parts instead of as full, whole, intelligent human beings." (On a personal note, I keep my iPod turned up so loud when walking down the street that it's been years since I've noticed being catcalled.) She continues: "When a man catcalls you, you don't know if it will end at that point, or if it could escalate to assault." Here's my question: Although guys who shout out sexual things to women on the street are certainly assholes, are they automatically potential-criminals? Do women really think that some construction worker is gonna get off his scaffolding and remove his hardhat to assault them with his hard on?

Trust me, I'm not blaming the victim here at all, but I think that Fairchild's assessment that we should fear for our lives  or at least our vaginas  veers towards the extreme. Anyway, if tuning out harassers by turning up one's iPod is too passive for some, there's always projects like HollaBack, in which women take photos of street harassers and post them online.

Catcalling  Creepy Or A Compliment? [CNN]
Earlier: Catcalls We Can Get Behind