As a 20 year old female college student, I unfortunately can report that I have been catcalled before. I say unfortunately because honestly, it gave me a feeling of being used; like my body wasn’t my own and that the boys calling out to me thought I was there for their entertainment. So, of course when I see another girl being wrongly objectified by drooling boys, I feel the need to stand up and say something.
But in recent weeks, I have been looking at women’s magazines and feeling a sense of deja vu.
This was one of the head articles on Cosmopolitan’s snapchat the other week. There’s something wrong with this. We, as women, cannot be angry at men for whistling at our bodies if we do the same to them in print. “These peen deserve the gold” – are you kidding me? These men spent hours upon hours working on themselves to become better athletes and not to be ogled by others.
I said my piece when people judged some of the girls from the “Final Five” for their muscular bikini bodies, and I will stand up again for anyone objectifying bodies that aren’t their own.
All men and women, even the Olympians, deserve to have respect given to them and their body.
I admire a hot guy as much as the next girl, but there’s a huge difference between admiration and treating men and women like pieces of meat.