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These days, when men wolf-whistle at me, I thank them

Perhaps I should work on my striptease act to get them to do it more often

6 September 2014

9:00 AM

6 September 2014

9:00 AM

Incredible as it seems to me now, there was a time when a wolf whistle was annoying. A man would shout something approving from a scaffold and I would harrumph about my privacy being invaded, my gender not being respected, my dignity as an intelligent woman being violated. Then I got old and a wolf whistle made my day.

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