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Mind your language

What do ‘catcalls’ have to do with cats?

6 August 2022

9:00 AM

6 August 2022

9:00 AM

‘A law against catcalls?’ asked my husband sceptically. ‘What next, criminalising booing and hissing?’

He often gets the wrong end of the stick, but in this case I hardly blame him, for the press retailed widely Liz Truss’s resolve to make a law against catcalls and wolf-whistles. But to an older generation like my husband’s, catcalling is something to do with the theatre.

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