Question!

[Ruthie Holiday]

Can someone pa-lease explaing to me why guys today think it's ok to scream out random and almost always completly vulgar comments/suggestions/questions to girls when they walk by?
It seems like every day, when I walk into work I have to endure these comments. I've resorted to either calling David, my mom or a friend or I'll even pretendto be on the phone when I walk to my car so I can avoid it. It's funny, when you're on the phone they don't do it. Obviously it's ok to scream across an alleyway about how you want to do something hanous to my backside but if I'm on the phone..Whoa. That's crossin' the line, let her finish her phone call, theen we can continue to berate her. They wouldn't want to be seen as disrespectful, now would they.
I know we're in a different time and age but what happened to the days where men kept their obscene comments to themselves. Sure, guys still hold open doors (sometimes) but why most politeness stop there? I don't consider that being chivalrous either, by the way. I consider that common courtesy. Women should do it to.
You've got a penis and testosterone, you're going to think things. Fine. But despite what your friends tell you, we don't give a f***.
I don't claim to be a perfect little lady. I burp...a lot but in public, I try to keep it to a minimum and I always say excuse me. I don't scream at guys I think are good looking. I find it almost more annoying when girls do this. Why is that people today take the whole "I don't care what people think of me" mentality this far? Why is it ok for people to think that you have no respect, manners, common sense, common courtesy? I know that people think odd of me when I'm out and about due to mostly the tattoos but because of my hair, make up and dress. I do it myself and I shouldn't expect anything less really. I am comfortable enough in how I look AND the type of person I am to not care on that level. I know that no matter what, I am a decent human being with self-respect, respect for others(that deserve it) and I have basic manners and, although it's slight, I do have a sense of propriety. These guys and girls that do some of this stuff, yell at people, burp obnoxiously loud and don't say excuse me, get in fights(especially girls, ugh.) and just generally don't have any class out in public; they not only look odd (some of them) but they act like they don't no any better.

[Dottie Darling]

It's like you read my mind!

I feel like I can't walk half a block with out some rude comment from a guy. And I've not only had comments, I've had guys follow me. Thankfully nothing bad has ever come of it, eventually they get that I am completely uninterested and leave me be but it's still rude and creepy.

And as for the gals, I'm not entirely lady like my self but I am not rude and disrespectful either.
When I see girls act unlady like, for lack of a better term, I feel like they are degrading themselves and giving the rest of us a bad name too.

I understand that people don't care what others think of them, and they shouldn't, but it would be nice if people would mind their manners more often.